Serving the New Year's table - laying the New Year's table 2012
2012 in the Eastern calendar is the year of the Black Water Dragon. Meet the New Year is best with the family, because the Dragon loves tradition - and love, fun, good humor, humor will become your companions for the following year. Give people around, relatives, loved ones love and care, warmth and joy, that all this comes back to you tenfold!
We all want very much that on this wonderful night everything was wonderful, unusual and a little magical. And to bring such notes to the holiday will help a beautiful serving of the New Year's table, which, despite its traditional character, can be original if one follows the canons of the Eastern calendar.
Tablecloth and napkins
Tablecloth is the "white sheet" on which the whole culinary and New Year's fairy tale is written. The dragon will favorably refer to the presence on the tablecloth, napkins or dishes of yellow, green, red and black colors. For example, looks great on the table a large green table cloth, and on top of it - another, smaller, but already multi-colored.
You can fasten a strip of shiny foil on the edge of the tablecloth or decorate it with snowflakes, bows or serpentine.
Unusually and intriguingly will look at the tablecloth glass, laid in the middle of the table, under which you can put a beautiful silk handkerchief, a scattering of golden confetti or a photo collage.
If you do not have a colored tablecloth, then the traditional white, well-ironed, will be quite appropriate. But do not forget that the tablecloth and napkins should be either of the same color, or of the same fabric.
You can pick up yellow, green or red napkins placed under the appliances to the white table cloth, they will give an elegant look to the table. In addition to tissue napkins on the table should be paper. The sale comes before the holiday wipes, specially designed in the New Year theme. They are usually placed in a napkin, and cloth napkins, beautifully bandaged with ribbon, serpentine or rain, can be expanded into snack plates. Wonderful looking napkins inserted into special rings. If you do not have such rings, then use ordinary cornice ones, or make them yourself from copper wire, strung beads on it.
Candles
The table setting for the New Year can not do without candles. Scented candles on the table should not be placed, they can be lit on a shelf, window sill or coffee table. But candles in high candlesticks will fit into the serving very harmoniously. The glass cup or vase with water and floating in it one or several candles will look original and romantic, especially if golden stars, colorful beads or decorative stones are poured into the water.
Another version of the composition with candles does not need candlesticks or vases. You can do with an ordinary plate, you just need to choose more carefully. Candles for such a composition are desirable to take long and thin, to strengthen them on a plate with melted wax. Among them, you can lay spruce twigs, heather, small fur-tree toys, bows, bumps.
Tableware
Table setting for the New Year - this is exactly the case when the servant takes out the ceremonial service, usually inherited from the grandmother or donated to the wedding. The importance of the moment depends on the frequency of using the service. If you get it once or twice a year - is it not miracles?
First, large flat plates are placed on the table at a distance of at least half a meter from each other, on them - snack bars, smaller. Before these plates and a little to the left put a small - pirozhkovaya.
Cutlery
If you are going to put on the table for several appliances, then they need to be placed in order of serving dishes. The earlier the dish is served on the table, the farther from the plate there should be the appliance. You can put three types of forks on the table: ordinary, for fish and for dessert, but everything is necessarily with the teeth up and to the left of the plates.
The four-tooth fish fork differs from the usual one in that it is slightly smaller than meat, wider, with short teeth and a deep slit in the middle, or has not four but three teeth. Dessert fork is the smallest in size.
The knives are placed on the right, the sharpened side of the blade to the plate. Fish knife is different from the usual in form. It has a short, wide blade in the shape of a spatula, which is convenient for the separation of bones. Dessert knife, like fork - the smallest in size.
To each salad, which is served on the table in a common bowl, you need to add a special fork and spoon for salad dressing, at the most - an ordinary spoon, to a bowl with caviar - a spoon in the form of a spatula, for a cake - a knife for cutting and a spatula for unfolding.
Glasses and wine glasses
Glasses and glasses are placed before the plate and just on the right. You can do this in a semicircle or in one line, a little obliquely. They are arranged in the following order from the plate: a glass for water, for champagne, for red wine, for white wine, a glass for cognac, a glass for vodka. Do not put a lot of glasses, only those that are designed for the available drinks.
To add a touch of originality, you can dip the edges of the glasses for soft drinks into lemon juice or colored syrup, and then into sugar. Then on the edge of the glass there will be a "rime", which looks beautiful and unusual. With a rich imagination, you probably already hear "glasses ringing, and in them - kurshony, syrups, punches and balm!"
Drinks and dishes
The main drink in the New Year is Champagne. According to the rules of etiquette Champagne is served on a table in a silver or nickel-plated pail with ice. In any case, it must be well chilled.
Drinks are placed on the center line of the table, evenly along the entire length. All bottles should be served on the table open. The exception is Champagne. Open it carefully, in no case without pre-shaking, because the cork flies at a speed of 13 meters per second, and unpleasant accidents this night no one needs!
Plates, salad bowls and vases with New Year's salads and snacks are placed in the center of the table, large ones are in the middle, smaller ones are on the edges. Place the dishes so that it is convenient for the guests to get them, for a large table it is better to put everything in double quantity.
Festive table laying assumes and original decoration of dishes. The motives for decorating this New Year are better to choose "dragon" and water themes. Eggs cut out in the form of water lilies, decorated with feathers of green onions, or a salad, arranged in the form of a dragon in a "shell" of cut olives, look wonderful on dishes. Fish is decorated with lemon, meat - greens.
When creating a New Year's design service, remember that everything should be not only beautiful, but also convenient for guests who will thank you with toasts for the mistress of the house!