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If the premise allows and you want to meet New 2008 fully armed - it is possible to arrange traditional новогодняй a celebratory table. The starched white cloth with the smoothed down fold which is passing along a table for this purpose is required. Under a cloth it is possible to put a dense fabric - the cloth will lay down more exactly, knock of plates will be more silent, the ware will fight less.

Receding from a table edge approximately on 2 sm, we will place small table plates, and on them - snackbars. The distance between the next plates should be 60-80 the Plug see is put to the left of a plate, small horns upwards; a knife - on the right, the perfected party to a plate. If it is some devices, they are displayed as giving of dishes: the earlier the dish, the further from a plate the device moves. Пирожковая the plateau is put before a snackbar, with small displacement to the left. Beautifully combined napkins put a plate on a snackbar. Wine-glasses, glasses, wine glasses (depending on submitted drinks) are put ahead of a plate snackbar.

Candles is an obligatory attribute of a meeting of New year. It is very good, if it is a lot of them and they different. If suddenly in New Year's vanity have forgotten to buy decorative candles, it is possible to transform usual candles into New Year's "magic". The most simple way is to twist a candle on a spiral with a bright strip of a streamer or a foil. It is possible to paint candles gouache in the liked colour and to shower with a multi-coloured crumb from the rests of last year's candles.

It is possible to heat up also a candle in a vessel placed in a pan with boiling water (only to do it it is necessary cautiously not to be scalded). After the candle will fuse, it is possible to add colour ink in the received weight, to mix, slightly to cool and blind a candle of the necessary form. Certainly, it is necessary to consider, that without a match the candle will not burn.

If it is a lot of candles it is a lot of and candlesticks... The Candlestick too it is possible and it is necessary to make independently. For small candles it is possible to use a shell of walnuts as candlesticks. Empty половинку shells fill with plasticine, in it fix a small candle, and round it - the dried up flowers. The received candlestick by means of the same plasticine or glue for stability attach to a slice of a dense paper. It is possible to decorate with such minicandlesticks the device of each visitor, having arranged them near to a plate.

For a composition from small multi-coloured candles it is necessary to take small clay мисочку. On several drops of the fused paraffin to fix in it 1-3 candles, to pour in a bowl cold water and to fill space round candles with the live or dried colours on short stalks.

The warm playful flame of candles will replace bright light of a chandelier. Only it is necessary to remember, that the candle is open fire. It is impossible to place candles on a fur-tree; in candlesticks they should stand steadily. It is not necessary to light candles during children's костюмированного a holiday, and in general, Candles should be lighted, when all have a little got tired of impressions and would like to have a rest and dream at flickering light of a New Year's candle.

Fruit moves in vases. Grapes need to be divided into small brushes, and oranges it is possible to cut circles. Mineral water, lemonade in bottles, juice and drinks in jugs place from two parties, is closer to the table ends. Cold snack place in regular intervals, it was convenient to take them all. It is necessary to put the device in each New Year's dish for раскладывания. An ornament of New Year's dishes - the big art. Approach to this question very seriously - New 2007 in your life will be only once.

Last stroke of celebratory laying новгоднего a table - winter bouquets in the centre or along the edges of a table. They will give to a table a celebratory, New Year's kind. And if there is no possibility to place all visitors for one table, to the aid will come a table-buffet. Its name says that it is covered as buffet, that is without sedentary places. At such table set of advantages. It releases visitors from long sitting, gives a freedom in choosing of the interlocutor, facilitates master's duties as each visitor himself disposes both ware, and an entertainment.

To arrange буфетный a table it is more convenient at a wall, it is possible near to a New Year tree. The cloth is required wide: its edges should not reach a floor only on 5 such table see For convenience it is possible to make "step", using for eminences empty sliding ящички or the strong boxes covered with the big napkins. New Year's dishes on a table are grouped in sectors (fish, meat, vegetables) or circles: more close to a table edge - snack, and in the heart of a table - the second circle - cookies, cakes, fruit and sweet dishes. Drinks can be placed in jugs or at once to pour in glasses. Pure ware and napkins take places on the table ends

Ornament of New Year's dishes

Greens of a celery, fennel, parsley, the onions, used for an ornament of salads and sandwiches, do not only the dishes prepared by us are more tasty, but also creates together with a decorative element of vegetables certain effect, allocating them and doing more colourfully and more appetizing.

Lemon, a figured knife to make cuts on a peel, and then to cut its thin slices. A lemon it is possible to decorate sandwiches with fish canned food, smoked fish, fried meat, also for this purpose, it is possible to use and an orange.

Tomatoes cut circles, segments or звездообразно on two parts. In last variant a teaspoon from the middle take out pulp and fill deepening by green peas. It is possible to make a fly agaric of abrupt egg and a tomato. In this case a slice of fresh carrots a tomato attach to the cut end of egg.

Carrots are used for an ornament of salads and the sandwiches, slightly boiled in salty water to which it is added a few vinegar. From it cut out фунтики, balls, спиральки, ribbons, брусочки, cubes.

Radish for an ornament slice, more often the special form squeeze out from it цветки for an ornament of salads and sandwiches. The hemisphere of a carrot or a cucumber a match without a head (or шпажкой) attach to a flower made of a radish. As decorate not only salads, but also dishes with sandwiches.

Mushrooms, on an ornament go both boiled and marinaded. Salads and the sandwiches decorated small боровиками, field mushrooms, лисичками or маслятами beautifully look.

Egg for an ornament cut on segments a vegetable knife, on two "flowers" - a sharp knife, on mugs — special яйцерезкой. At an ornament of salads and sandwiches it is possible to press a pea of black pepper into the middle of a circle of egg, to strew its red pepper or рубленой greens. It is possible to make of egg and a tomato small грибочки.

Fruit and berries is used for an ornament both fresh, and marinaded. Clusters of a red currant, slices of a pear, plum, paradise apples, grapes, половинки a tangerine, orange circles are not only a beautiful ornament for sandwiches and salads, but also tasty seasoning. Small fruit, for example, a strawberry or grapes, it is possible обваливать in sugar for an ornament.