The Times cook book, no. 2

napkins. Going on a picnic one does not care to work all the day before to prepare an elaborate lunch and go feeling so tired they cannot enjoy the outing. It is best to prepare something wholesome and appetizing — not so many dainties. Pies, tarts and custards have a habit of getting spilled or mashed. It Is much easier to purchase the thin wooden dishes, which are very inexpensive and light to carry. Put your eatables in them, cover with oil paper, each article. Wrap each sandwich to keep it moist in the paper. Slip your cake onto one of the wooden plates, put another on the top to protect the frosting. Put your salad in one or two, according to the amount you have, of the vegetable-shaped ones; put a piece of oil paper over it, tight; then cover with another dish, and tie it down so the onion in the salad will not penetrate other eatables. Take plenty of sandwiches and less cake. After eating, all wooden dishes can be thrown away, so there will be very little to carry home when one is almost too tired to carry themselves. Small tin cups are light to carry and will last all summer with care. , The cinnamon rolls are easily made by rolling out thin some of the bread dough. Spread with butter, sprinkle with sugar and cinnamon, roll the dough, cut off inch pieces, lay close in pan, put on top more butter, sugar and cinnamon. Let rise very light; bake. MRS. M. S. Lamanda Park, Cal. NO. 5. — PLAIN LUNCH UNIVERSALLY LIKED. Take tender, boiled ham, chop fine and season sparingly with mayonnaise sauce. Have nice new home-made bread, cut thin and butter lightly. Spread the seasoned ham between two slices of bread. To make the sandwich more dainty, cut thin crust off from all sides of the slices. Take a napkin and dampen with cold water and fold the sandwiches in it. This will keep them from becoming dry. Hard-boiled eggs. A dish of baked beans, with the usual condiments to season. Plain bread and butter. Sweet or sour pickles. Any kind of cake or pie the fancy dictates. Cheese and fresh fruit. A bottle of cold coffee, seasoned with milk and sugar. if you have the facilities for making hot tea or coffee you will And it a great addition to a cold lunch, even though it be a hot summer day. A suggestion to the inexperienced; How to make coffee. Take Java and Mocha, mixed, freshly ground; allow 1 tablespoonful of coffee for each person and 1 for the pot; beat up 1 egg, and mix with coffee, shell and all; mix with y2 cup of cold water, then pour on the boiling water. One cup and a half allowed to 1 tablespoon coffee. Measure in tea cup, as coffee cup would make coffee too weak. Boil 15 minutes. Serve with sweet cream and sugar. This ought to insure a cup of delicious coffee. MRS. N. S. ALLING. Lamanda Park, Cal. NO. 6.— PICNIC LUNCH. CHICKEN SANDWICHES. Cut the meat of one cold, boiled chicken fine, add yolks of 6 hard-boiled eggs, previously mashed with a fork, 1 tablespoon each of minced parsley, vinegar and lemon juice, 1 teaspoon onion juice, salt, pepper, y2 teaspoon celery salt, and enough olive oil to moisten sufficiently 'to spread on bread, which should be thinly sliced and but slightly buttered. CHEESE SANDWICHES. Cut bread very thin and spread with soft butter; between the slices place thin slices of cheese (California or Swiss,) spread with lightly-seasoned mustard.