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CAMPING
AND
CAMP COOKING
BY
FRANK
A.
BATES
(MatasisoJ AUTHOR OF " GAME BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA," STORIES OF LAKE, FIELD AND FOREST," ETC.
CO.
<*
Copyright, 1909,
By The
portion of this first appeared in a different form in the columns of " The Amateur Sportsman & Sportsman's
Magazine," and thanks are due the publisher of that magazine for permission to republish. The chapter on cleaning fish was written specially for this volume by Mr. Leslie F. Bosworth. It needs no
eulogy.
LIBRARY
of
CONGRESS
Received
Two Copies
APR
19 100s
CLASS
XXc, No,
INTRODUCTION
Vacation time brings to
out-door
life,
many
as a refreshment for
There seems
most of
wildwood, to
live
close to nature
for awhile.
The expense
for those
of
summer
hotels
who wish
know how
to care
work
few weeks and go to the woods or lakeThey have neither the time nor the in-
trapper
who
lives
They want
rest; they
wish
INTRODUCTION
To
this
man, the
clerk, the
mechanic,
to every one
not
who wishes to camp out and does know how to do it and still keep his self-rebook
is
spect, this
addressed.
It is the result
years, during
months
in the
out
many
other
summer
vacations.
Over the
camp
it,"
fire,
how
to
do
and
Here they
are,
his
this little
Frank A.
Bates.
CAMPING OUT
CAMPING
CHAPTER
I
CAMP OUTFITS
A
with
but
camping
all
outfit
That reads a
little
funny,
is
man.
That
is,
you
will think so
swampy
first
In the
truck,
you wonder why you brought so much and in the second place, why you did not
bring
many
other things.
So
it
seems needless
taste of the
trip.
some
extent,
on the individual
No
sane
man would
he
12
CAMPING
in a per-
his
trip.
propose to classify them into two sorts walking trips and permanent camps. But be-
fore I set
down
the
list
of impedimenta I want
to moralize a
little.
I confess that I
life,
and
as
many
of the luxuries as
my
purse or circum-
carry in
my
I have enjoyed nothing but what I could easknapsack, I enjoy one much
and while
better if I have
rough it " too much in the short time they have for their annual trips, and there is no need to do so.
One of the finest woodsmen and grandest of men, " Nessmuk," has written a book which is a
criterion for the
trip; but
man who
if
what
sort of a vacation
this model ? The question was not needed he simply would not try it; for the average city clerk is not so big a fool as he appears to the
average
that.
country
dweller.
So
trail
let
it
go
at
To
again.
party
and
he
is
while there
CAMP OUTFITS
no sense
in sleeping cold at night
is
13
because of a
sleepthis
also
no use for a
trip,
and
is
in
necessities
where the
the
The majority of camping parties occur in warm season when game birds and animals
protected by law, and there
is
are
but most
security
to a feeling of greater
firearm in camp.
all
A
dull
purposes to drive
to while
little
away a
and a
practice will
render
thus available.
fall
In the
but
it is
always
bag.
few
fish will
if
make an
acceptable change
in the diet,
even
The following
the experience of
for the
lists
many
woods and are intended to cover everything that is needed and with the idea that the man who reads them knows but little about the subject and wants to know all about it; and as parties will vary in number of persons composing
it,
14
CAMPING
SUM-
MER OR
For
Light tent
Light axe
FALL.
the Party.
Fry pan
Coffee can
Camera
Tight
can
for
con-
Camp
kettle
densed milk
etc.,
Clothes, bedding,
Rubber poncho
Mosquito net
Belt and knife
Heavy
blanket
Pocket knife
Some
Compass
for provisions
Watch
Tin plate
Fork, large and small
Map
Rod,
reel
spoon
and
line
Tin cup
Pipe and tobacco
2 dozen
flies
Matches
Waterproof matchbox
Insect repeller
Wool outing
Soft hat
shirt
2 suits of underwear
Cake of soap
Comb
Needle,
buttons
Pencil and notebook
thread
and
Shoes
2 handkerchiefs 2 towels
Money
in small
change
CAMP OUTFITS
Y2.
