An aristocrat among seasoners is the Creole spice- and herb-scented vinegar made for seventy-five years by the A. M. Richter Sons Company. It adds flavor excitement when used to season salads, meats, fish, and vegetables. So many the ways to put it to work, in marinades, soups, and sauces. It does something most special for a pot of baked beans. No sharpness as you might imagine, but smooth, a blend of three vinegards, cider, malt, and the distilled, mellowed by aging in wood. The elusive flavor which is typically Creole results from the use of certain French herbs known in Creole kitchens. A mail-order job, two pints ＄1.50 postpaid, address A. M. Richter Sons Company, Dept. G-2, Manitowoc, Wisconsin. No C.O.D.'s, please!
Always a new mustard sauce taking grocery-shelf space and finding ready welcome. A new one to cross our palate is made by Mrs. John Brodie of Elmira, New York. The look of this sauce proclaims it homemade, so does the taste. A combination of vegetable oil and vinegar thickened with fresh eggs, richened with butter. Onions add flavor, and mustard seeds, turmeric and other spices.
Mrs. Brodie makes only a gallon at a batch, so it is homemade in earnest. Hot or cold, it's smooth over fish, savory in salads, delicious on meats, a perfect base spread for the hors-d'oeuvre sandwich. The dressing was a blue-ribbon winner in the condiment class at the Chemung County Fair last season and sells in the Elmira stores—to name two, the Mark Twain Food Mart and Snyder's. It is handled in New York by B. Altman. Or you may order it direct from the Brodie Packing Company, 913 West Gray Street, Elmira, New York, 33 cents for 5 ounces, 3 bottles for ＄1, plus postage.
Belgian biscuits are back. Previous to 1939, these came in by the thousands of cases, rich butter cookies, a production of Brussels made by the Grande Biscuiterie Royale. Ten kinds of crisp cookies we counted in the 3-pound assortment. Crumbly, rich in the mouth, but not overly sweet, the type of tidbit we like best with tea. Extra good the thin, bisquelike layers put together with butter-cream fillings, these wrapped in red and green foil to point up their importance. Lady fingers are in the box and a chocolate-sandwich type. But all rich and good and nicely fresh, kept so in the airtight tin container, price for 3 pounds ＄3.25 at B. Altman, Fifth Avenue at 34th Street, New York City, also at Charles and Company, 340 Madison Avenue, and the Abraham & Straus store in Brooklyn.
Still another Belgian biscuit firm is shipping, this the century-old house of Jules Des Trooper of Furnes, sending the gaufrette au beurre. These butter-fragrant wafers are sealed into tins, 50 to a box, the weight 1 pound, 2 ounces, price ＄2.83. The waffles are oval-shaped, each about 4 inches long and on the sturdy side, no frail and gossamer thing like the gaufrette of the French; this one has substance. A prize-wimming wafer at the food exhibitions in Europe, winning medals in Paris, Brussels, and Ghent, the recipe a hand-down from father to son. Selling in New York City at Enoch's Delicatessen, 872 Madison Avenue, Maison Glass, 15 East 47th Street, and Old Denmark, 135 East 57th Street.
Cela Trix and Cara Trix, twin-sister crackers, are announced by the Devonsheer Melba Corporation. Stamp-sized, these tidbits, made with a special rice flour, very crisp, light in texture, one cracker flavored with celery seeds, the other with caraway. The wafers come foil-bagged and box-packed to insure their crisp keeping, 4 ounces, 49 cents, distribution throughout the country.
Preserves and pickles from the Arthur Bauer Plantation are palate-tempters of the first order. Artichoke relish for one, like a mustard pickle, only more crisp. Also for mail order an apricot-pineapple marmalade, a fresh peach preserve, a sea food and game sauce, a mustard and vegetable relish, an orange marmalade, and a fresh peach chutney, every last item passing the taste test with a blue-ribbon grade. The assortment of 6, or 6 of any one item, ＄5.75, postage prepaid east of the Mississippi, 75 cents extra west of the big river. Address Arthur Bauer, Walterboro, South Carolina.
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