Elegant Home-Made Buns

Elegant hamburgers and other sandwiches can be served to luncheon guests on buns that you make at home. See M-J's original recipe for Elegant Hamburger Buns on the Bread page at Elegant Cook.

Elegant White Cake

See Elegant Cook for M-J's Elegant White Cake Recipe.

M-J's Celery Soup, on the 'Net Since 2006

The Beautiful Radish

A most health-promoting vegetable, the refreshing, piquant radish is eaten in France (often at breakfast) with soft butter as a dip. The nutritious radish is a well-known liver-tonic.
©M-J de Mesterton

Rumford Aluminum-Free Baking Powder

The best aluminum-free baking powder is by Rumford. 

Elegant Cake with Royal Icing

Royal or "seven-minute" icing is cooked in the top level of a double-boiler. This classic, elegant frosting recipe contains four egg-whites, three cups of granulated white sugar, two tablespoons of light corn syrup (Karo brand), a dash of salt, and two-thirds-cup of water. An electric mixer is employed while water simmers underneath the bowl or double-boiler top. I use a Pyrex mixing bowl with handles, hooked up over a Creuset dutch oven. Beat the mixture until stiff peaks form. Frost a cooled cake with it five minutes after the icing has been removed from the cooker.

©M-J de Mesterton 2011 

Stainless Lux Juicer

The affordable way to juice oranges, grapefruit, lemons and limes: Stainless Lux

Bols Liquor, 1961

Photograph of 1961 Magazine Advert by M-J de Mesterton

Elegant Scotch Advert 1961

Photographed from Frau und Film by M-J de Mesterton

Elegant Apple-Ginger Cocktail

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