BREAKFAST IN BED

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 143, 2 June 1936, Page 10

BREAKFAST IN BED

Some Donts It is sometimes very much more convenient for a housewife to treat the occasional guest to breakfast in bed than to have the meal with the family. If there are children to be got off to school and breakfast resolves itself into a kind of hectic running buffet, it is an easier matter to give the guest her meal in bed than to attempt to get a calm and sociable breakfast for all in the dining-room. But do, please, give her what she likes. It is an alarming experience to be faced with a trayful of things which are not liked, and if the food is left it will not escape notice. Wake your guest, to begin witn, with an early morning cup of tea. Then you can reasonably expect her to wait for her breakfast while you get the children off to school and the workers of the household duly fed and out of the way. Now get out your guest’s twiy, which should be big enough for comfort, but not heavy. Use a dainty traycloth, and don't forget a linen table napkin. Give her grapefruit with the fruit loosened a little with a knife; bacon and eggs if she likes them, or else fish, poached eggs on toast, herring roes, or sardines on toast. Let her have toast and marmalade after this. Let her have a small tea or coffee pot of her own, and don’t forget to put plenty of sugar, milk, marmalade, and butter on the tray. Once a girl stayed with a friend for the first time, and her breakfast was brought upstairs. Alas! there was no milk on the tray, and, not liking to ask for any, she drank her tea without it, hating it heartily. When her hostess came into the bedroom for a chat she was horrified and upset to find she had forgotten the milk. “Oh, but I like tea without milk,” her visitor liefl in haste, “I never take it.” Now, whenever she visits this particular friend, no milk is offered to her. She is still waiting an opportunity to say she has developed a taste for it.—An exchange.