heir left
and right. With the steaks serve French fried potatoes and the Vienna
bread or rolls, the very hard crusty kind. For the second course serve
cheese, a rarebit on hard crackers, or any strong cheese. Serve ale or
beer with this supper and no sweets. In buying the steaks the chef will
have to pay more attention to the quality of the meat, than size and
appearance. The steaks should be broiled over coals and served piping
hot in their own gravy. The second menu includes one hot dish, a rabbit
fricasse or stew. Any chef (especially German) can prepare what is
called "Hassenpfeffer stew." This is rabbit soaked in vinegar and cooked
with certain herbs and is liked by Bohemians. With this serve potato
salad and cold dishes, Swiss cheese on rye bread, Westphalian ham,
Frankfurters, Bologna, cottage cheese with chopped chives, dill pickles,
Spanish onions sliced in vinegar, French mustard, radishes, spring
onions, pickled beets and pickled eggs, pickled herring. Serve black
coffee, beer or ale with this supper. Have the sandwiches in baskets and
the condiments in the four-part dishes, everything on the table and no
waiters save for the liquors. Sardines on toast will make a good first
course or appetizer for this dinner. If one has a few pieces (violin,
cello, bass viol, flute) to play Hungarian airs during the dinner it
will please the guests. The table should be bare of cloths of any sort.
Arrange as a center decoration a miniature prize fight. Have a small
platform roped off with silk cords, toy figures of pugilists labeled,
and all the accessories. For each guest a toy figure of a hunter,
football player, golfer, prize fighter or any desired athlete could be
used. On the back of the figure hang something which will refer to some
particular fad or joke on the member. For instance, if one has met with
an accident in hunting put a bit of porous plaster on the back of the
figure. If one has won a trophy, hang a tiny loving cup or stein, etc.
In place of the toasts try this: Arrange with a man at the telephone
exchange to ring up the telephone in the house every ten or fifteen
minutes during the dinner. Ask one man to answer the 'phone and carry on
a fake conversation taking off different members of the dinner,
incorporating the question in his answer. This will keep the crowd
roaring. A man with a megaphone describing a race or fight will keep the
crowd in a good humor.

THE DUTCH SUPPER.

The plebian Dutch supper