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One hundred picnic suggestions

1915

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Presented as published in 1915. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Chop 2 cups of H. O. (rolled oats), add 1 cup of seeded and cut raisins, 1 cup of pecans or walnuts, broken in small pieces, and 1 cup of butter creamed with 1 scant cup of sugar. Add 3 beaten eggs and % teasp. of soda dissolved in J^ cup of milk. Add the grated rind of 1 orange and 1 tbsp. of the juice, and 2 cups of flourOatmeal Drop Cakes. Drop from small spoon on buttered tin and bake. When cool pack in layers in a box with paraffine paper between each layer. Ill Peanut Cookies Cream 4 tbsps. of butter, add }/£ cup of sugar, 2 beaten eggs, 2 tbsps. milk, }/% teasp. of salt and 1 teasp. of lemon-juice. Beat well and add 1 cup of flour sifted with 1 J^ teasps. of baking-powder and 2 cups of chopped peanutsPeanut Cookies. Drop from a teaspoon onto a tin sheet covered with buttered paper, place a whole peanut in centre of each and bake in a slow oven. When cold pack in tin box with waxed paper between the layers. Picnic Cake Cream J/£ cup of butter, add 1 cup of sultana raisins dredged with flour, 1 cup of sugar, and 2 beaten yolks. Add, alternately, 2 cups of flour sifted with 2 teasps. of baking-powder, and % cup of milk. Season with 1 teasp. of cinnamon, J^ teasp. each, of salt and nutmeg, and 1 teasp. of vanilla. Fold in the beaten egg whites and bake in a tin wafer box 30 min- utes. While quite warm spread with creamed butter, dust with granulated sugar and cinnamon, sprinkle with minced nuts, and return to oven until a crust is formed. When cool put on cover of the box. There will be too much dough for the box, but the re- mainder may be used for drop cakes. 113 Pound Cake Cream 1 cup of butter, add 1 ^ cups of flour. Beat 1 cup of eggs with 1 J^ cups of sugar until very light and lemon color. Add this to the butter and flour mixture and beat 20 minutes, flavor with 1 tbsp. of brandy, 1 teasp. of vanilla, and 2 drops of the oil of nutmegPound Cake. Bake in a bread tin 1 hour. Citron or fruit may be added if liked. This cake will keep fresh a long time. 114 Rock Cakes Cream 1 cup of butter, add 1 cup of fine granulated sugar, 3 beaten eggs and beat well. Add 1 cup of flour sifted with ^2 teasp. of baking-powder and beat 15 minutes. Add 1 cup each of seeded raisins or sultanas, currants, and chopped nuts (almonds, walnuts, or pecans), and 3 tbsps. of brandy. A few chopped dates may also be added, if at hand. Drop from a spoon onto a buttered paper and bake in a quick oven. These will keep for a long time. Wrap each one in paraf- fine paper and pack in a tin box. 115 Sweet Sandwiches Any conserve or marmalade may be used with minced nuts and spread between slices of buttered breadSweet Sandwiches. Both white and en tire- wheat or gra- ham bread may be used. Jellies may be mixed with cream or cottage cheese and spread between buttered crack- ers. Raisins and nuts, moistened with grape- juice — white bread. Shaved maple sugar and cream — entire- wheat bread. Sliced bananas and red rasp- berries mashed with cream — white bread. Preserved ginger — white bread. Stoned dates and walnut meats — entire-wheat bread. The butter for spreading should always be creamed. Wrap in wax paper. 116 Index INDEX PAGE FOR THE PICNIC BASKET 1 Baked Beans with Relish 3 Baked Beans Roll with Sausage ... 4 Baked Beans Savory 5 Bologna Biscuit 6 Eggs Delicieuse 7 Eggs Stuffed 8 Ham Shortcakes 9 SANDWICHES 11 Bloater or Anchovy Sandwiches ... 13