Any festive table is rich in various dishes and drinks. But many housewives do not know how to properly serve them. Therefore, we will tell you about how to properly serve dishes, drinks, fruits, berries and confectionery. This will help you stay on top and make a good impression.
As a rule, next to the hostess's place of celebration, put another stall with clean plates and with all the necessary appliances to keep all the time from their place.
From the kitchen, food is always taken out in ready-made form. On the left side of the table, such dishes are served, from which the guest himself must transfer the food to his plate. On the right side there are dishes that are spread out on a plate. If you serve dishes with sauce, the sauce boat is held in the right hand, and the plate in the left. Warm and hot (soups and warm salads) served first.
At various official receptions and banquets, the dishes are usually served on trays and placed in the center of the table. In the case when the participants themselves pass the dishes to each other, it should be done from left to right, so that a neighbor can take a dish from the left side. It is worth considering that the proposed dish should be brought at the level of the plate or as close as possible, so that it is easier to re-arrange.
Soup is served in a special soup bowl with a ladle, an abulion in special cups, which are eaten with a dessert spoon. Hot snack should be served in a dish, ceramic pot or refractory bowl, in which it was cooked.
Meat served with small sliced slices with garnish, vegetables and salad.
If you are feeding a large fish, you should pre-clean it from the bones. In case this dish is served entirely, it usually takes center stage. Different sauces, side dishes or potatoes to fish in a separate bowl. You should not garnish her with fried potatoes, it's better to boil. Before each sitting guest there should be a small piece of metal, to the right of them they put a knife or a spatula (for the separation of bones), the left one - a fork. Sometimes two forks are served, where the right fork is used to separate the bones, but it is customary to eat the fish with a fork and knife. To the note: a good fish to serve a lemon.
On the right side, drinks are poured, the right hand holds the bottle and pours into a glass on the table. Tea or coffee is served in hot water. Without loud sounds, drink a sip in small sips (do not forget that trying to drink with a spoon is indecent). From the table, the calyx is lifted together with a bastard with his left hand, then with his right hand take a cup and bring it to his lips, the saucer is left in his left hand until the drink is drunk. According to the rules of the etiquette, the spoon is put only in a glass made of glass, it is not put in porcelain. You should not mix sugar for long and noiselessly, then leave a spoon for napkinchetke or for a snack plate. In the event that tea or coffee is added, the cup is raised with a saucer. Sugar bowl on the table set with a special or sovochkom, lump sugar - with tweezers.
Fruits decorate the table very much. But to learn how to properly teach them and eat is also an art. If a fork and knife are served for fruit, they should not be eaten by hand. Next to the plate put a saucer, which put the twigs, seeds, seeds or peel. Apples and pears are cut into halves or quarts and eat them with a fork. Oranges are cleaned with a knife, mandarins are hand-woven, grapes are held with the left hand, and the right berry is torn off. Plums break in half. Apricots are cut with a knife, cleaned and eaten in small pieces. Cherries and cherry-cherries, along with twigs in small plates, are additionally placed next to a dessert plate and a teaspoon (it is placed on the right). A branch from the cherry is put in an additional container, a bone is spit out on a spoon and put together with a twig. Strawberries should be served peeled from greens. A slice of watermelon should be freed from scrapes and put on the fork in the mouth.
Confectionery such as cake or pastry with a cream is drained with a dessert fork or spoon, and dry baked goods are eaten by hand, biting off small pieces. Various fat donuts are cut into a plate with a dessert fork and eaten with a stick.
Candies without a wrapper are offered to guests in a bowl or a box. Fruit and marmalade are placed in a separate vase with a dessert spoon and spread over the bread with a knife.
During the feast, all used appliances and plates are collected with a pile, coming from the right side, while the tray is kept in the left hand. Do not put the plates in a pile if there are instruments in them. All forks, knives, scoops and spoons are placed on the tray next to the used dishes.