15
pint brandy
and Ja-
ounce Tinct.
barb
Rhu-
maica ginger
tea
1st
7
2
2 y
lbs.
ham, bacon or
dried fruit
After September
pork
lbs.
add
sleeping
bag,
gun and 50
rod and
cartridges,
fishing
salt
but carry
2
1
lbs.
lb.
sugar
coffee
SUMMER OR
For
FALL.
the Party.
To
Baker
the previous
list
add:
Broiler
Lantern
Candles
Iron bean-pot
Stew pan
Camp
wish
stove
you
50
ft.
Y^-'m. rope
and
some twine
Kit of tools
Nails and screws
Bucket
Canoe or boat
i6
CAMPING
For Each Man.
To
the
list
of clothes,
etc.,
add
tin plate,
Rubber boots
Table knife
Another
cup
and spoon
crackers
I lb rice
I
5 lbs. flour
qt.
2
pea beans
onions
3
2 y
lbs.
lb.
meal
baking powder
y
i I
pk. potatoes
I qt.
lbs.
ham, bacon or
2 y
lb. salt
pork
2 cans corned beef
I
oz.
lb.
pepper
butter
lb.
dried fruit
3
I
lbs.
lb.
sugar
coffee
tea
3 cans fruit
3 cans condensed milk
lb.
much can There is a golden mean between bare necessity and absolute convenience, that must be estimated by the character of the trip. When
In regard to the cooking apparatus
be said.
walking, with the lightest
"duffle," a tin plate
possible
amount of
in the
I
may
common tin
Do
not
let
while on the
CAMP OUTFITS
fire.
17
get to the end
Throw
trip.
of the
this is replaced
kettle,
many
sides the
fer this
more plebeian potato and onion. I preform of kettle, even if it be a little cumfor
if
bersome,
away, as
it
sometimes
you
The
that
it
coffee can
whatsoever form
it
be a tin
see that
fire.
pail,
but in
it is
so
made
all
Eschew
making
The
tight can
a necessary thing
when
is
moving about;
best.
to prevent
The
fit,
fry
pan
is
meat,
may
be
fish,
that
is
removed, and
fit
it
with a portable
side.
This detachable
18
handle
CAMPING
may be used to lift any dish from the fire. But because you have a pet fry pan, with autoit.
Use
the broiler on
all
possible occasions.
will stand
The
severe
many
but
it
much
grease.
Use
as
little
of this lubricant as
Fry pan
possible,
and you
quantity needed.
The remainder
of the
kit,
doubt whether
it
was a
camping
to bake
roll in
outfit.
my
my
fish I
in the ashes.
With a
me,
I
who
disagree with
and
it
paratus
worked nicely. In fact, the whole apwas without reproach, and was evi-
CAMP OUTFITS
dently the result of practical experience.
19
If I
could afford
it,
its
transI
it,
when
it
saved time
was no
hole,"
is
very
slit
middle to enable
it
to be
dampness of the
earth.
If this pattern
cannot
may
I
The
ordinary blanket
is
may
desired.
with a light cotton blanket, both double and uncut, for summer use, and a regulation sleeping bag for cooler weather. The latter may be made of oiled duck lined with the summer blankets,
cal-
and cotton
cloth
batting.
The
bag
size of
a pillow case
filled
is
very convenient
fir spills
;
article to
be
with leaves or
this,
however,
is
20
a good pillow
them.
CAMPING
may
be extemporized of a pair of
The
which
is
so easily scattered
by the or-
Now
felt hat,
caps, helmets
and straw
hats,
;
it
Canlot
make a
of
when
These
wet.
light
Wear
flannel
no
vest
is
needed.
easily dried.
Look out
for your
wear good,
and change
This
feet
on a long tramp.
boots.
The remainder
of the ar-
ticles
Never wear
new
CAMP OUTFITS
FOOD.
