POINTS ABOUT PICNICKING.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20222, 7 October 1927, Page 15

POINTS ABOUT PICNICKING.

Little glass pots with screw tops, such as hold photo-paste, are excellent for the picnic hamper. You can put in them butter (lay a piece of greasepaper on top before screwing down the lid), or sugar or tea, and not find their contents strewn about the hamper when you come to unpack. Wrap each in paper, so that they won’t rattle together. They are a most convenient size and shape for packing. Cut three or four doyleys of greaseproof paper for each cardboard picnic plate, so that there is a clean plate, so to speak, for every “course.” Tne same plate will then serve for lunch and tea, and even do duty on future occasions. An empty tablet-medicine bottle, an aspirin bottle, or a face cream pot, for example, is excellent for holding salt. Salt screwed up in paper is always difficult to find and to use. A cork to fit the top, with a good hole bored through the centre, will turn the bottle into a “shaker.” But keep the screw top on for travelling; this will usually fit on over a flat oork. If you are taking a kettle which you mean to fill at the nearest cottage, take with it a cork that fits the spout. This may prevent the spilling of precious water on the way back to the camp fire. Wrap your matches in oilskin, or roll them up in a waterproof bag. A sudden shower or rain may ruin them otherwise, and even matches carried in one’s pocket are liable to share the same fate. A loaf wrapped in a cloth provides fresher and more appetising bread than that cut in slices beforehand. Butter should bo put into a glass container of some kind, and never merely wrapped m paper. Paper napkins take up no room, but they do add to the comfort of a picnic especially the no-knives-and-forks Kind. Do include 'a large juicy lemon in the picnic hamper. One is always so much thirstier than one expected to be, and a few drops of lemon-juice added to milkless tea or to hot water makes the ideal ‘ quencher, while a piece of lemon to suck is not without its attraction on such occasions.