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or as the nature of the occasion and the elasticity of the appetites demand. One
piece of good advice to picnickers is to try to get under the wing of some good
farm-house, where coffee may be boiled, and nice rich cream, green corn, good
water, etc., may be readily foraged; and for a Fourth of July picnic, nothing
will taste better than a dish of new potatoes, nicely prepared at the
farm-house. But if not so fortunate, a good fire may be built, where all things
may be merrily prepared. In fact, in the spring and fall, the fire is a
necessity for roasting or broiling game, ham, clams, fish, corn and potatoes,
etc.

A delicious way to roast potatoes, birds, or poultry, or even fish, is to encase
them in a paste made of flour and water, and bake in the embers of a camp-fire;
or build a fire over a flat stone, and when burnt down to coals, clear the
stone, lay on the potatoes, birds, etc., wrapped in wet, heavy brown paper,
cover with dry earth, sand, or ashes, and place the hot coals over these, adding
more fuel. The Gypsies and Indians roast their poultry in mud molds or cases,
covering feathers and all.

The following bills of fare may be picked to pieces and recombined to suit
tastes and occasions:

SPRING PICNICS.--Cold roast chicken; ham broiled on coals; fish fried or
broiled; sardines; tongue; hard-boiled eggs; eggs to be fried or scrambled;
Boston corn bread; buttered rolls; ham sandwiches prepared with grated ham;
orange marmalade; canned peaches; watermelon and beet sweet-pickles; euchered
plums; variety or bottled pickles; chow-chow; quince or plum jelly; raspberry or
other jams; Scotch fruit, rolled jelly, chocolate, Minnehaha, old-fashioned
loaf, and marble cake; coffee, chocolate, tea; cream and sugar; salt and pepper;
oranges.

SUMMER PICNICS.--Cold baked or broiled chicken; cold boiled ham; pickled salmon;
cold veal loaf; Parker House rolls; light bread; box of butter; green corn
boiled or roasted; new potatoes; sliced tomatoes; sliced cucumbers; French and
Spanish pickles; peach and pear sweet-pickles; lemon or orange jelly;
strawberries, raspberries, or blackberries; lemonade; soda-beer or raspberry
vinegar; coffee and tea; ice-cream; lemon or strawberry-ice; sponge, white,
Buckeye, or lemon cake; watermelon, muskmelon, nutmeg-melon.

FALL PICNICS.--Broiled prairie chicken; fish chowder; clam chowder; clams
roasted or fried; beef omelet; cold veal roast; sardines; cold roast chicken;
pot of pork and beans; rusk, Minnesota rolls, Boston brown bread; potatoes,
Irish or sweet, roasted in ashes; egg sandwiches (hard-boiled eggs, sliced,
sprinkled with pepper and salt, and put between buttered bread); mangoes;
piccalilli; Chili sauce; quince marmalade; baked apples; musk and nutmeg-melon;
crab apple jelly; grape jelly; black, orange, velvet, sponge, and three-ply
cake; combination pie.

      Layer Cake

  1 cup sugar 1 1/2 cup of flour

  2 eggs 3 table spoons of butter

  3 tablespoons of milk

  2 teaspoons of Baking Powder

      Suet Pudding

  1 cup of sour milk

  1 " " molasses

  1 " " suet chopped

  1 " " raisins

  1 table spoonfull of cinnamon

  1 " " " cloves

  1 teaspoon full soda

  1 " " of salt

  3 chopped of flour Steam 2 hours

      Dressing

  1 cup brown sugar

  1/2 " " butter, rub it to a cream

  1 table spoon of flour rubbed into the

  butter to sugar, move tablespoon full

  of vinegar 1/2 nutmeg

  Pour boiling hot water on &

  cook two hours when ready for use

  add one teaspoon full of vanilla.

  (Excelent) Mrs. March receipt)

      Crosscakesunclear
3 eggs, 1/2 cup sugar, one cup flour, 2 tablespoons cold water, one teaspoon of
baking powder, little salt, beat well, drop one tablespoon on round tin & spread
a little & bake; when done take at once from the tins and roll the cake of like
a crosscakeunclear have the top side out. roll bottom over and fill with
whipped cream. Sprinkle pulverized sugar and sugar.

      Fruit Cake
(Mrs. Wills)

  1 lb brown sugar

  1 " Butter 1 lb Flour 10 Eggs

  1/2 cup molasses- 1 tablespoons each

  Cloves, Cinnamon & Allspice boiled

  in the molasses- 1 nutmeg. 1 wineglass

  brandy. 1 teaspoon soda- four lbs

  raisins- 2 lbs currants- 1/2 lb of

  flour. rub fruit in one cup

  of flour- bake 3 hours.

      Crullers

  3 eggs

  4 tablespoon sugar

  3 " sweet milk

  4 " lard

  1/2 teas " soda

      Cake

  Break 2 eggs in teacup

  fill with sour cream

  1 cup white sugar

  1 teaspoon soda

  1 " cream tartar.

      Suet Pudding
  1 cup molasses

  1 " sweet milk

  1 " suet

  2 teaspoon soda

  Steam 3 hours

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