Category: Entertainment

This relic of the days of gay blades, wild oats, and horse-and-buggy romancing has changed considerably. Just as there are many young men who do not know what this traditional dinner is, and would not want one in any case, there are others, young executives and professional men, especially in the larger cities, who enjoy entertaining their friends in their apartment. They may cook and serve dinner themselves or have a part-time maid who cooks for special occasions, or a favorite caterer who prepares meals and brings them in and serves them.

This depends on the size of the guest list, whether there is a cook and waitress and other help, and whether the meal is served buffet or at the dinner table. With canapes and juices served before the meal, almost any favorite family menu is adaptable to this dinner or supper. One suggested menu is: roast veal or veal Provengale, baked stuffed potatoes or potato puff pudding, new peas or string beans, hot rolls, warm cherry tarts made with large black cherries or strawberry ice cream in a large meringue shell.

The veal and potato recipes are given here.

Usually the dinner or supper table reflects the engaged girl’s personal taste in flowers and color scheme. One gay Boston announcement dinner, which was the envy of all the girls who attended, was pink and white throughout in decoration. Pink organdy mats and matching napkins were used on a long mahogany table.

Three shallow, rose-pink antique glass bowls placed down the center of the table held low arrangements of pink roses, white tulips, babies’-breath, and white freesia. Pink-bordered white china was used for all courses except the dessert, which was served on rose-pink antique plates matching the flower bowls. Pink and white candles in tall silver and glass sticks were used on the table and elsewhere in the room.