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Pack a little imagination into that picnic basket — and these old-fashioned recipes with a modern accent!
Doris day is an old-fashioned miss when it comes to planning a picnic party. There are a thousand and one fancies you can tuck in a basket, but Doris thinks there will be long faces if good old potato salad and fried chicken are not highlights.
Doris remembers how, when she was a little girl, her mother put flour, salt and black pepper in a paper bag, added the cleaned dried pieces of chicken and gave it a good shaking. So that’s the way she does it. Then she fries it to a golden brown in a good amount of fat in a heavy iron frying pan. After it is brown she covers it and lets it steam a few minutes — there’s nothing worse than pink-in-the-middle chicken!
For potato salad, Doris boils potatoes with their skins on, cools, peels and cubes them and adds chopped hardboiled egg, diced celery and onion, loads of mayonnaise, a little wine vinegar, salad dressing, a little prepared mustard, salt and pepper. She does not go for fancy fixin’s such as anchovies, cheese, etc., but uses her imagination in decorating the top with ohves, tomatoes, sliced egg, etc. Deviled eggs are another must. Boil fresh eggs for at least 10 minutes, cut in half the long way then mix the yolks with mayonnaise, mustard, salt and pepper and stuff back into the whites. Stick them together with a toothpick.
Doris just loves to fix candied apples and popcorn balls. For 12 apples: Combine 2 cups sugar, % cup
light com sirup, 1 cup water and a pinch of salt. Toss in a cinnamon stick for flavor and boil imtil the mixture makes a thin thread. Just before dipping the apples, color the sirup a brilUant red, or any other color you fancy. Get skewers from your butcher and stick them through the apples to dip (no burned fingers). Let them harden on wax paper.
Popcorn balls: Pop the com first in a popcorn popper or a covered Dutch oven. For simp: In a heavy saucepan, combine % cup molasses, IV2 cup sugar, Vz cup water, 1 tsp. vinegar, a pinch of salt and bring to a boil over low heat. Cook untfl. the sirup makes a hard ball in cold water and, last, stir in 3 tbsp. butter. Put popcorn in a huge bowl and add mixture, stirring with a wooden spoon. Grease hands shghtly with butter and press popcorn into balls. (This recipe makes 24 balls.) Roll in wax paper. Yummy!
For sandwiches, Doris uses fresh, squashy bread — cut thin and buttered. Some she leaves unfilled and for others she uses thin slices of cucumber and fresh watercress. These are refreshing and tasty with chicken. She gives the cucumbers and watercress a quick dip in French dressing, and sprinkles with salt and coarse groimd black pepper.
When it comes to cookies, Doris buys icebox rolls and bakes them the day before the picnic. A nice watermelon and aU is set for a happy picnic party.
The boys made the fire for the coffee while the girls spread out the food. Douglas Dick couldn’t wait for the rest — he just dived right in. Instead of water, Doris filled a canteen with pink lemonade, a little on the sour side