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6 thin slices graham bread 0300

6 ginger snaps 0050

% package dates 0500

Two lunches cost $0.2258

Or $0.1129 each.

Take 1 hard-boiled egg and crum- ble down the yolk; put the butter in and mix it smooth with a spoon; then add the. salt, pepper, mustard and cheese, mixing each well. Put the vinegar in, and it should be the right thickness. Spread between .slices of bread. This makes six small or three large sandwiches. — Mrs. G. Spencer.

Ginger Snaps.

1 c graham flour $0.0148

1% c flour 0211

1 c N. O. molasses 0424

V> c Crisco 0694

l"t soda 0007

1 egg (cooking) 0400

1 t ginger UOM

% t salt 0001

Gas oven, 30 minutes Ozdo

5 dozen ginger snaps cost. .. $0.2203

Or 4V2c per dozen.

Put the Crisco in a warm place to soften, stir the soda into the mo- lasses till it is foamy, then add to the Crisco, mix well next the beaten egg, ginger and salt, roll out thin, bake in a moderate oven. This recipe makes 60 excellent ginger snaps. — Mrs. G. Spencer, 1260 East Davis st. MENU BY MRS. HOWARD. Lunch for Office Worker.

Three sandwiches; one of minced or thinly sliced meat between thin slices of buttered bread, one of minced eggs or of cream cheese and nuts or chopped ripe olives, and one of peanut butter and honey.

One small jar of baked beans.

One or two pickles or a few olives.

One or two small cakes and a small jar of home canned fruit or an apple, orange or banana.

A pint bottle of milk should be in- cluded in the lunch. — Mrs. Grace A. Howard, 750 Kelly street, city.

(Mrs. Howard is used to hearty ap- petites. This is more than an office worker would eat. Consider Mrs. Spencer's office lunches, which rather go to the other extreme.)

MENU BY MRS. BRITTING.

Office Lunch.

Patti Sandwiches, Fruit Cake, Pears.

Cost. 2 large or 4 small liver patti

sandwiches $0.0432

1 large slice fruit cake 0200

2 Winter Nellis pears, 15c doz. .0250

1 loaf home-made bread $0.0600

4 slices of bread 0250

Patti Paste.

Cost. Liver $0.1000

2 T onion 0020

4 T duck fat 0000

Vz t salt 0001

Pinch pepper 0001

Gas, 15 min 0029

Cost of paste $0.1051

Fry liver in 2 T duck or goose fat left from Thanksgiving. If not duck or goose fat, use Crisco or bacon drip- ping. Fry slowly 15 min. When cold put through finest grinder, add 2 T finely chopped onions, 2 T melted duck fat, salt and pepper. Mix well. This is a delicious paste and will keep for some time in a cool place. Will spread about 12 sandwiches. Apple Sauce Cake.

Cost. 1 c apple sauce $0.0200

1 c sugar 0417

2 c flour 0282

1 t baking powder 0021

1 T butter 0156

1 t soda 0007

4 T boiling water 0000

1 c chopped nuts 1250

1 c seedless raisins 0500

Gas, iy2 hours 0383

Mix apple sauce, sugar and melted

butter, add flour into which has been

sifted 1 t baking powder, dissolve

1 t soda in 4 T boiling water. Mix all together, add fruit and nuts last. Bake 1,% hours. Will keep like any fruit cake. I will try % c Karo in place of sugar next time. This is a splendid cake and very cheap. — Mrs. Maude Britting, 53 North Eighteenth street.

MENU BY MRS. KRUSE.

Office Lunch.

2 slices white bread $0.0044

1 t butter 0032

Cold chicken (left over) 0200

2 slices rye bread 0038

1 T ground peanuts 0050

1 t mayonnaise dressing 0100

4 olives 0100

1 c custard (my recipe in Fri- day's paper), (steamed cus- tard 0350

Apple -0100

$0.1014 Spread butter on sandwiches and cut the cold chicken in bits for first sandwich; mix the peanuts and dress- ing and spread on bread for second sandwich. — Mrs. F. W. Kruse, 131 V2 E. Eighteenth street, city.

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LUNCHES FOR OUTDOOR WORKERS

Lunches for Outdoor Workers

MENU BY MRS. HOWARD. Lunch for Manual Worker.

