The Saturday Sip: August 19, 2023
Your etiquette tip, quote and an Emily Post Cookbook recipe to start your weekend off right!
The Tip
If you’ve been asked to wear specific attire to a gathering it’s best to abide. By doing so you are participating well as a guest to an event you made the choice to attend. If you don’t appreciate or are not willing to wear the requested attire it’s best not to accept the invitation. If you cannot afford the requested attire, it’s perfectly okay to borrow what you need or rent it. There are more options than ever now for getting the right attire within your budget.
The Recipe
Emily’s Cayenne Cheeses are delightfully easy and just as tasty.
Emily Post’s Cookbook, 1951, pg. 295
Cayenne Cheeses
Time: 35 minutes plus 1 hour chilling time
Serves: 4
Ingredients
1/4 lb. butter
1 cup flour
1 1/4 cups grated Parmesan cheese
1/8 tsp. cayenne
1/8 tsp. salt
Directions
Cream the butter and rub it into the flour. Then mix in the cheese and seasonings. Instead of the cayenne, 15 drops of Tabasco sauce may be used, and if this or the cayenne is mixed into the water now to be added, it will eliminate any danger of any single crumb having an uncomfortable concentration of the very hot cayenne or Tabasco. Mix in enough water to make all into a paste. Chill in refrigerator. Roll it to a thickness of 3/16 inch or less and cut into fingers 1/2 inch wide by 3 1/2 to 4 inches long. Place on an ungreased baking sheet and bake in a 375 to 400℉. oven till lightly browned, about 18 to 20 minutes. Serve hot.
NOTE: For appetizers, cut rolled paste into 3/4-inch squares or rounds a little smaller than a twenty-five-cent piece.
The Quote
“The truth is that passing a college-entrance examination is nothing as compared with passing an examination as an adorable and infallibly wise mother or father.” - Emily Post
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Thank you for spending a bit of your day with us. We hope you’ve enjoyed the Saturday Sip today! Will you try Emily’s Cayenne Cheeses? We’d love to hear about it in the comments below. Not a Community Member? The Monday thread is open to all, we’d love to hear your thoughts there.
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Until then,
Lizzie and Dan
Emily Post circa 1920. Ever so elegant.
I appreciate that note on being able to decline the invitation. I wear suits and ties daily; wearing shorts or jeans in almost any public place would be mortifying for me! As someone with Asperger's, I take great comfort from my rules and systems being adhered to unwaveringly. I don't particularly like the show as autistic representation, personally, but imagine Sheldon Cooper from The Big Bang Theory with the "my seat" thing. That's how I am with suiting. Breaking those rules is deeply distressing for me; hence, I'll probably decline the invitation. I'm just glad that's an option in etiquette.