Food and health

What does sandwich mean } " Sandwich '' is another word with a story. An Englishman, an Earl of Sandwich (Sandwich being the name of a place or town), who did not want to stop to eat, used to have slices of bread with ham between, taken to him — a convenient way of having a simple meal. If you butter bread, put in it a bit of crisp lettuce or water cress, add slices of hard-boiled egg or cheese, or a bit of cold meat, and another piece of buttered bread, you have a little meal, have you not .? How can we prepare meat for sandwiches ? You do not need meat for luncheon at school ; but, if it is more convenient sometimes for Mother to give you that than anything else, a little will do no harm. The meat should be sliced thin, or chopped and moistened a little, that it may be spread nicely on the bread. Eggs for the school luncheon? Some people think hard-boiled eggs indigestible ; but they are really not so. An egg cooked hard takes somewhat longer to digest ; and, if we swallow it almost whole, it may not be good for us. Nevertheless a hard-boiled egg is a convenient and useful food. Sliced or chopped and seasoned pleasantly, we must chew egg if it is in a sandwich. This is a good way to take it. The egg should cook in boiling water a half hour at least. Cut it fine, moisten with a little milk, salt it, put it between the bread — and you have a very palatable sandwich. Nuts for luncheon. We often think of nuts as something to be eaten " for fun,"" as somebody says, forgetting that the squirrel can thrive upon them. The squirrel is certainly a most lively and energetic little person, sometimes getting the nuts before you do. Yes, the nuts that you love to gather in the crisp autumn weather are a good food for you, provided you chew them as well as Squirrel does. Eat them with plain bread and butter at lunch time ; or chop them, mix them with a little sour-milk cheese, and make them into sandwiches. You could not ask for a better meal. We will plan for other luncheon dishes as we talk about other meals. 1. Explain why bread, milk, and apples make a nutritious luncheon. 2. Look up the words: meal, breakfast, luncheon, dinner, supper, tea ; and write the definitions in your cook book. 3. Make a list of food materials that can be used in sandwiches. 4. See if you can reason out what foodstuffs an egg contains. Do you know why an egg colors a silver spoon ? 5. What are some of the foodstuffs that nuts must contain i Lesson 8 A PICNIC luncheon What new can we have for a picnic luncheon ? The Luncheon Club asked Miss James if she would not go with them some pleasant Saturday for a picnic on the shores of a beautiful pond at the head of Pleasant Valley. This sheet of water had been stocked with fish by the farmers of the valley, who sent for advice to the Bureau of Fisheries at Washington. The members of the. Farmers^ Club have permission to fish at certain times of the year. They were very glad to allow the Luncheon Club to go fishing on a holiday morning. The other food for luncheon was arranged for, just as the club planned it on school days. The different members of the club carried different foods ; and all together they had enough bread and butter, sandwiches, and cookies for every one present. The boys caught the fish while Miss James and the girls were building the fire and preparing to make the cocoa in a kettle hung over the fire. Two or three pans had been loaned for frying the fish, and you may be sure that the boys and girls had a merry time cleaning and cooking the fish, and eating the luncheon. They sang their club Fig. 31. — The Lui>cheon Club at the shore.