Open House Festivities and Festive Treats
This piece celebrates holiday entertaining with a focus on open houses. It suggests decorating around a punch bowl, evergreen wreaths, and colorful ornaments, plus fresh flowers in plastic tubes. It endorses Egg Nog Delight as economical and tasty and offers cookie jar fillers like Flaky Meringue Cookies and Honey Drops with festive coconut options.
FLAKY MERINGUE COOKIES RECIPE INSTRUCTION
A recipe for Nut Meringue Cookies with a dough of flour salt and butter, lemon juice and rind, and a nut meringue filling. Form small dough balls, flatten, add filling, roll, seal, bake 15 minutes at 375 degrees, cool on rack, and dust with confectioners sugar while warm.
Honey Drop Cookies and Nut Meringue Filling
A recipe fragment detailing nut meringue filling with egg whites and sugar, then a honey drop cookie dough with butter sugar eggs flour and spices. Cookies are shaped as spoons or drops, brushed with egg white, colored coconut, baked 8 to 12 minutes, cooled on a rack.
Cranberry Punch Recipe with Spices and Vodka Option
A simple punch combines 1 quart cranberry juice 1 cup orange juice 2 quarts water 1 cup lemon juice 1 stick cinnamon 34 cup sugar 5 6 cloves. Boil, strain, and serve hot or cold. Add 1 jigger vodka per cup if desired.
Egg Nog Delight and California Dip Recipe Fragments
Egg nog mixture with egg yolks sugar salt and milk heated to coat spoon then cooled and folded with stiff egg whites and vanilla, chilled four hours topped with nutmeg and optional rum. Also includes California Dip with sour cream onion soup mix and sweet relish blended into milk and cream.
Hamburger Hors Doeuvres
Recipe fragment describes mixing chopped beef salt pepper and California Dip into tiny meat balls. Brown in butter and serve on picks with Sweet Relish Dip.
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By Marion Latzko
Hamburger Hors D’oeuvres