The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1909-11-19
THE SCHOOL LUNCH
PROPER FOOD FOR THE GROWING
BOY AND GIRL.
Both Appetizing and Paiatable sano'
wiches Are Numerous-Some Sug-
Qestions Which Mothers May
Find Of Value.

Sandwich filings are legion-meat
sandwich. cold roast beef. chopped
and slightly sailed, between slices OF
white bread, chicken cut thin and salt.
ed, white bread.
Boiled ham, chopped fine, and a lit
tie dry mustard. Roast veal, finely
chopped, with a few olives mixed In.
and brown bread slices.
Thin slices of cucumber with white
bread. with salt and pepper.
Thin slices of tomato, drained OF
all pulp and seed and wiped dry.
Lettuce with cream cheese spread
on it, salt or lemon juice.
Celery chopped fine with a little
m%ayonnaise or French dressing, or
merely with salt and lemon juice and
whole wheat bread.
Chopped green peppers mixed with
cream cheese. Cream cheese mixed
with nuts and served on Boston brown
bread.
Stewed oysters chopped, olives
chopped, white bread. Sweet sand
wiches-Chopped dates with a little
cream and white bread. Figs chopped
fine and wet with cream, white wheat
bread. Figs and nuts chopped to-
gether, candied ginger, prunes,
chopped peanuts. white bread.
Tiny biscuits with slices Of cold
meat. with a couple of olives for q
change.
Fruit salads carried in a jar, stewed
fruits n %custards, are a delightful
addition to the luncheon, and easily
prepared.
Orange Salad.-Prepare a seedless
orange cut in half crosswise, take out
pulp, save the juice, make a French
dressing, a tablespoonful of oil. with
half a teaspoonful of lemon Juice, and
the orange Juice. add a little salt, put
the pulp in a jar and pour the dress.
ing owe 1t.
Fruit is a desirable part Of a school
luncheon, oranges may be peeled and
halved, and the fruit separately
wrapped.
If hot water can be procured at
school there are many good things
the children can have in addition to
their usual luncheon. A little pre-
pared cocoa already sweetened, which
only needs hot water to make it pala-
table. or one of Britton capsules which
come in small boxes. They can be
dissolved in hot water.
School lunches suggested to the be-
ginner:
l. Two lettuce sandwiches. two OF
brown bread and cream cheese, two
olives. an orange, cake
2. Two chicken sandwiches, two OF
chopped figs, a little sponge cake, a
pear
3. Two brown bread and egg sand
wiches. two of white bread, orange
marmalade, a chicken drumstick. a
square of fruit wafer. a peach.
4. Two of dates and white bread,
and stewed prunes and chopped nuts,
two chocolate waters and two olives,
5. Two of cream cheese, lettuce and
white bread, two of preserved ginger,
a little round cake and an orange.
6. Two roast beef sandwiches, two
of cream cheese. chopped peanuts
two small celery stalks, sailed. two
cookies and apple sauce.
Z. Two minced ham sandwiches, two
of chopped celery with French dress
ing, a square of ginger bread, a pear
half a dozen marshmallows.
s. Three sandwiches of plain bread
and butter. a jar of mixed fruit salad
a slice of cold meat. three ginger
cookies.
3. Two of dates and nuts, a small
spice cake, a jar of orange salad. 6
bunch of grapes.
10. Two celery sandwiches, two o.
chopped chicken and olives, with a lit
tie mayonnaise, ginger bread. a jal
of stoned prunes.