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Why Not A Daily Surprise

THE CHINA MÁIL, MAY 6, 1939

PACKED INTO THE LUNCH-BOX?

Here are some recipes to help 'you!

just try them. New

and delicious sandwiches, simply and quickly made, but sp ap. petising for school and office lunches.

UNCHES? Sandwiches?

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shall give them to-day? The eternal problem

What

and

almost every housewife and mother knows just how difficult the pro- blem is.

Especially now the children are back at school again.

same

old

Children tire of the sandwiches every day, hastily pre- pared with anything handy in the way of a bit of meat or egg.

Even the healthiest young appe- tites find food monotony palling. And who could. blame a child for despising an uninteresting lurch?

You'd probably be surprised if you knew how often a dull 'sand- wich, rejected by a young palate, provides. a meal for any stray ani- mal that may be around.

Witty

Kitty

THAT RACHET

WHAT WAS

I HEARD

3.30

10 1929, by Dell Syndicale) An optimist is he who thinks he can build air castles and not have them blow up.

And as it's not in a child's nature to confess that he gave his lunch- to a hungry dog-he doesn't want to hurt your feelings by letting you think he didn't like the lunch you prepared for him-it never occurs to you that your small son or healthful lunch that provides more daughter may not be having suf-vitamins for those energetic, never- ficient food, not to mention ade still youngsters.

All quate nourishment.

these healthy ingredients

difference.. So guard against the possibility must make a of such happenings by making lun-fruit, the salad, and, of course, the cheons so interesting that they will mayonnaise. be eaten to the last sandwich with Mayonnaise, because it lifts your great relish.

sandwiches out of the rut. It keeps them from going dry and tasteless. It gives added piquancy, and in- creases the nutritiousness of sand- wiches made with salad.

Pack a surprise into them every day. It's really quite easy if you just spare a little thought.

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You will like them yourself. Só will young members of the family who go into office, shop or factory

Here are a few simple recipes quick and easy to prepare that change the habitual "door-steps" of bread-with-meat-in-between into tasty, appetising sandwiches that every day. will make any appetite fairly hank- - er for lunch-time to come around.

For the kiddies, they make a new

SALAD BISCUITS

-bread, butter, and whatever-you- |pared mayonnaise. Spread whole- put-inside-plus a few crisp lete meal bread slices with butter and tuce leaves, garnishings such as then spread with the sardine mix- olives or gherkins and a good ma-ture. Add thin slices of skinned yonoise.

tomato before sandwiching the A really excellent prepared ma- pieces together. yonnaise can be bought for a few pence, the advantage being that it If you have an extra minute, but¬ not only saves many hours of not ter some dry biscuits, add a slice always satisfactory cooking, but it of lettuce, cucumber, beet, gherkin, keeps indefinitely, and what a sava spoonful of prepared. mayonnaise, ing in time in those rushed early more lettuce, and top with a dry hours of the day.

biscuit. What a mouth-watering mouthful!

That's all let's go!

MEAT SANDWICHES

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and

EGG SALAD SANDWICHES Here's to disguising the every- Hard-boil one or two eggs day meat sandwich! Lightly butter rub through a sieve, Mix with your bread (or rolls) and wipe a them a little pepper and salt and a spoonful of prepared mayonnaise spoonful of prepared mayonnaise. over, before placing the meat. Add Spread thickly between slices of lettuce or gherkin or sliced radish bread or bridge rolls lightly. but-

or, if you prefer, a slice of apple tered. or orange, another dash of mayon- naise, and you have a sandwich the most jaded palate would welcome,

· GREEN SANDWICHES Make a mixture in a bowl, of shredded lettuce, watercress, and MINCE SPREAD

parsley divided into tiny sprigs, Never are meat "left-overs” more but not chopped. Then spread tasty than when minced and mixed slices of white or brown bread (or with a dash of prepared mayon-some of each) with butter and a naise. Spread on brown bread, add little prepared mayonnaise, and put a thin layer of sliced banana, let-the pieces together with plenty of tuce leaf, and eat.

the green salad between. FRUIT SANDWICH

SMOKED KIPPER SANDWICH Banana, pear, peach, apple, in Flake a cooked kipper with a fact, most summer fruits make de-fork and moisten. it with some pre- licious spreads. Use brown bread pared mayonnaise. Spread some or rolls, butter thinly. Add sliced slices of bread or bridge rolls with, fruit and prepared mayonnaise-butter. Pepper the kipper well and and a dash of orange juice if you place in the sandwich between two like and you have a tasty sand-lettuce leaves. Add some cress wich that is good for you.

and grated radishes if liked, Kip- per used in this way tastes very If you like salmon, there's no-like expensive smoked salmon. thing more delicious than the addi- tion of prepared mayonnaise. Mix with salmon, season with pepper and salt, and spread, using plenty of fresh lettuce. Rolls sliced and prepared in the same way are equally tasty.

SALMON MIX

SARDINE SALAD SANDWICH Skin and bone a small tin of sar- And here's the secret of these ap-dines and pound them up with pre- petising, zestful recipes. All you need is your usual sandwich base

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