21
all
is
such a diversity of
taste.
have endeavored
be more
will
or less
party.
game,
berries, etc.,
gathered by the
If there is
But
it
and practice
sufficient to enable
him
to
make a
good cup of coffee, a respectable flap- jack and to fry a pan of fish. With the materials set down
in the
in,
list,
with what
be brought
will, in
a permanent
For
instance,
a party of three
would be provided with 18 pounds of meat for ten days; this would include 3 pounds ham, 4
pounds bacon,
corned beef.
5
pounds
salt
johnny-
fruit
puddings could
CHAPTER
II
CAMP SHELTER
One
fronts the
camper
is
shelter
for
upon
it
depends,
and comfort.
Of
upon
the
for transportation.
is
But
the
consideration
tection
He
forest
in
camp
is
is
But every man who wishes woodsman, and is the man not a
who
sleep
Woods
frequenters
many
dog
But although
I
confess
that
hanker
for
shanty tent
when
CAMP SHELTER
falls
23
ex-
we must always
pect.
camp
is
located
is
where transportation by
team or water
is
available,
when
the temperature
tent,
with a
fly.
Wall tent
It
tent,
gives
and weighs
the
but a
fly.
more.
this,
By
Without
water
will beat
through
and dampen
almost im-
everything inside.
Moreover,
it
is
and the
result
is
that
cloth is
24
CAMPING
it
will start
a leak unless
on
knoll
be.
if possible,
as level as
may
it
Do
stances pitch
in a hollow or gully
in.
where the
the tent.
See that
all is clear before raising and hang evenly and run smoothly.
all
Be
puddle of water,
which
mind.
or, if
it
rains in
the tent
blown down.
SHANTY TENT.
If there are only
especially if weight
tent "
is
is
desirable.
One which
pleted
ft.
high in
CAMP SHELTER
back, 7
ft.
25
long,
if
ft.
wide, with
fly.
No
is
poles
are needed
The
may
be
lifted for
an awn-
Shanty tent
ing,
by suptent
With
tall
this
man, width
enough for two to sleep comfortably and room enough to stow the " duffle," while there is sufficient
head room
at
good
26
CAMPING
I prefer this patall
tern of tent to
is less lost
more
to
known
me.
Now,
tent
is
concerned^ there
is
Dog
choice.
little
tent
When
impedimenta as
to shelter a
man,
will
When
CAMP SHELTER
pole
is
27
thrown across
it
THE LEAN-TO.
If
you desire
to
travel
lighter
still,
or are
work
To
two
28
CAMPING
two
poles into the ground.
five
feet
from the ground for a ridge pole. Cut five poles about eight feet long and lay across this, with
*^
Another Lean-to
how heavy
CAMP SHELTER
will
29
stick
shed
if
Now
some
poles at the
two
sides,
will
front will be as
warm
as a log
down
With
If
this
you
against
it,
having
first
thrown down a
lot
of
is
weather
it
some
is
shelter
more
when a
some central place. A log hut will provide for this, and when timber is plenty can be made with no other tools than a narrow axe. Do not be too extravagant
prolonged stay
to be at
in
made
your idea of
size.
small building
is
more
30
CAMPING
easily kept warm than a large one and a house 8xio feet will shelter four men. Cut straight logs about 8 inches in diameter. Nine logs n feet long for the back; three logs ii feet long, and sixteen logs 4 feet long for the
in
similarly
snugly on top.
Now
proceed to
up
like a cob-house,
notching each
where the
each
side.
When
The
logs of the
front
and
al-
the butts all laid toward the form the pitch of the roof and those
For the
them
CAMPING
of the ends.
bark.
31
birch or hemlock
Lay
across
it
to
logs to
in the gable
ends and
hew down
be
the
with
of
door
may
made
from a cedar
tree
or rawhide hinges.
