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Ornamental Stands for Cold Dishes

Such articles as white galantines, jardiniere salad and whole fishes covered with mayonaise have to be raised on tall stands, or they make no show at all on a set table, and an ornamental set-off is as valuable to a homely-looking dish as to some other homely things. A common glass cake stand can be so coated with white wax, or parrafin, and so covered with white wax flowers of a sort easily made, and artificial leaves, that it can never be recognized for what it is, and a white galantine seems very much at home on that sort of stand. But the better expedient is to get a carpenter to make some stands of wood, something like glass cake stands, that is, consisting of a stem set in a broad base, but of oval shape, the top being a tray with a hoop-like rim to receive and hold the large meat platter.

These cabinet-work stands being neatly made of white wood and smooth, are next to be coated over with parrafin melted and applied with a brush, then smoothed by holding before the fire.

There are moulds to be had, imported from Paris, made of type metal and close fitting in which may be cast classical figures in white wax, sea-horses, dragons and the like to be set around the base of your stands, and heads and faces and birds for the ends of the platters.

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