Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1911 — LUNCH CHILDREN WILL LIKE [ARTICLE]

LUNCH CHILDREN WILL LIKE

How Midday Meal Should Be Packed to Be Kept Warm and Appetizing. Mothers living too far from the schoolhouse for the children to come home to lunch will find this a solution of the cold lunch problem: Use a box about 15 inches square, inside measurement; pack a three-inch layer of excelsior very solidly in the bottom, then put a tin or agate pail having a very tight cover on this. Pack excelsior solidly around this to the top of the pail. It is very Important to have it solid, as the pail must be taken out A cover must be made to fit the box and this, too, covered for three inches or enough to reach the pail with the excelsior, held In place with cheesecloth or other light fabric tacked securely over it. For the box make a cover of linen or dark canvas. This cover should extend all over the box and hook on side. For the lunch boil in the pail rice, beans, soup, or whatever you may choose that can be boiled. When nearly done, cover closely and put at once in "the box; put the cover oh the box and it is ready and will be done and hot when the children are ready for it, hours later. Oif course, if a tin pail is used, nothing containing tomatoes should be chosen r This will be found of especial convenience to mothers living in the country, where children drive to school.