For fittings build two bunks of poles across narrow end and fill them with fir browse. There will be room enough to stow personal bethe
If a
camp
If
stove
is
used
at the
no stove
is
used,
make
If dry
have a hole
smoke
fire
to
go out.
is
wood
will
warm
much
for the
as i3 desirable.
fire,
Do
not use
cedar
all
wood
many
32
ing can be made.
it
CAMPING
If a
chimney
is
desired build
it,
CHAPTER
III
GENERAL ADVICE
In preparing for camp, one of the most important questions to be settled
is
the choice of
companions.
Nowhere
is
will
human
nature
be
of the
is
on a man's back
it
on an
is
man
bothers
no one but
bler, a
his
own
conscience
what he
trouble
wants to
it
of
how much
man,
may make,
or a
all
selfish, lazy
will disturb
the feelings of
the rest.
And a word of advice here. Constitute one man, the best-posted and most equal-tempered
man
in the party, as captain;
be reaif
assistance,
33
34
CAMPING
him off in the nearest him to the nearest point of embarkation and bid him a long farewell; at all events, remember next year that he is not
necessary, and either cool
lake or quietly escort
eligible for
membership.
is
Make
is
enough, three
better),
many
reasons.
There
is
is
less
avoided, and
up
man in charge of the party may not have all his own fun spoiled in attending to the needs of others. Make one man paymaster and do
not ask
him
make an
Then when
and
if
you
it
the next
More than
that,
life is
any camprid of
home
to get
life,
on important business.
needed
rest
You go
to
camp
fights of a
busy
GENERAL ADVICE
other's pleasure
;
35
man
himself.
Now
your
let
outfits,
and get
it.
ready
hold
occupancy at once.
work will all be over in a short time. Pitch the tent and get your beds ready; make a fireplace and get wood for a fire, so the cook will be able
to tend strictly to his cooking.
If
Joe or
Tom
moment
is
it
is
conveyance, unless he
tain, just insert
so ordered
lar
and
When you
way
til
get your
first
to the
air
by fresh
and
changed conditions,
ills.
It is disgust-
man
to see a
campmate gorge
in
wake everyone
the small
colic.
sick
if
man
in
camp
is
is
the sickness
own
fault
much sympathy.
36
Again,
in the
if
CAMPING
you have any liquor
it
in
camp, put
it
man in I am not
all.
used at
When
The
drinking, hunting
and
fishing
go together,
camp
will
probably be destitute of
iences, for
all
many
is
of the convensettled.
About
that
is
The next
up.
day, get
all
the
camp
luxuries fixed
the
on.
the trunks of
nearest trees to
These may be
may
be forked twigs
Do
salt
of prime necessity.
If
you must
anything,
let
it
not be on the
of
fir
in the world.
row along
the head of
GENERAL ADVICE
the bunking place.
37
the foot,
at least
the bed
is
Next
head
down
using
Continue
this process,
tips
on
it
top.
Make
this
bed as thick
When
fir
some more
on the top.
Lay
on
make a
pole bed.
end.
sticks
They should be
ameter.
be about seven
same
gether
size
the frame
is
wide enough
to
accommo-
On
this
or dry leaves.
When
camp
nothing else
is
is
available,
and
am
is
in
that
to be permanent, I generally
it.
buy a
gen-
There
38
erally a
CAMPING
farmer
the
who can
point
supply
it,
or
it
can be
obtained at
of
disembarkation and
This
may seem
am
benefit of people
who
to
beds,
If
camp
to enjoy themselves.
you wish to " rough it," spread your blanket for one night on the ground beneath the starry
sky.
convenient bed
The next night you will have a bed made. is made of a strip of canand sewn together
When you
put
ground
these crotches.
the
camp
fire.
tell
man how
It
fire."
takes a wise
I
man
or a fool to
make a good
take
it
The cooking
you have
the
fire will
If
flat stones,
up a
fireplace, placing
stones
close
all
play
and with a
It is
hang two
pots.
good idea to have a low place in front wide enough to set on the fry pan, and high enough so
GENERAL ADVICE
that
39
live coals
between them.
the time
it.
