The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1925-05-21
THE HQMEMAKERS
l CORNER
Conducted by Miss A. L. Webb, State
College Of Washingtcn.)


The Little House
Little House, oh, little house, we had
planned together,
Mocker of my April hopes, jailer did
you seem,
When across your pane / glimpsed
cloud-white gypsey weather,
Found the paths of everyday blurred
with wistful dream.
All my heart was hebel-turned, throb-
bling with the spring,
All the little comrade trails | had
loved before,
Swete with cloaks of sun-warmed pine
for my wandering,
Sudden turned and fled me there by
your prison-door."
Martha Haskell Clark, "The Home
Road"
Picnic days have come, the days
when one must get out under the open
sky and the trees. Then hurry the
mornings work bit, pack up lunch,
call Daddy and tell him to meet you
and the children at noon under the
trees down by the river, where the
water is shallow enough for the little
folks to wade. You can take your darn
ng bag, so that your Puritan con-
science won't hurt you, and with your
back against a tree do quite a much
work as you would in hot room in
terrupted by the agents for vacuum
cleaners, hosiery and brushes.
If you do not know what to have for
lunch, you will find chapter on "Out
door Meals" in Oda Bailey Aliens cook
book Doubleday, Publisherl which
tells not only what to put into box
lunches, but menus and plans for porch
meals, hikes, "bacon bats, bench
meals and auto picnics.
Piazza Meals
Simple foods, needing little cooking,
should be chosen for piazza meals.
Something that is easily kept warm
should be the hot dish, as shirred eggs
or casserole. A wheel-tray will take
out everything for the table setting
at single trip, and one more journey
with it will put the food on the table.
Vt can be used again for clearing away
in one trip. In hot weather saving
steps saves much energy, and brings
you back out to your guests sooner,
too.
Sometimes visitors are made to feel
very much at home by letting them
take out their own lunch, each pro-
vided with tray from which they will
eat, the table holding just the butter,
bread, salt and pepper, water and
sugarbowl.
Porch Menus
Here are three menus for piazza
meals: /. Cold broiled chicken, pota-
to salad. pickles, bread-and-butter
sandwiches. apple pie and cheese, cof-
fee. 2. Sliced meat loaf, potato chips,
sliced tomatoes, nut bread sandwiches,
jelley doughnuts, peaches, tea. 8.
Boston baked beans.
Left-Overs in Salads
Much cooking time may be saved If
one keeps in mind, when preparing
fish, meat or vegetables, that the left
over makes an excellent base for a
salad next day if enough has been pre-
pared in the first place.
A salad alone, or combined with cold
meat or fish, gives chance for a
platter meal, in such combination for
example as: /. Potato salad, sliced
tomatoes with French dressing, and
sliced harm or tongue; 2. Pressed
corned beef, tomatoes stuffed with
vegetable salad, and Saratoga chips;
s. Jeslied fizh, potato, rice, or maca-
mni salaAs <alili mayonaise, and Gu
cumbers with French dressing; 4.
StufhsA egzz potato salad, tomato
aspiH ard mzFnnaise.
Plain FDtaxo Salad
Whfr the pssz1Oes are still warm
add to 3 cups Of 7Galed or steamed %
tztoes, diced, tablespocnof grated
onion or minced xhives, same of
minced rssxsey and enough French
dressing to make it stick t,sgether.
Then add a fine chopped egg, salt and
pepper to taste, chill 1T, and serve
with lettuce or cress trimming. May
onnaise or boiled dressing may alsos be
served with it if desired.