How To Prepare A Perfect Picnic - Picnic Days (1935)

How to prepare the perfect picnic for the warm days that you spent outside. Learn here how to make your side dishes look and taste amazing. Titles read: ’NOW THE Special Pathe Pictorial Section for the Ladies - Picnic Days’. Pathe Studio, London. On a set dressed to look like a kitchen we see various shots of a woman making food for picnics. First she makes sausage rolls, and we hear some tips from the commentator on how to give them that professional touch. The woman puts the sausage rolls in the oven. When they are cooked she puts them on a wire rack to cool then sets them out on a plate. Next we see a plate full of “tasty little patties“, filled with prawns, olives or anchovies. Then we are shown how to cut bits of cucumber into baskets and fill with cheese and mayonnaise. The girl makes some individual fruit jellies then prepares a green salad. Cut to the woman eating her lovely picnic food in the countryside (the real thing, not a set) with her two young sons. Their wonderful 30s car i
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