BREAKFAST IN BED.

Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19883, 12 May 1936, Page 3

BREAKFAST IN BED.

SOME DON’TS. It is sometimes very much more convenient for a housewife to treat lthe occasional guest to breakfast in ibed than to have the meal with the lfamily. If there are children to be [got off to school and breakfast re;solves itself into a kind of hectic ;running buffet, it is an easier matter l to give the guest her meal in bed than ’to attempt to get a calm and sociable lbreakf-ast for all in the dining-room. But do, please, give her what she llikes. It is an alarming experience ito be faced with a trayful of things {which are not liked, and if the food is left it will not escape notice. Wake your guest, to begin with, with an early morning cup of tea. Then you can reasonably expect her to wait for her breakfast while you get the children off to school and the ‘ workers of the household duly fed and out of the way. i Now get out your guest’s tray, lwhich should be big enough for comlfort, but not heavy. Use a dainty ‘traycloth, and don’t forget a linen [table napkin. Give her grapefruit iwith the fruit loosened a little with {a knife; bacon and eggs if she likes them, or else fish, poached eggs on itoast, herring roes, or sardines on ltoast. Let her have toast and marmalade after this. ‘ Let her have a small tea or coffee pot of her own, and don’t forget to put plenty of sugar, milk, marmalade, land butter on the tray. Once a girl stayed with a friend [for the first time, and her breakfast ,was brought upstairs. Alas! there was no milk on the tray, and, not liking to ask for any, she drank her tea without it, hating it heartily. When her hostess came into the lbedroom for a chat she was horrified [and upset to find she had forgotten l the milk. l “Oh, but I like tea without milk,” 1 liter visitor lied in haste, “I never take 1 .” i Now, whenever she visits this particular friend, no milk is offered to lher. She is still waiting an opporltunity to say she has developed a ltaste for it.—An exchange.