PICNIC LUNCHES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 January 1941, Page 8

PICNIC LUNCHES

TRY THESE RECIPES. As soon as the warm weather appears cur minds seem automatically to turn to thoughts of picnics, but let there be plenty to eat. Too often we are inclined to fill the hamper with all the cookies and cakes we possess and lastly add a few sandwiches, groaning all the while about the lack of sandwich fillings. If sandwiches are to take '.lie main place in the lunch here are a few suggestions for fillings. 1. Salmon and chopped pickles. 2. Dates, nuts and lemon juice iwarm the dates to soften). 3. Grated cheese and salad dressing. •I. Honey and nuts. 5. Cheese, celery and salad dressing. G. Cold fish and parsley. 7 CMd, cooked vegetables with salad dressing. 8. Strawberry jam and cottage

cheese. 9. Marmile. mini and chopped nuts. 10. Tomato, cucumber, celery and onion. 11. Sliced tomatoes with cheese and lettuce. 12. Finely chopped ham with salad dressing. 13. Finely chopped cold meat with crisp vegetables and dressing. 14. Egg and nut and melted butter. Instead of packing sweet cakes and cookies try one of the following recipes.

i Egg and Bacon Pic.—Bea 1 up 2.eggs with i-pint of milk to make a custard ’ adding plenty of seasoning. Line a large sandwich tin with wholemeal : pastry (use 3 parts of wholemeal to 1 i part of white flour), pour in the custard, ant! place slices of bacon on top. ’to cover completely. Bake in a mod- , crate oven for about 40 minutes. When cold it is quite firm. Clift. ,n Biscuits—Walnuts ’,-cup. j flour 1 cup, coconut 1 cup, rolled oats I 1 cup, sugar (brown) i-cup, butter |- j lb„ golden syrup or treacle 1 tableI spoon, seda 1 teaspoon, boiling water I 2 tablespoons. Melt the butter and syrup. Pour i into dry ingredients. Add baking soda land water. Put in dessertspoonfuls on ‘a try and press flat will’, the fingers

land bake j-hour. ■ If you wish to do any cooking when ' picnicing or camping a useful stove j can be made as follows: Cut a good ! sized hole in the top of a petrol can , i the low four-gallon type) and a piece j about four inches high and the whole i width of the can at the very bottom jon one side. Place two brides against I the walls of the can and a wire grat--1 ini! over them. Above this grating the , walls are covered with clay ihalf firebricks would do as well). This stove i is pasy to carry around from plrfce to I place and will thrive on wet or dry j wood, in a wind and in wet weather, j If three petrol cans are bound together ■ i and tite central one contains the lire; ; the other two will act as ovens.