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Bananas 05 Eggs 08 Onions .01 Total $1.16 (7) Luncheon for Six — $1.01 ($.18 each) . Cream of carrot soup Chocolate bread pudding Potato croquettes Bread sticks Peas Grape jelly Cabbage salad Rolls Hard sauce (8) LUNCHEON FOR EIGHT — $1.35 ($.18 each) Potato soup Croutons Meat pie Celery and nut salad Rolls Piccalilli Cottage pudding Lemon sauce (9) Luncheon for Five — $.60 ($.12 each) Creamed salt fish Coffee jelly and cream Baked potatoes Cake Digitized by Google (10) Luncheon for Six — $1.50 ($.25 each) Tomato soup Bread sticks Scalloped fish and potato Salad rolls Celery, apples, and orange Plain cake salad Russian tea (11) Luncheon for Ten — $3.50 Grapefruit Cheese, nut, and olive salad with Macedoine of fruits Salad rolls Chicken timbales, mushroom Coffee mousse sauce Cake (12) Luncheon for Six Creamed salmon Mashed potatoes Baking-powder biscuits Biscuits Tapioca cream Cocoa Cost of Creamed Salmon 1 can salmon @ $.22 per can $.22 2 tbs. butter @ .38 per lb. 02i 1 pt. milk @ .08 per qt. .04 Total $.28J Cost of Mashed Potatoes 1 qt. potatoes @ $.96 per bu $.03 3 tbs. butter @ .40 per lb 03 J i c. milk @ .08 per qt. .01 Total $.071 Cost of Baking-powder Biscuit 3 c. flour @ $.04 per lb $.03 6 ts. baking-powder . . . @ .42 per lb 03 2 tbs. lard @ .18 per lb OIJ li c. milk @ .08 per qt. . . . . .02 i lb. butter @ .40 per lb. .05 Total $.141 Digitized by Google Cost of Tapioca Cream 2} tbs. minute tapioca . . @ $.10 per pkg $.01i 3 o. milk @ .08 per qt. 06 2 eggs @ .32 per doz. .... .06 i c. sugar @ .06 per lb. .01i li ts. vanilla @ .25 per bottle .... .02 Total $.16i Cost of Cocoa 2 c. milk @ .08 per qt $.04 i c. sugar @ .06 per lb. .00i 3 tbs. cocoa @ .20 per can. .02 Total $.06i Total Cost of Luncheon No. 12 Creamed salmon $-28} Mashed potatoes 071 Baking-powder biscuits 14f Tapioca cream 16} Cocoa .06} Total cost $.741 Afternoon Teas The serving of afternoon tea is a growing and an agreeable custom, and is much practiced in almost all parts of our country. This courtesy is observed with one's friends who drop in for an afternoon call, and more formal teas are given when few or many friends are invited to meet some guest who is visiting in the home. Teas, cakes, fancy crackers, at times small sandwiches, are served at an informal affair, but at a formal tea, where many are invited, ices and salads are more often served to the guests. In planning for a tea of any sort select simple refreshments, since good taste dictates simplicity rather than elaborate outlay. Dainty service means far more than an elaborate Digitized by Google display of food, for it suggests care and devotion on the part of the hostess and thereby shows her desire to entertain her guests. Recipes for tea, cakes, and sandwiches appropriate for afternoon teas may be found by consulting the index of this book. Fancy crackers may be purchased at the grocers. Digitized by Google CAMP COOKERY Cooking Apparatus. — To the enthusiastic camper a camp fire may be found satisfactory for cooking one or two meals. But for several days' camping out an oil stove is a marked addition to comforts in camp life, and a decided relief from the constant care and from the exercise of the practiced skill required to keep a good camp fire. So it may be said that a very important article in a camping outfit is a good stove. There are now many excellent oil stoves with portable ovens. For outings they seem to give greater satisfaction than any other kind of stoves, as they, are light themselves and operate with a fuel which is cheap, readily obtained, and easily carried.