FoodNet

Foods and home making

1928

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Presented as published in 1928. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
The box lunches may be scored as suggested in the following : BOX LUNCH SCORE Neatness . 20 Clean container and napkin 5 Food in neat packages 5 Packages neatly arranged 5 Crushable foods on top 5 j46 Hospitality Convenience io Napkin on top of foods 5 Foods eaten first placed so that all foods need not be removed to get it 5 Food Selection 70 Hot food 5 Combination of moist and dry foods .... 5 Milk 15 Fruit 15 Vegetable 15 Flavors, varied and harmonious ... 15 Total 100 SUMMARY For a picnic 1. Choose foods requiring few dishes for serving. 2. Use paper dishes and napkins. 3. Carry drinking water unless you know there is a spring or stream on the picnic grounds which has been tested scientifically and pronoupced safe. A hot food can be served at a picnic by: 1. Carrying it in vacuum bottles or jugs 2. Wrapping paper around an ordinary jug 3. Cooking it on the picnic grounds In building a fire at a picnic: 1. Choose a suitable spot, thus avoiding danger of a forest fire. 2. Wear suitable clothes, avoiding danger of clothing catching fire. In leaving picnic grounds: 1. Remove or destroy all paper or waste food. 2. See that all fires are put out. REVIEW QUESTIONS AND EXERCISES Copy the following sentences, writing a number or a word in place of each blank. 1. dishes are suitable for a picnic. 2. Utensils placed over glowing coals will not have on them. deposited Picnic Lunches 547 3. Water in a stream or spring is unsafe to drink if it contains 4. may result if picnickers leave a fire burning. 5. Picnickers should consider the of others. 6. Cocoa may be served hot at a picnic by carrying it in a bottle. 7. When leaving picnic grounds, or all paper and waste food. 8. Dip ears of corn in before roasting. 9. Cheese sandwiches fried in bacon fat are rich in 10. Do not remove either the or from ears of corn before roasting. 11. Before roasting potatoes, each potato in paper; the paper. 12. is one of the diseases which maybe caused by drinking water containing disease germs. 13. If water cannot be carried from home, use to quench thirst at a picnic. 14. A fire in the woods may be put out by pouring on it or by piling — — on it. HOME WORK 1. Plan a menu for a picnic lunch containing one hot food cooked at home. Suggest a way of keeping the food hot. 2. Plan a menu in which all foods requiring special preparation will be prepared on the picnic grounds. Suggest a way of preparing each food. 3. Plan a menu containing some foods prepared at home and some to be prepared in the woods. Suggest a plan for preparing the foods at the picnic. CHAPTER XLI CAKES Can you answer these questions ? If not, look for the answers as you study this chapter. 1. Some sponge-cake recipes contain no baking powder. What makes these cakes light? 2. What ingredient is lacking in sponge cake that is usually contained in other kinds of cake ? 3. What is confectioner’s sugar ? 4. What are cup cakes? 5. How can you prevent cake from sticking to the pan in which it was baked ? 6. If you follow a plain cake recipe and add chocolate for flavoring, what ingredient should be increased in quantity ? 7. What is the chief difference in the ingredients of plain cake and white cake? 8. Can good cakes be made by using fat other than butter?