One hundred picnic suggestions

This is an imitation Newburgh, as no wine is used. Cook 2 tbsps. of butter with 1 teasp. of flour, add the mashed yolks of 2 hard-boiled eggs, ½ teasp. each of mustard and salt and a dash each of cayenne and nutmeg. Add ¾ cup of cream, 2 cups of diced lobster meat and the chopped egg-whites. When boiling add 1 beaten yolk mixed with ¼ cup of cream, take from fire, add 1 teasp. of tarragon vinegar, and turn at once into the hot thermos vacuum jar. Little Meat Pies Line large, deep patty tins with rich pastry, cut the remainder of the dough into rounds to fit the tins and cut a slit in the centre of each. Fill the pies with diced cooked chicken, lamb, or veal, adding a very little diced ham or broiled bacon, if at hand, pour in strong, highly seasoned stock, add a little minced parsley and grated onion, wet edges of the pastry in cold water and press on the covers. Bake in a hot oven. Just before taking from the oven brush with slightly beaten egg-white to glaze them. When cold, remove from the tins and pack each one in waxed paper and lay them in a box. Oysters a la King, Hot Dip 1 pt. of oysters, one by one, into a bowl of cold water, heat this water and strain through cheese-cloth. Add the oysters to this liquor and cook until the oysters are parboiled. Strain the liquor again, reserving ¾ cup of it. Cook 2 tbsps. of butter and 2 of flour, add the J/£ cup of liquor, and ½ cup of cream. Add ¾ cup of mushrooms sauted in butter and cut in slivers, ¼ cup of diced celery cooked until tender, 1 tbsp. of green pepper parboiled and minced, and season with salt, pepper, a tbsp. of brandy, and ½ teasp. of any good table sauce. Turn into the hot thermos vacuum jar. Rolls Filled with Salad Cut a piece from the bottom of long dinner rolls, scoop out the inside, fill with salad (anything mixed with mayonnaise), touch the edges of the piece taken out with white of egg and replace it in the roll. Wrap each one separately in waxed paper and serve with any of the hot things given in this book. Salmon Mould Flake 2 cups of boiled salmon, or use canned salmon, rinsing it in hot and then in cold water. Cook in a double boiler 2 tbsps. of butter, 1 of sugar, 1 of flour, 1 teasp. of mustard, J/2 teasp. of salt, and a little cayenne or paprika. Add ¾ cup of rich milk and when thick, take from fire and add 2 tbsps. of vinegar in which minced onion, parsley, and chilli pepper have been soaked. Add 1 tbsp. of gelatine softened in 2 tbsps. of cold water and turn into a baking-powder can or small bread-pan. When cold, wrap in a cloth wet in ice-water and then in a thick paper. Serve with sandwiches or with salad rolls. Veal Curry, Hot Cook 2 tbsps. of butter with ½ teasp. of minced onion until brown, add 2 tbsps. of browned flour, 1 teasp. of curry-powder dissolved in 1 cup of cream and veal gravy, half of each, add 1 tbsp. of grated cocoanut or blanched almonds, and season well with salt and cayenne. Add 2 cups of cooked veal cut in dice. Turn into the hot thermos vacuum jar and place in the motor hamper. Salads Chicken Salad