Foods and home making

5. In making jelly, the sugar added to the boiling hot juice should be (a) hot ( b ) cold. 6. Test fruit juice for pectin with (a) water ( b ) salt (c) alcohol. 7. To make jelly from strawberries add (a) acid ( b ) commercial pectin. 8. When cooking fruit to make jam, add (a) much water ( b ) little water. 9. Pectin is a (a) fat (6) protein (c) carbohydrate. 10. In making jelly from large fruits, add to the fruit before cooking (a) an equal measure of water (b) half as much water (c) twice as much water. HOME WORK If possible, prepare jam, jelly, or similar food at home. Glasses of delicious jams and conserves make gifts for the holiday season that are suitable for many persons. Prepare these fruits in the fall for gift-giving. UNIT 7: HOSPITALITY CHAPTER XL PICNIC LUNCHES Can you answer these questions ? If not, look for tfie answers as you study this chapter. 1. Why are paper dishes and napkins especially desirable for a picnic lunch ? 2. Why may it be necessary to carry drinking water from home for a picnic, even though there is a stream of water on the picnic grounds? 3. What obligations do picnickers have in building a fire? 4. What are some ways of providing hot foods at a picnic ? 5. Is clear, sparkling, spring water always safe to drink? 6. How may a fire in the woods be put out? 7. How can you roast corn and potatoes at a picnic? What may make a picnic lunch successful? Is it the fresh, cool air and the green of the trees and shrubs that makes a lunch or supper served outdoors taste so good? Whatever it is, we know a picnic lunch may be delightful. The pleasure of a picnic lunch may be defeated if a great many dishes and other heavy articles have to be carried. For a picnic, such foods should be chosen that very few dishes are needed in serving them. Paper dishes are excellent not only because they are light in weight and non-breakable, but because they may be destroyed after using. Fruits such as peaches make stains on cloth which are difficult to remove. Since fruits generally form a part of a picnic lunch, and since most foods at a picnic are eaten from the fingers, paper napkins are especially desirable. 54i 542 Hospitality If foods are to be cooked at a picnic, aluminum utensils are convenient because aluminum is light and easy to carry. How can hot foods be included in a picnic lunch ? Just as at least one hot food should be included in a box lunch carried to school, so a hot food is desirable at a picnic. Often a beverage is served hot at a picnic. It may be carried in a vacuum bottle or vacuum jug. In the absence of a vacuum bottle, a beverage such as cocoa may be poured into an ordinary jug and the latter wrapped in several thicknesses of paper. The beverage will keep hot for several hours. It is fun to cook one or more foods at a picnic. Usually time in home preparation is saved by cooking a food at a picnic. Then gathering fuel materials, building the fire, and cooking the foods out of doors are great fun. Finally, eating the food hot from the fire adds much to the pleasure of a picnic party. How can a fire be built in the woods? The spot on which a fire is built should be selected carefully, so as to avoid danger of a forest fire.