Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1900-08-09
ESSENTIALS FOR A SUCCESSFUL
DAYS OUTING.
WHAT TO TAKE AND HOW
1t is Easy TO Put the Luncheon up
Right If One Knows the Simple
Secret-Hints for Those Who Con-
template Frolic in the Woods or
Elsewhere.


autumn tint deepen into brown. The
wise picknickers, like the wise pioneer,
looks out for a place affording plenty
of shade, wood and water. Given this
| indispensable, success or failure hinge
largely upon the basket-and the
basket is easier put up right than
wrong if only one knows how to 80
about it,
Unless it is a picnic for two do not
be tempted into depending on a paper
box Lunch for any number between
four and dozen may be beautifully
slowed within one of the straw tele-
scope baskets which have dependable
| leather straps, and weigh almost moth
| ing. Line 1t with soft big napkin
before you begin packing taking care
to have long end at one side, to fold
/ over the top. Upon the napkin put
sheet or two OF paraffin paper, tucking
it snugly into the corners
Now you are ready for the eatables.
| Chicken is much better fried than
broiIed for eating cold. Have the
/ butcher unjoint pair Of broiling size
carefully, cutting the breast in two
pieces, taking off the wings and divid-
/ ing the legs into drumstick and second
/ joint Wash well, salt and pepper
delicately, roll in cracker dust and fry
very brown in deep hot fat Take up
and drain upon paper in a hot plate,
then allow to cool in open air. For
packing lay a sheet OF the parafine pa
per over a wooden plate or bit of stiff
cardboard pile the fried chicken upon
it, draw the corners of the paper over
it and it Is ready for packing. But do
not put it at the bottom Of your
| basket Let the bottles OF olives or
pickles or relishes so there. They
mad better be opened and the brine or
vinegar poured off, both for safety and
for saving weight. Tins OF biscuits or
sandwiches should also so toward the
bottom. Where there are several Of
them it is best to stand them on end
aud wedge the bottles upright between
them.
Either ham, tongue or smoked beef
for sandwiches is best chopped fine,
mixed with little butter, lemon juice
and chopped parsley or capers and
celery and vinegar. Cut off the crust
from the sandwich loaf, and butter the
end before cutting off a slice. Spread
the filling evenly and press firmly to-
gether If you have not a sandwich
box to line with the oiled paper, pile
your sandwiches even, and wrap them
in several thicknesses Of the paper
! Then take lOaves of white and brown
bread, cut off the end, butter the loaf
| lightly, cut off the buttered surface ana
| lay it buttered side down upon the
| end crust Keep on until you have
! the whole loaf sliced, buttered and
piled nearly in its original shape
Wrap it deity in paper-olled paper
of course-pass a strong rubber band
over it endWise, outside the paper, and
| fit it in place Treated thus 1t keeps
! fresh and saves much time and temper
You can stir lemon juice into the but
| ter or mix in the yellow of eggs boiled
for twenty minutes and then mashed
smooth. Or cream cheese, or cottage
cheese, may take the place of butter
Cottage cheese with just dash OF salt
and cayenne makes an approach to a
sandwich often more acceptable than
the real thing
Wrap all such things as sliced
tongue, smoked relishes or high-la-
yored cheese first Wen in oiled paper
and then in tin foil-thus nothing is
either mussed or contaminated Nuts
should be shelled and salted-that Is,
fried lightly. sprinkled with salt
drained of grease and cooled. Put
them in a box by themselves and tie
the box securely.
Pie az a picnic is an abomination OF
desolation, cus.ard the same, and cake
not much better, Instead Of them, take
fruit. plenty of fruit, and if your sweet
tooth cries aloud, a box of good candy.
Pack all these toward the bottom, let
ting your plate Of chicken come toward
the top II YOU carry wine, set q bot
he upright In either end of the basket
and pack around and between them as
firmly as possible. Upon top Of the
chicken inyert half a dozen wooden
plates-but let not pride nor vanity
/ bsguile you into taking even leather
ones. over the plates lay batch Of
/ Japanese napkins-at least two for
each person to be served. Stick Into
/ tine crevices here and there steel
knife. two or three lightweight plated
forks. a fun salt shaker With depend
aole top, and half a dozen small, cheap
glasses. tapering enough 20 fit into
each other. When all are as snug as
possible. FOLD a colored cotton table
cloth 20 the size of the basket lay IL
on Top OF all, tuck over it the long end
of the napkin. then slip on the basket
cover. see that il fits square. and draw
tho straps tlu you have a firm parcel
Next comes wherewithal we shall
ldriuk. with very cool water and
very warm day. lemonade Is the thing
4 t,t .,,efea II ppvpr 1ut Of place Bu'