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 HOLIDAY TABLE DECORATIONS

"Christmas Eve Midnight Supper"
  

   

"For this festive occasion have a chafing dish arranged ready for use, a cut-glass punch bowl and ladle, a Santa Claus in a sleigh drawn by reindeer. Asparagus, maiden hair or other ferns, to represent a forest, will supply further decoration. An ideal Christmas Eve supper may comprise caviar sandwiches, devilled oysters, creamed sweetbreads, cold boned turkey, lettuce salad, cheese and coffee. A claret punch, made of claret, sherry, dices of cucumber, mint, lemon, orange and other fruits, may be served in the glass punch bowl."

FROM: The Delineator, 1903

 


 

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