derstanding at the outset what eatables each
one is to bring. One girl may promise to furnish a certain proportion
of the rolls or sandwiches, and another, part of the cake. Others may
promise cold or potted meats, sardines, stuffed eggs, Saratoga
potatoes, olives, pickles, fruit, lemonade and cold coffee. Salad may
easily be carried if the lettuce and chicken or lobster are arranged
in a dish set in a basket, and the dressing contained in a
wide-mouthed bottle or pickle jar. The best way to transport lemonade,
if fresh water can be readily procured at the picnic grounds, is to
take the lemon juice and sugar in a jar, adding the water after the
party reach their destination. Apollinaris water is excellent for
lemonade. The coffee and milk should have been put together before
leaving home, but the sugar is carried separately.

Tongue and Sandwiches.

To begin with the substantials, a cold roast, a boiled tongue, deviled
eggs, are simple and tasty. The roast may be sliced off before going,
and carefully wrapped up, but the tongue should be carried whole and
cut up when required, or it is apt to become dry. The eggs are easily
prepared, being hard boiled, cut lengthwise, the yolks taken out,
mixed in a bowl with pepper, salt and mustard, and a few drops of
Worcester and put back again in the whites.

Different kinds of sandwiches may be served. For one time there may be
finger-rolls, split, the inside hollowed out and filled with chopped
chicken or tongue, and the two sides tied together with the narrowest
of ribbon. Again, bread and butter, cut wafer thin and rolled, may
appear. Sweetbread sandwiches, sardine sandwiches, egg sandwiches, are
delicious and easily prepared variations upon the everlasting ham and
tongue. Very dainty sandwiches are made of two thicknesses of thin
bread and butter, with a layer between of cream cheese and chopped
water cress. The fruit should be heaped in a basket or arranged as a
centerpiece with the flowers.

Ice cream may be taken to a picnic without much additional trouble.
The brick molds can be so packed by a confectioner in a pail of ice
that there will be no danger of the cream melting. For this, of
course, wooden plates are not available, but china saucers will have
to be transported. For the sweets some plain cake and bon-bons, and a
box of crystallized ginger are all-sufficient. Cold tea, with lemon
and ice, is certainly the most refreshing and satisfactory.

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