The Blackfoot optimist. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1907-1918, 1911-01-26
THE SCHOOL LUNCH
PROPER FOOD FOR THE GROWING
BOY AND GIRL.
Both Appetizing and PaIatabIe Sand
Wiches Are Numerous-Some Sug-
gestions Which Mothers May
lsind 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 lit
tie dry mustard. Roast veal. finely
chopped. with 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 little
mayonnaise 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 little
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 couple of olives for a
change.
Fruit salads carried in jar. stewed
fruits and 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 French
dressing. tablespoonful of OIL with
| half teaspoonful of lemon juice, and
the orange juice. add little salt, put
the pulp in jar and pour the dress
ing over it.
Fruit is desirable part of school
luncheon, oranges may be peeled and
halved and the fruit separately
wrapped.
A banana is so hearty that it re-
quires little for luncheon and then it
must be ripe and eaten with salt Put
up the sandwiches in paraffin paper
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
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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. little sponge cake. a
pear
8 Two brown bread and egg sand
wiches, two of white bread. orange
marmalade, chicken drumstick
square of fruit wafer, peach.
4. Two of dates and white bread
and stewed prunes and chopped nuts,
two chocolate waters and two olives.
S. 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.
7. Two minced ham sandwiches, two
Of chopped celery with French Dress
Ing. square of ginger bread. a pear
half dozen marshmallows.
8. Three sandwiches of plain bread
and butter. jar Of mixed fruit salad,
a slice of cold meat. three ginger
cookies.
9. Two Of dates and nuts, a small
spice cake. jar of orange salad, q
bunch Of grapes.
10. Two celery sandwiches, two of
chopped chicken and olives, with a lit
tie mayonnaise. ginger bread. jar
of stoned prunes.
II. Two little baking powder bis
cults, sandwiches of bread and jam,
a stuffed egg. an orange.