Evening Star Newspaper, May 18, 1930, Page 83

Mrs. James M. Doran, sponsor of the non-alcoholic cocktail, which has gain- ed favor with many Washington. society matrons, receives requests from Maine to Texas for recipes for her famous fresh-fruit concoctions. i 'BY NELL RAY CLARKE. “I always serve a tangy fruit because I find that it seems to that awkward little pause,” one o teered. «“But why serve anything at all?” the women a and_proud thing. I don’t see why I should.” «“But why not?” immediately spoke unwittingly inaugu . wives from Maine to Texas and from Florida The ever-present discussion £ the American housewife -cocktail-con- scious. To serve or not to serve has been for her a momentous question. p set all the women talking. The idea was stimu~ lating, even if the cocktail wasn’t. An enter- gfl I8 leg [ttt l THE SUNDAY ‘STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MAY 18, 19%0. “Kickless” Cocktails for Washington * How the Innocuous Recipes of the Federal Prohibition Commissioner’s Wife Have Been Taken Up by the Social Elite of the National Cdpital——]nnocen_t Appe- tizers Without Alcohol. water concoctionggDelmonico glasses, hollow-stem champagne glasses and ‘Bohemian wine cups can proudly come down frem the shelf to bear a delicious mead made of the juices of limes, lemons, pineapples, grapges, com«- bined- with ginger ale and made fra- grant with mint leaves. A frosted - edge can be obtained by rupming a cut lime or lemon around the edges of the glasses and dipping them in powdered sugar. The particular cocktail with which Mrs. Doran initiated the popular kick- less-cocktail movement has already - become well known. She makes no Many hostesses in the Capital City have found the fruit-juice cocktail an answer to their problem of how to observe the low end at the same time relieve the - ewkwardness of that wait before dinner ing alcoholic Since that time she has served orange juice at her formal dinners. - Mrs. Porter Dale, wife of the Senator from Vermont and at the present time president of congressional club, who is famous charged T, Names which are connected making 3 e t of the prohibition law Joom' of course, among other famous contributors Among them are the wife of Senator Jones of Washington, famous as the of the “five-and-ten” enforcement law; Mrs. Seymour Lowman, wife of the Assistant fruit juices. Very few, if any, of the well known women who have contributed their favorite recipes to T -1 Mrs. John Henderson, famous W ash- ington hostess, long ago abandoned the serving of cocktails at her formal din- ners and substituted orange juice. _them: To one small bottle of concentrated red she adds lemon, sliced thin, and half a cupful of chopped fresh mint. - : every side the housekeeper is being made aware of the popularity of the soft-drink cocktail. One hotel in New York City lists 19 varieties of such appetizers on its pre-dinner drink list, and the cafes and even the tearooms are beginning to add them to their menus. At one famous hotel in the Middle West & chilled tomato-juice cocktail was offered patrons, and it immediately grew with astonish- the grapefruit-juice cocktail and the sauerkraut- juice cocktail, both of which now have a great T gié?i!“g f *HE hostess who wishes her frult cocktafls to be delicious will prepare them shortly before dinner. We often wonder why the fruit punch medutmepnrtif-knmle-orch-'- acterless. The reason is that the houséwife, who wanted to get her work done as early as pose " sible, prepared those fruit juices in the morn- ing, long before she was to serve them late in the afternoon or evening. They naturally have ng sBiisd :%i isilig- ) 1