The Laurel Health Cookery: A Collection of Practical Suggestions and Recipes for the Preparation of Non-Flesh Foods in Palatable and Attractive Ways

or if in a salt shake, screw a piece of thick paper under the top and wrap well. Have sugar in a wide-mouthed bottle or jar, also ripe olives. Rice or custard puddings can be carried in cups. Bottled fruit juices are invaluable. Lemon juice sufficient for one day may be bottled. A jar of cold cereal coffee or of tea-hygiene with cream would be highly prized by many. Trumese in Tomato or Sauce Imperial, well dried in the oven, is excellent. Fruit buns retain their moisture nicely. Wrap sandwiches, buns, cakes, eggs and nut foods in waxed paper, and if there are different kinds of sandwiches mark them. For a simple luncheon without a knife or spoon, pare oranges and break them into sections, and pare, quarter and core apples, and wrap all in waxed paper. These fruits with a trumese and egg sandwich (p. 472) make an ideal midday luncheon when spending the day in the city on business. One lady who has travelled a great deal tells me that she has found a small white apron with a pocket a great convenience in serving and eating lunches on trains, and a gentleman suggests that a short apron with a bib and strap and a pocket for the napkin would be a great convenience for those of his sex. Some of the strong pasteboard boxes that package foods come in, make good lunch boxes. We have one about 22 in. long, 9 in. wide and 6 in. deep that we can carry in a shawl strap, which we prize. The dining car has no attractions compared with the comforts of a nice home luncheon for travelling. INDEX =Breads, Leavened=, 424 Beadles, 443 Biscuit, Breakfast, 442 Potato, 441 Raised, 441 Split, 441 Boston Brown, 434 Buns, Currant, 443 Lemon, 443 Nut, 443 Plain, 442 Cakes, Buckwheat, Bread Crumbs, 444 Old Time, 444 Crumb, 444 Corn Cake, 435 Corn Meal, Scalded, 434 Crackers, Soup, 438 Crisp, 433 Crust, Sour Cream, 437 Universal, 437 Delicious, 433 Flour, 426 Fruit, 431 Graham, 431 Irish, 431 New York “Home Made,” 432 Nut, 431