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Usual time for cocktails, as a kind of reception - with half-past five to seven. On Sundays and holidays, especially outside the city, cocktails often served during the day, before lunch or dinner, which does not necessarily hold at home.
That woman, who invites too many guests at the cocktail should be prepared for possible trouble. Therefore it is necessary to free up room in advance of extra furniture, art objects, fragile plants, small children and pets. Great cheap ashtrays should arrange wherever inaccurate guest can throw a cigarette.
Cocktails are usually serves a special guest bartender or someone from the family. Never serve the master and mistress of the first, is also unacceptable to the host and hostess greeted the first guests with a cocktail in hand. Snacks are also served first guests, then the mistress and finally owner.
Bar can be arranged in the pantry, on the balcony in the dining room or in any other place, except the kitchen, if there food is cooked. It is inevitable that most men and some ladies will always be at the table with drinks and snacks.
On the table or close to it must always be a hefty supply of clean glasses and a tray for used dishes. It is assumed that, taking the glass, guests will enjoy them throughout the reception. But in reality this is not true. A reasonable woman would take care of that cup, of course, cost was three times greater than the guests.
Cocktails will never end at the scheduled time. Those whom you would like to invite to dinner, often leave earlier, because the can not wait for the most obnoxious guests do not drink any more, and another, and another glass before goodbye. The experienced boss always happy meal outside the home, giving him a convenient excuse to end a reception at a time. Undoubtedly, he is not obliged to invite to dinner all the lingering guests, but if you go to dinner in a restaurant, there is usually sent to all, and then divide by all the men present. The host and hostess, suiting a cocktail and do not want guests to stay long with them until midnight, as a precaution before receiving an invitation to dinner at a friend's house, where they naturally can not take all the friends. If the situation is hopeless, then at the end of the reception dinner is served cold.
