Evening star., 1934-09-14
Those Late Summer PiCniCs
Suggestions for Equipping Your Basket for
Meal in the Wide-Open Spaces.
(Copyright. 1934D

IF YOU do not own special
motor or other basket for pic
mics. you can equip a basket OF
i your own that will serve the
purpose very well if kept in
readiness for the hurried call for a
meal in the open. Store in it special
pieces of equipment that are for pic
mic use-salts and peppers, a supply
of cups, saucers, plates, napkins,
knives, forks and spoons. Possibly
you can even set aside in it a special
skillet, coffee pot, a saucepan or
two and a grill of some sort for these
occasions. Paper accessories make 1t
easy to gather things for serving.
Among many other things there are
paper baking cups, special dishes for
serving salads and ice creams, and
paper pie plates. Moisture proof
paper is almost indispensable. There
are waxed papers, plain or fancy, in
sheets or in rolls, and bags for sand
wiches. There are cellophane wrap
pings and also cellophane bags for
different kinds Of food, including
sandwiches.
1t is quite the custom these days
to take along in the picnic basket
the various things that go toward
making sandwiches. salads, or what
ever is being served, and to let every
one at the picnic share in the fun
of final preparation. One of the new
charcoal stoves will be appreciated
for cooking QUITO doors, for barbe-
cues, or for baking and broiling at
the same time. Vacuum bottles and
jugs will keep hot things hot or cold
ones cold. The bottles carry liquids,
and for dishes like stews, vacuum
Jugs are a great convenience.
Special Preparations.
Cold suppers that can be prepared
In the cool of the morning and that
get better and better in the refrig
orator as the day wears on, are very
popular for vacations. Probably you
will like to serve a cupful of hot
soup first. At any rate, you will
do this sometimes, so choose one that
goes well in hot weather. Chicken
vegetable, pea or tomato-use youl
Judgment. Then you can follow il
with a platter of ice-cold ripe to-
matoes, followed out and filed with
salmon or crab meat or vegetable
salad. The salmon is particularly
good in this way. Dress 1t with
mayonnaise and serve on perfectly
frosty looking lettuce. Celery curls
too, are nice with this, and cucum-
bers. Is there anything so cookbook
ing and cool-tasting as a cucumber
that has been subjected to an Ice
water and salt bath and drained anc
dressed with vinegar and perhaps
a little oil. Vinegar is more impor'
tant than anything else when cucum-
bers are involved.
Crackers are always suitable fol
q picnic basket-Salty ones for serving
with soup or salad, crackers made
from any one of number of cereals
and those with caraway or other spe'
cial flavors. The crackers prepared
for use as canapes may be carried
to the picnic and filled there with an,
of the sandwich filings, and there arr
cookies, from very simple ones x
substantial ones, that are really ;
dessert in themselves, or, if you car
spare a cake or a pie that you hap
pen to have on hand, it will be ap
preciated.
If you are tired of the usual stuffeC
egg, why not prepare them the fol
lowing way for a change? Boil tn
eggs hard, and chill Peel and Gu
In halves. Scoop out the yolk ant
mash, adding salt, pepper, and may
onnaise to season. Mix with tn
mashed yolk some little pearl onion
or finely chopped scallions, and n
the halved whites. Press into eacl
center a curled anchovy. Make fou
cupfuls of tomato jelly. Pour littl
into small cups or molds, and whel
nearly set. put half an egg into eac
mold. Cover carefully with the jelly
which should be cooled but still liz
uid. Chill and serve with gree
salad or with cold meat. Pass tn
mayonnaise with the egg aspics.
When green peas are ready I
serve, add enough hot cream TO max
them rich, then fill little followed
out baking powder biscuits wit
them, and add crisp bit of baco
to each and serve. If green corn
not available on the stalk, you kno
about the frosted corn. of course; an
it tastes as If you had husked it ha
an hour before.
Inquire if your grocer has tho;
new potato chips, dated, fresh, wit
the salt done up in the top seam
the sack. 1t showers down over II