DIRECTIONS FOR SERVING SUPPER.
Serve bouillon and cream soup in cups. "Serve creamed oysters in prettily decorated paper cups set on cabbage leaves so arranged as to look like flower petals around cup.
Serve chicken and lobster salad with cheese straws on a plate.
Serve mashed potatoes in a large bowl. Prepare as follows:
Allow one potato to three persons; mash and press into a deep bowl; when cold, press into potato a ring, thimble, key, and dime. Each guest takes a tablespoonful of potato. The guest getting ring will be married in a year; the one finding thimble will never marry, the one finding dime will be rich, or will receive a legacy; the key means a journey.
Water ices follow the potatoes. Water ice in pumpkin form should be colored orange color; ear of corn should be cream-colored ice with pistache-colored husks turned back toward end displaying ear of corn. If you do not care for ices in fancy fashion, prepare sherbet glass as follows: Fill glass half full of sliced oranges, pineapples, and bananas; cover with powdered sugar and a little sherry, finish with a layer of delicate lemon ice completely covering the front. Smooth top until level.
Serve the Fortune Cake after ices. Fortune Cake may be made same as gold cake and a ring pressed in bottom after it is baked, or it may be made of bran and water so that it is hard and stiff, and the ring be mixed into it. The whole
