The New Movie Magazine (Jan-Sep 1935)

Give Them a Good BREAKFAST says NANCY CARROLL Hunger is the best seasoning at Sunday morning parties in Hollywood where guests arrive after a brisk ride or set of tennis Choice of Grapefruit juice Tomato juice Tomato juice mixed with sauerkraut juice Pineapple juice with a dash of lemon juice Sausages and scrambled eggs Scrambled eggs with tomatoes Calves brains and scrambled eggs Creamed kidneys Kippered herrings French rolls and crusty bread Butter Apricot jam Coffee THAT is Nancy Carroll's menu for breakfast. But first you must ask your guests to come on Sunday morning, after they have spent an hour or so riding or playing tennis. "That," says Miss Carroll, "is the best time to give a party, because your guests come in feeling top of the morning and literally starving. Good honest hunger is, after all, the best seasoning. "The fruit juice or tomato juice must be served as soon as the guests are assembled — as one might serve a cocktail before dinner. Then serve something really substantial. Creamed kidneys or calves brains are sure to please some of your guests, but if you are only serving one dish scrambled eggs is a better choice. But be sure to have country style scrambled eggs, al] swished together and fluffy. To begin with you should break the eggs in a bowl and mix up until yolks and whites are well broken. Then add just a little rich cream. A little chopped seallion or mild onion adds to the flavor. Melt a little butter in a frying pan and when hot, but not too hot, turn the eggs into the pan and cook very carefully so that the eggs are evenly done, light and fluffy. Turn out on a warmed platter and serve at once, with sausages if you like or with calves brains, or grilled tomatoes." As everyone knows, Hollywood goes in for breakfast parties in a large way, preferably Sunday breakfast parties, and according to Nancy Carroll there is much to be said in favor of this sort of entertaining anywhere. Men are especially Country style scrambled eggs made with cream and minced scallions. French rolls and bread served with butter and apricot jam. keen about this sort of party, and at Miss Carroll's Sunday breakfasts in Hollywood they usually appear in riding clothes after an early morning's canter. "If your guests aren't in the habit of riding," Miss Carroll advises, "it's a good plan to have them take some sort of outdoor exercise before they arrive. A mile or so walk from their homes to vours will do. Then you will be sure that they are really enjoying the good food you have prepared." A breakfast party, in Miss Carroll's opinion, is a very good form of hospitality for the young woman who keeps house without a maid. Because in the house with many servants, formal service is dispensed with at this meal. The important things to remember are to have cold dishes, such as fruit and fruit juices, well chilled, and to have hot dishes piping hot. Platters of eggs, sausages, etc., may be placed on the table and passed about by the guests. There should be one cream and sugar service to every four or five guests and a plentiful supply of well chilled butter. Coffee may be made in a percolator on the table or brought in piping hot in attractive coffee pots. For the benefit of guests who take their breakfast in the traditional French manner, you may serve jugs of boiling hot milk to use instead of cream; and for those with a preference for a thoroughly English style breakfast you should be prepared with an attractive tea service. And don't forget piping hot oatmeal or other cereal. Table fittings should be bright and gay. Miss Carroll prefers French peasant china in bright blue, red and yellow design. And for table doilies and napkins, coarse linen with a red or blue border or check. For flowers she would choose, what we would call the "old fashioned" sort, — tulips and daffodils in the Spring, daisies, bachelor buttons and other field flowers in the Summer, with zinnias or chrysanthemums in the Autumn. TOWER iiulr:m 2iKAA^M£fl^^u^H^H^^^K^^^M^^B E DEPARTMENT • 34 The New Movie Magazine, March, 1935