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.
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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?
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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?