Add also a suspicion of nutmeg and a little lemon-juice.
Fill the cups with this while the mixture is moist, as when the butter gets cold the mixture gets firm.

If you use chopped beet-root as well as other vegetables, it is best to fill half the cups with half the mixture before any beetroot is added, then add the beet-root and stir the mixture well up and it will turn a bright red.

Now fill the remaining half of the cups, and place them on the dish containing the parsley, alternately.

The red contrasts prettily with the light yellowish white of the first half.

Do not colour the white specks with cochineal, as this is a different shade of red from the beet-root.