Evening star., 1932-09-23
Y YHILE there will be many
a warm days for outings, porch
IN parties and picnics before

AA parties and picnics before
cool weather arrives, the
early Autumn also is an IDEAL
time for the picnic outing because the
sun will not be so glarlng, ants ana
other insects will not be so plentiful,
drinks will not taste s. lnslpld, ana
sandwiches will not be soggy..
Fall picnic as troublesome affair II
you give little thought to your mar
keting. When you are shopping on
Saturday for the week end, for instance.
If YOU think that the family would like
to go on a picnic Sunday rather than
eat at home buy for dinner that
may be served at home or may be
packed in your car and taken to the
woods at short notice.
First decide whether you are going
to prepare everything in the kitchen
and assemble part of it at the picnic
spot, or whether YOU intend to COOK
everything outdoors. Plan the menu
and equipment to suit the occasion.
Write down a list of things that you
need. In order to be sure that they get
into the picnic basket, lay them out
on a table before you begin to pack.
and don't forget matches.
In capable hands, a coffee pot, long
handled frying pan, and possibly ket-
tie, will cook a banquet outdoors. Take
some paper or wooden plates, cups that
won't collapse, forks and spoons, one good
sharp knife, q, bottle e-and-can opener all
In one picnic cloth of checked cotton,
paper, or scalloped square of oilcloth
with matching oilcloth pads to sit on,
thermos bottles for holding hot or cold
drinks, and a large jug for carrying
cold salad, hot stew, or ice cream.
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moist salad sandwiches or salad vege-
tables that should be kept crisp with
ice are very useful. Salt, pepper. sugar
and butter should be packed in separate
tight containers.
Meat in Picnic Menu.
Buy roast, potatoes, the ingredients
for a good salad, dessert of fruit,
cake. cookies or pie, and you are ready
for a day at home or outdoors. OF
course the roast would have to be pre-
pared ahead of time. Slice your roast
and wrap it in WaXed paper Take
along a loaf or two of sliced bread or
some soft rolls and let your guests
make their own sandwiches.
You can have cold chicken, or fried
or roasted chicken now that it comes in
cans ready to heat and serve Fried
chicken may be wrapped in waxed pa
per. ready to eat Roast chicken. roast
lamb, roast pork, roast beef, roast ham
or boiled chicken or ham are perfect
picnic foods.
A lamb chop wrapped in bacon and
held with skewer is a good combina-
ton. Pantry some potatoes along with
them Boiled potatoes ready to fry
may be brought from home.
Everybody likes broiled lamb kidneys
and bacon. Individual spikes or skew
ers can be bought or quickly made from
wire or green sticks, which make it easy
for each guest to cook his own portion.
Serve with fried sour apples and po-
tatoeS and green corn baked in en-
bers
Serve frizzled boiled ham with hot
potato salad. Heat the potato salad in
the pan you use for frlzzllng the nam.
Serve melons for dessert.
If the day is cool, take along some
canned corned beef hash, heat it, and
serve on fiat rolls, or carry a hot meat
succotash in q thermos jug. Make it
the day before and reheat before you
start. To make, cook stew-sized chunks
of beef, veal or corned beef. Add
few tiny, potatoes and a dash of
chopped onion. When tender add about
three cupfuls of cooked green corn.
A thermos bottle of hot soup is good
be very welcome
A well-stocked pantry shelf that
holds pickles, picked onions, olives,
cheese. jams and so forth is always a
great help when preparing for picnics.
Avoid salty foods. They produce thirst.
Tart favors curtail the longing for
water.
Sandwich Specials.
Every picnic basket should contain
at least one simple meat sandwich es-
pecially if men are in the party. Some
good filings are cold roast beef, sliced
chicken, meat loaf corned beef, or ham.
Men like slice of Swiss cheese added
to a ham sandwich. Ham cheeSeletS
are delicious. Make thin paste of
American cheese favored with pimento.
Tightly roll individual portions in thin
slices of boiled ham.
When making vegetable sandwiches,