Picnics

Where eating out of doors concerns a picnic, choose foods that are moist and easy to carry, and include plenty of salad ingredients and fresh fruits. Meat is by no means an impossibility – cold fried chicken legs or duck portions are excellent; cold cooked sausages or small cutlets taken from the best end of neck of lamb roasted and eaten cold are delicious, and slices of any cold roast meat carry well. Eggs can be hard-boiled and stuffed with a variety of ingredients. Also excellent are cold cooked open omelettes. Make them rather firmer than when they are eaten hot and add chopped fried onion or thinly sliced fried mushrooms. Cold Spanish omelette is another good choice.