Two sliced meat or minced fish sandwiches.

One peanut butter and honey sand- wich.

One jar baked beans or baked mac- aroni with cheese.

One apple turnover or two or three small cakes and a small jar of home- canned fruit.

One apple, orange or banana.

For the manual laborer, sandwiches are better and more nourishing if made from whole wheat or rye bread, instead of white.

If one has a thermos bottle, it is well to add it to the lunch, filled with hot coffee.

Cup Cakes. Cost

V-2. c corn syrup $0.0313

1 egg 0400

Vi c Mazola oil or Crisco 0694

1 c sweet milk 0268

2 c flour 0296

iy2 t baking powder 0032

% t salt 0001

1 t vanilla extract 0292

Total $0.2296

Mix sugar or syrup and oil together. Add the egg 'which has been whipped very light, then the milk, and extract, and, lastly, the flour in which has been mixed the baking powder and salt. Mix well, and bake from 15 to 25 minutes in well-oiled gem pans.

If desired, a few currants or rais- ins or a little cocoanut may be added. Apple Turnover.

Roll pie dough into square pieces. Slice apples as if for pie. Place in the middle of square, flavor with cin- namon or allspice, sweeten with a lit- tle corn syrup, and fold the dough over, pinch firmly together, and bake till well done. — Mrs. Grace A. Howard, 750 Kelly street, Portland.

MENU BY MRS. KRUSE. Outdoor Work Lunch. Cost 4 slices white bread $0.0088

2 hard boiled eggs (chopped and mixed with salt and pep- per and a little butter spread between bread) 1000

2 T butter 0300

2 slices rye bread 0038

1 T jam or jelly 0150

1 c beans 0200

2 doughnuts 0200

2-3 pt. hot coffee (in Thermos

bottle) 0350

1 c prune sauce 0250

— Mrs. F. W. Kruse, 131% East Eigh- teenth street, city.

(I -want to thank Mrs. Kruse for having her recipes so exceptionally well written and priced with abso- lute correctness so far as I can esti- mate.)

MENU BY MRS. WILLIAMS. Lunch for Working Man.

Four slices home-made bread (two white and two Graham), \y2 table- spoonfuls butter, 14 pound hamburger steak rolled very thin on a floured board and fried in y2 tablespoonful butter, seasoned with pepper and salt; two cookies, two pickles, home-made; six dates, one apple. — Mrs. W. W. Williams, 1411 Rodney avenue.

MENU BY MRS. OATFIELD.

Lunch for Man Working Outside.

Cost. 2 rye bread, cheese sandwiches.$0.0956

2 whole wheat bread tongue

and horseradish sandwiches.. .1482 1 raspberry turnover 0231

$0.2669 Rye Bread.

Yeast — Cost.

1-3 cake Magic yeast (soaked

in y2c water) $0.0027

1 pint potato water 0000

1 lb. white flour 0563

Yeast (above) 0000

1 c water 0000

3 c white flour 0423

Sponge (as above) 0000

1 c water 0000

1 T salt 0008

1 lb. rye flour 0750

Fuel (wood) 1 hour 0204

4 1-lb. loaves $0.1975

Or $0.0493 per loaf.

1 T butter $0.0156

Cheese, 1-5 lb. (30c lb.) 0600

4 slices bread 0200

Cost of sandwiches given above $0.0956

Whole Wheat Bread.

Costs 6 cents per loaf to make.

4 slices bread $0.0200

1 T butter 0156

Boiled tongue (about) 1000

Horseradish (2 t) 0126

Cost of sandwiches given above $0.1482 Raspberry Turnover.

1 y2 c flour $0.0211

% c Crisco 0347

1-3 t salt 0001

1-3 t baking powder 0012

y2 c water 0000

Fuel, gas, 20 minutes 0083

1 quart home fruit (1-3 used).. .0500

Cost of 5 turnovers $0.1156

Strain off some of fruit juice. Di- vide crust in five parts. Roll each piece out. Pierce pattern on half used for crust, place fruit on %, fold over, moisten edge. Crimp a border with fingers. — Mrs. John Oatfield, Milwau- kie. Or.