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Show DELIGHTFUL FAMILY AUTOMOBILE PICNIC A j:. - Why Not Take the Ice Cream Freezer Along? Prprd bV th UDlted Statea Department Depart-ment of Agriculture.) Part of the fun of the week-end motor outing Is the picnic lunch. If the drive covers much distance there may be two out-of-doors lunches. It is a good idea to keep a special basket or picnic box on hand with enamel or jiaper plates, cups, knives, forks, spoons, bread knife, can and bottle openers, salt, pepper, waxed paper and paper napkins ready for the call of the open. Preparations can be quickly and easily made If these essential accessories ac-cessories are at hand In one place. There Is no hard and fast rule that .all sandwiches must be made before starling. Put a loaf of bread, u put butter, and whatever tilling you liuve available, into the picnic kit. When a halt is made for lunch, bread may be cut by one person, buttered by another, spread with filling by a third, and In the midst of much sociability the sandwiches will be produced as ,'ust as they can be eutpn. When sandwiches sand-wiches are thus, as it were, made to order, one stops to think whether another an-other Is really wanted or not. When 'boxes of sandwiches are brought from home the tendency Is to keep eating them while they last. Most people eat more bread In this way than usual, and with other starchy food carried because of convenience, the meal becomes be-comes unbalanced. Why not take salad ingredients along, suggests the bureau of home economics? I-ettuce- and celery, wrapped In damp cloths, tomatoes, and cucumbers can be carried in good condition. con-dition. Put the mayonnaise in a screw-top screw-top jar, and the butter in another. If the dny is very warm set them in a )ox or bucket of chopped Ice. People sometimes take an Ice cream freezer if there Is room In Hie cur. Sutter and milk will keep splendidly beside the Ice ci-enin can. You need not have bread sandwiches sand-wiches at nil. Split rolls or biscuits answer the same purpose, or unsweetened unsweet-ened crnrkers may be used. Hy way of dessert, cup ctfkes and cookies are easier to handle than layer cakes and (Mes. Figs, prunes, dales, ' and raisins satisfy the desire for something eweet that uiny he eaten witlT the fingers, while almost, any fresh fruits are ex cellent. Try taking washed strawberries straw-berries with the hulls on. Use the hulls to hold the berries as they are dipped In powdered sugar and eaten. If you make a fire in the open you can have toasted frankfurters or bacon ba-con or a sleak or clmps. Fresh-caught fish may be cooked in a skillet over a camp fire, too. Don't forget to take the proper precautions for extinguishing extinguish-ing any fires you make. In lieu of building a fire, a hot drink, such as cocoa or coffee, may be taken in a vacuum bottle. Ice-cold milk may be put in these bottles for the children. If you are likely to have two road side meals, provide something differ ent for each, just as you would at home. A small cooked ham Is a good addition to the lunch basket for the second meal, or some American cheese, or hard-boiled eggs, or any cauneTl meats that slice conveniently. Don't forget the can opener, however' Automobiles sometimes develop troubles trou-bles at awkward spots where no food can be obtained, and It is a comfortable comfort-able feeling to know that you have the next meal with you whether you need It or not. Extra bread and but ter may not be amiss. The bottle opener, too, must not be left at home. You will surely need grape juice or ginger ale before the day Is over. Orange juice and milk are good for the children If the grownups are having coffee. Carry drinking watei from home rather than risk drinking from strange springs or wells. Leave one or two drinking cups out of the packed-up lunch kit, with the water, and a box of graham crackers for the children. Driving Id the open, air Is likely to whet their appetites, and a mid-morning cracker with milk, orange or-ange juice, or water, may be counted as an extra meal, rather than "piecing." "piec-ing." Sweets, salted nuts, chocolate bars, and other thirst-provoking foods often nibbled at between stops are best omitted. Your picnic spot will undoubtedly be chosen for Its charm and beauty. When the meal Is over, pick up all papers and other refuse, and burn or bury them. Leave the woods as you would like to find them. |