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HORS D' OEUVRES, CANAPES,
SHRUBS, COCKTAILS, and SOUP
Family Weekly Cookbook
MELANIE DE PROFT. Food Editor
Although Shrimp and
Artichoke Potage can
be an appealing meal
i in itself, it is a fine
choice for the first
course of a summer
time menu.
Shrimp and Artichoke Potage
2 tablespoons butter or margarine
Vi cup chopped green onion
Vi teaspoon thyme, crushed
2 10-os. cans condensed tomato-rice soup
2 soup cans water
1 cup cooked artichoke hearts, cut in
pieces
Seasoned salt
1 enp cooked shrimp pieces
2 teaspoons lemon juice
1. Heat butter in a large saucepan; add the
onion and thyme and cook about 5 min., stir
ring mixture occasionally.
2. Stir in the soup and water until welt blend
ed. Sprinkle the artichokes generously with the
seasoned salt; add with the shrimp to the soup.
3. Heat thoroughly; do not boil. Remove from
heat and stir in the lemon juice. Serve hot.
0 servings
Shrubs
Fill 4- to 6-oi. glasses about a full with icy
cold fruit juice (or a mixture of juices). If
desired, before adding sherbet, spark with a
dash of sparkling water. Float a smalt scoopful
of sherbet (complementary or contrasting in
flavor) on each serving.
Double Orange Shrub Orange juice with
orange sherbet.
Pineapple Shrub Unsweetened pineapple juice
with lime sherbet.
Apricot Shrub) Apricot nectar with lemon or
pineapple sherbet.
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Deviled Toast Wings
2 4'j-oz. csns deviled ham
cup mayonnaise
1 cup chopped celery
Vi cup chopped pecans
Vi cup chopped raisins
12 slices white bread
Softened butter
1. Mix the first five ingredients in a bowl and
chill thoroughly.
2. Trim crusts from bread, butter lightly on
both sides, and cut each slice diagonally in
half. Put each piece into a lVfexl-in. muffin-pan
well so that points are up.
3. Toast in a 300 F oven for about 20 min., or
until golden brown. Remove to cooling racks
and cool completely.
4. Fill each "wing" with deviled ham mixture.
t dm. "wings"
Sea Food Cocktail Sauce Caribbee
I cup mayonnaise
Vi cup dairy sour cream
1 tablespoon lemon Juice
1 teaspoon snchovy paste
Vt cup snipped water cress
Vi tesnpoon tsrrsgon leaves, crushed
teaspoon Tabasco
1 clove garlic, crashed in a garlic press
1. Rlend the mayonnaise, sour cream, lemon
juice, and anchovy paste together in a bowl.
Stir in the remaining ingredients. Chill the sauce
thoroughly.
2. Spoon a chilled cooked sea food mixture of
lobster, clams, shrimp, and crab meat into
chilled sherbet glasses or sea shells lined with
a small lettuce leaf. Top generously with sauce
and garnish with sprigs of water cress. Serve
with crisp crackers. About iVt cups sauce
Tomato-Lime Cocktail on the Rocks
Blend together 3'i cups tomato juice, 2 table
spoons lime juice. 1 teaspoon Worcestershire
sauce, 8 drops Tabasco, Vi teaspoon Angostura
aromatic bitters, V4 teaspoon seasoned salt, and
4 teaspoons sugar. Chill thoroughly. Serve over
ice cubes in 6-oz. glasses. Garnish with thin
lime slices. About 1 quart
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