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The "Queen" cookery books: Breakfast and Lunch Dishes

1904

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Presented as published in 1904. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Timbale il la Romaine. Fonds d’Artichayits a la Morny. Cr6mo a la Reine Mab. AUTUMN. Qilufs Brouilles a la Normande. Grouses rotis au cresson. Macaroni fourre a la Milanaise. Macedoine de Fruits au Marasquin. Escalopes de Foie Gras au Mad6re. The above can evidently be increased by having cold dislies of various kinds on the sideboard ; or if less is required, a dish of meat or the savoury may be suppressed. But the above may serve as types. Lastly there are shooting lunches and what, for want of a better word, may be known as basket lunches. Concerning the former a few words have already been said, but it may not be out of place to enter a protest against the tendency to turn the shooting lunch into a kind of picnic, of more or less ornate character, which, with due submission, it may be observed is a mistake. A rich, heavy lunch, differing only by the fact of its being eaten in the open from the same meal at home, is seldom, if ever, a good preparation for a successful afternoon shoot. LUNCHEON. Ill and, generally speaking, the shoot, and not the Inneh, is the raison d'etre o£ the outing, and the first point to be considered. Such decorative meals may therefore be left out of the question. Ex- perience has taught me that what a man in the turnips or on the hill likes best is something of this kind : A packet of neatly-cut sandwiches, a good slice each of bread and of cheese, a slice of cake or a biscuit, according to individual taste, and lastly some fruit. Attention must be paid to the following points : hunger will certainly be present, but thirst IS, at all risks, to be avoided, for no matter how harmless and sinq^le the beverages, the mere fact of drinking anythiiuj interferes with straight shooting. Cold tea d la Russe, for which directions have been given, is the most generally popidar non-alcoholic drink, but, if sent, mind a fresh lemon, a sharp knife, and some loaf sugar is included with it. Each sportsman must be a rule unto himself as to the contents of his flask, but always see that in the lunch basket a small phial of spirit (whiskey, brandy, &c.,) is provided in case of accidents, and bear in mind that fortuitous burns and streams are usually fully as dangerous as the ju'etty little brook that tempted the enchanted fawn in days of old. Lastly there are the school lunches to be provided In these days of advanced education the strain is so great that the luncheon interval should always be carefully provided for, and this is a point on which too little stress is laid in many schools, girls’ schools especially. In many lemonade (botth d), milk, and water are, possibly, supplied as liquid refreshment. 112 BREAKFAST AND LUNCH DISHES.