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How to Serve the Dinner

Put your meat on a large platter and lay the vegetables all around it, except the cabbage and beets, which should be served in separate dishes. The beets should have the skins rubbed off them with a cloth and should be cut in halves and put in a deep dish with a sauce of melted butter, salt, pepper and half a cupful of vinegar; this sauce should be hot. Take half the cabbage and some of the potatoes and mash them up together and season with a little cream, some butter and salt and pepper, and make in a mound like mashed potatoes. This is delicious; the entire dinner will be found most appetizing. Provide pepper sauce, tomato catsup, higdon, and any other pickles you like; serve tea as a beverage. This is a recipe for a New England dinner, which needs only to be prepared according to directions to be greatly enjoyed by all who have the good fortune to partake of it. It is very often prepared with one chicken added to the meat and removed when tender, or when the vegetables are added. The chicken gives all a delicious flavor. "DINNER FROM THE BIBLE."

Spread a cloth of blue, and put thereon the dishes and the spoons, and the bowls, with the bread in the basket (Num. 4:6; Lev. 8:31); salt without prescribing how much, and oil in a cruse (Ezra 7:22; I Kings 17:12). Bright shining of a candle giveth light (Luke 11:26). Tell them who are bidden. I have prepared my dinner (Matt. 22:4). They are strong of appetite (Isaiah 7:11). Let us eat and be merry (Luke 15:23). The feast is made for laughter, wine makes merry (Eccl. 10:19). Yea, hear all kinds of music (Dan. 3:5). Grace. - Give us this day our daily bread (Matt. 6:11).