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CHINA MATS

Nosebag Snacks For The Little Ones

are we having for piped lunch to-day?” Elizabeth Craig the Second from over a bowl of grapefruit I'd like lots of Skabetti cheese." she con- tinued, as I helped ber to two slices of buttered brown bread and honey, and a cup of weak tea, "and plenty of ice cream."

BY ELIZABETH

CRAIG

salad Cream

shredded lettuce. Butter Wafers

Use fenjor

day out with your hope fuls is not only to provide an ad

child's nose- together equate meal for each

Capacious „nose- cream cheese, moistened with bag, but to carry cream, and season minced onion to bag with extra supplies and a sur-

prise packet of lollipops as well. taste

Half the fun of a day out

hes Bridge Rolls-Split, butter and sandwich with chopped ham and in a change of fare as well as a cress moistened with mayonnaise.change of scenery This is equally When I take Elizabeth the Second worth remembering when catering 4. Don't forget to pack sand- wiches and rolls in greaseproof pa-out for a day, I always slip a little for grown-ups.

extra food into my nosebag in case feels hungry later Allow

sandwiches she tomato อ.

ttle made from two slices of bread and Sometimes it consists of

box of one of her favourite cakes. Never heard of a "nosebag lun-one sausage roll per child..

Tiny sponge sandwiches about cheon"! It's simply a well-chosen 6 If children have very hearty light meal that can be carried in appetites, pack a wedge of spiced 24in. in diameter, some put toge a paper bag if you like. Let's plan fruity cake in each nosebag as wellther with raspberry, some with stage one or two suitable for children go- ing off for the day perhaps to the

"The spaghetti will have to wait,” I answered. "You must hurry up and help me to pack nosebag lun- cheons, for we're going out for the day.

beach.

MENU 1

Cheese Sandwiches Stuffed Eggs

Pineapple Blancmange Oranges.

CHEESE SANDWICHES

1 cupful grated cheese, salt and pepper to taste, 2 tablespoonfuls chopped walnuts, 2 tablespoonfuls butter, tomato catsup to taste.

Beat butter till creamy. Stir in and cheese, walnuts, salt, pepper tomato catsup to taste. Use as a filling with white bread and shred- ded lettuce. Allow sandwiches made from two slices of bread per child. TO STUFF EGGS

Hard-boil eggs. Halve Remove yolks into a basin. Moisten to taste with butter. Mash till smooth. Sea- son with salt, pepper, and minced paraley to taste. Return to shells. Press together. Wrap each in lettuce leaf. Allow one egg per child.

PINEAPPLE BLANCMANGE

Make a cornflour blancmange with 1202 to 202 cornflour and loz. to 2oz. sugar to a pint of milk. Mix cornflour to a paste with a little of the milk. Heat remainder with sugar to boiling point. Stir into creamed cornflour mixture

Turn into the top of a double boiler. Add a pat of butter. Cook, stirring constantly, until thick. Flavour to taste with vanilla essence. Stir in 2oz. diced drained pineapple.

One pint makes enough for four children. When cool; pour into card- board cartons. Allow one, holding a quarter-pint, per child.

To enrich mixture, stir one beaten egg, or two yolks and the stifly frothed whites, into mixture the mo ment you take the pan off the stove

MENU 2

Tomato Sandwiches Rolls Peach Jelly.

TOMATO SANDWICHES

Sausage

ananas.

Scald, and peel tomatoes. Chill.

Slice and use salted and and pep

ed between slices of

white bread.

SAUSAGE ROLLS

Pick boil, skin and

brown and

slice

sausages Use for filling split

tered bridge rolls, or

puff pastry and bake in a hot oven

PEACH JELLY

Melt a lemon-

per.

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OTHER FILLINGS

White Bread Chopped hard boiled egg, moistened melted but ter. Season Use with peeled tomato slices.

White Bread (for older children). Chopped cold chicken, mixed with

Coloured Jackets

Leading summer colours at this to be white black, ging-

strawberry jam, and whipped creamer, all the burnt shades, yellow, the fruit in light blues and greens and deep, I usually pack some

dusty pink It is smart to combine season as well

two tones of one colour for sports-- wear, such as lilac and parma, pink and fuchsia, and to have plain white wardro of sports dresses with

This week I took a chocolate box filled with Victoria plums. Last week, the box was filled with plump, ripe gooseberries.

The thing to do if you want to jackets.

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