Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 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 picknicker like the wise pioneer,
looks out for 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 go
about it.
Unless it is picnic for two, do not
be tempted into depending on paper
box. Lunch for any number between
four and dozen may be beautifully
slowed within one of the straw teles-
cope Baskets which have dependable
leather straps, and weigh almost no.
thing. Line it with a 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
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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 sheet of the parafine pa
per over 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 go there. They
had better be opened and the brine or
vinegar poured off, both for safety and
for saving weight. Tins of biscuits or
sandwiches should also go toward the
bottom. Where there are several of
them it is best to stand them on end
and 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 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 and
lay it buttered side down upon the
end crust. Keep on until you have
the whole loaf sliced, buttered and
piled nearly in it's original shape.
Wrap it deity in paper-oiled paper,
of course-pass a strong rubber band
over it endwise, outside the paper, and
fit it in place. Treated thus it 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
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cheese, may take the place of butter.
Cottage cheese with just dash of salt
ana 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-fa-
vored cheese first well 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 box by themselves and tie
the box securely.
Pieat a picnic is an abomination of
desolation, custard the same, and cake
not much better. Instead of them, take
fruit, plenty of fruit, and if your sweet
tooth cries aloud, box of good candy.
Pack all these toward the bottom, let
ting your plate of chicken come toward
the top. If you carry wine, set bot
tie upright in either end of the basket
and pack around and between them as
firmly as possible. Upon top of the
chicken invert half dozen wooden
plates-but let not pride nor vanity
beguile 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
the crevices here and there a steel
knife, two or three lightweight plated
forks, full salt shaker with a depend
able top, and half dozen small. cheap
glasses, tapering enough to fit into
each other When all are as snug as
possible, fold eolored cotton table
cloth TO the size of the basket, lay it
on top OF all, tuck over it the long end
Of the napkin. then slip on the basket
cover. see that it fits square, and draw
the straps till you have a firm parcel.
Next comes wherewithal we shall
drink. With very cool water and
very cool day. lemonade is the thing.
bu: coffee is never out of place. But
do not make the mistake of carrying
lemons. Dissolve a pound OF
sugar in water enough to cover Il
up once. skim well. let cool a.