Other interesting facts about food. You can make your own list ; for surely facts about preparing food so that it is delicious to eat, facts about serving it daintily, and knowledge of how to keep it clean, even of how to raise and sell it, and of how to buy it, will occur to you as worth knowing. One small book cannot contain all this information, but at least this book may help you to make a beginning. The yearns work. The heading of this chapter states our large problem for study during the year. The projects, or pieces of practical work, for us are the school luncheon, the home supper, breakfast, and dinner. As we study each meal in the different ^chapters, we shall learn about the food materials and the dishes prepared from them suitable for each meal. Some of these dishes can bp made at school, and most of them are useful for the home table. EXERCISES AND PROBLEMS 1. Make a list of the foods you know, under grain, vegetables, meat foods, sugar, fats. 2. Can you give a fact that shows the egg to be a food that builds the body and gives energy ? 3. Why is the body sometimes likened to an engine ? 4. Can you tell how it is different from an engine ? 5. Explain why milk is a food as well as a drink. CHAPTER II LUNCHEON AT SCHOOL Lesson i proper foods for the school luncheon What are some of the foods that make a proper school lunch- eon ? Can we prepare any of them at school ? Luncheon is an interesting part of the school program, is it not ? especially when it is a good one. Marjorie Allen always takes something from home in her dainty luncheon box, and she is quite likely to offer a taste to some one else. Marjorie has sandwiches made from light, sweet bread, eggs especially prepared, milk, a slice of plain cake or a few cookies, and fruit or jelly in a small glass to be spread upon the bread. The different kinds of food are wrapped separately in paper, either plain and perfectly clean, or paraffined. A paper napkin is in the box, too. Marjorie uses a paper box, 9 lO FOOD AND HEALTH which is burned afterwards with all the other papers and never thrown about to make the school yard untidy. This fall, however, Marjorie is bringing vegetables to school, and is talking about making cocoa. She is suggesting to the girls and boys in the Pleasant Valley School that they have a luncheon club and make lunch a feature of the day, instead of eating almost any thing as fast as possible in order to begin play. And what is the plan ? Planning a lunch club. There are several ways in which the club can run the luncheon. Of course the members should vote on the matter. The teacher and the mothers will be consulted ; and they will surely approve the plan, if it is workable. According to the old-fashioned way, each pupil brings a lunch in pail or box, and each has his own. The first step to make it pleasanter is the arrangement of some kind of table, which need be nothing more than boards set on boxes, either outdoors or inside. Paper napkins may be used, and a place laid for each pupil. This makes luncheon a picnic every day. There is another method, already the fashion in some Courtesy of Mrs. Hetty Browne. Fig. 3. — The boys and girls of Pleasant Valley have a luncheon club and make lunch a feature of the day. LUNCHEON AT SCHOOL ii schools, which is not difficuh. Each pupil supplies one kind of food material, and each takes his turn in bringing a different kind. Two or three furnish milk ; others bread or fruit or vegetables or whatever is con- venient, the whole scheme being planned ahead. Of course, the division must be fair to all ; and there is a chance here for some practical arithmetic in finding out the cost of materials and dividing the expense evenly. When Marjorie proposes having vegetables as well as fruit, somebody says, " But we can^t eat them raw.'' Then why should we not cook them ?

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Other interesting facts about food. You can make your own list ; for surely facts about preparing food so that it is delicious to eat, facts about serving it daintily, and knowledge of how to keep it clean, even of how to raise and sell it, and of how to buy it, will occur to you as worth knowing. One small book cannot contain all this information, but at least this book may help you to make a beginning. The yearns work. The heading of this chapter states our large problem for study during the year. The projects, or pieces of practical work, for us are the school luncheon, the home supper, breakfast, and dinner. As we study each meal in the different ^chapters, we shall learn about the food materials and the dishes prepared from them suitable for each meal. Some of these dishes can be made at school, and most of them are useful for the home table. 1. Make a list of the foods you know, under grain, vegetables, meat foods, sugar, fats. 2. Can you give a fact that shows the egg to be a food that builds the body and gives energy ? 3. Why is the body sometimes likened to an engine ? 4. Can you tell how it is different from an engine ? 5. Explain why milk is a food as well as a drink. CHAPTER II Lesson i proper foods for the school luncheon What are some of the foods that make a proper school luncheon ? Can we prepare any of them at school ? Luncheon is an interesting part of the school program, is it not ? especially when it is a good one. Marjorie Allen always takes something from home in her dainty luncheon box, and she is quite likely to offer a taste to some one else. Marjorie has sandwiches made from light, sweet bread, eggs especially prepared, milk, a slice of plain cake or a few cookies, and fruit or jelly in a small glass to be spread upon the bread. The different kinds of food are wrapped separately in paper, either plain and perfectly clean, or paraffined. A paper napkin is in the box, too. Marjorie uses a paper box, lO which is burned afterwards with all the other papers and never thrown about to make the school yard untidy. This fall, however, Marjorie is bringing vegetables to school, and is talking about making cocoa. She is suggesting to the girls and boys in the Pleasant Valley School that they have a luncheon club and make lunch a feature of the day, instead of eating almost any thing as fast as possible in order to begin play. And what is the plan ? Planning a lunch club. There are several ways in which the club can run the luncheon. Of course the members should vote on the matter. The teacher and the mothers will be consulted ; and they will surely approve the plan, if it is workable. According to the old-fashioned way, each pupil brings a lunch in pail or box, and each has his own. The first step to make it pleasanter is the arrangement of some kind of table, which need be nothing more than boards set on boxes, either outdoors or inside. Paper napkins may be used, and a place laid for each pupil. This makes luncheon a picnic every day. There is another method, already the fashion in some [illustration: Courtesy of Mrs. Hetty Browne. The boys and girls of Pleasant Valley have a luncheon club and make lunch a feature of the day.] Fig. 3. — The boys and girls of Pleasant Valley have a luncheon club and make lunch a feature of the day. schools, which is not difficuh. Each pupil supplies one kind of food material, and each takes his turn in bringing a different kind. Two or three furnish milk ; others bread or fruit or vegetables or whatever is convenient, the whole scheme being planned ahead. Of course, the division must be fair to all ; and there is a chance here for some practical arithmetic in finding out the cost of materials and dividing the expense evenly. When Marjorie proposes having vegetables as well as fruit, somebody says, " But we can't eat them raw.'' Then why should we not cook them ?

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