Matasiso Stove
If
you are
in a
a fireplace, which
may have
a bottom of turf.
4o
CAMPING
This device will save a good
many back
little
aches.
Make
narrower
than the fry pan, and wider at the front. On this you may boil your potatoes, make your coffee, and fry your fish at the same time. The rocks will hold the heat, and food may be kept warm
while waiting,
if
care
is
on the top
stewed
flat
and
level; in fact, I
have often
fruit, etc.,
the fireplace.
your
in
when
it falls
two for side on top with small stuff, and coals you have a convenient place
large one.
Remember that a small fire is better than a With the latter you cook your face
food,
and there
,
is
more
liability
Hard wood
coals are
is
what you want, and the longer they will remain hot the better for the cook. By no means use hemlock or cedar, as the sparks fly all over
everything,
and setting
fire to
the surround-
Although
want
GENERAL ADVICE
an oven to bake beans,
it
41
fish,
etc.,
and construct
with rocks,
within
till
as follows
Dig a hole
in the
;
ground, preferit
line
if
wood
it
and
keep
it
at least,
is
the rocks
of
live
coals
and ash
in
the bottom.
Put
in
The length of this operation will depend upon so many conditions that it will be impossible to set
a time, but a
the question.
little
fire is
some ways from it, and place a big log, or pile up several smaller ones with stakes to hold them in place, for a
back
the
log.
Build the
fire
in front of
it.
Start
bottom with
fine
it is
well
will
long time.
in the
morning with
not try to
Do
42
CAMPING
a shift with " cold grub."
make
That
is
the
warm
meal.
wood, which
will
be stored in the
but
precaution, hunt
you have used it up or have neglected this up a pine log or a dead pine tree, and chop off the outside; you will find plenty of dry wood inside. Rake open the ashes
in the
camp
fir
fire,
where you
with pine,
fire
and you
tent dry,
will soon
to
keep the
It will
fire if
cook by.
Hard wood
do the
trick.
Keep
It is
much
as possible.
much
There are numerous preparations which can be purchased ready made. The most of them answer the purpose very
to
well.
But
if
you wish
make
it
GENERAL ADVICE
nished
43
me by
is
tomologist,
INSECT REPELLENT
2 oz.
1
Camphor
Cedar
oz. Oil of
The
knew,
Nessmuk," one of
made
as follows:
PUNKEY
Pine Tar
Castor Oil
DOPE.
3 oz.
2
.
.
oz.
oz.
Oil Pennyroyal
Simmer
well
oil
together;
when
of pennyroyal, and
set to cool.
too
it
warm when the pennyroyal is added, because may evaporate, and it is the real life of the
Bottle and cork
it
mixture.
tight.
Use
copi-
It is
mosquitoes or horse
Please
CHAPTER
IV
CLEANING FISH
The remarks
ably
to care for
and dress
own
satisfaction,
;
and
but
what
One
ered
is,
What means
shall
we employ
to insure
our
at
fish
camp or
is
to be
cleaned.
The
sun
is
angler
who
fishes
stream can, of
if
the
damp moss
will prevent
44
CLEANING FISH
the fish
45
is
portance.
But
marks are of
perience that
well built in
salient value.
if
has been
my
ex-
it, it is
Fish-bag
made
fish
and generally
sun.
alive for
is
a long time,
This
of the
detri-
46
CAMPING
fish,
oftentimes softening
them so that dressing them in a presentable or skillful manner is out of the question. The result of this is generally
more bones
in the frying
pan than
fish.
We
fish,
have
now
after
exhibited by one
who
render
Fish-knife
man who
first
?
"
Who
has a knife
out,
my mind
is
worth
which we
use
After trying
my own
shown
in the cut.
CLEANING FISH
This
47
may be made
its
by breaking
back and
a hardwood strip
entire handle
The advantage
is
being at an angle
in its tendency to
flesh, instead
make
down
fin,
removed
entirely, leaving
forefinger.
gill
covers enter-
Make
thumb and knife blade and pulling quickly upward toward the head.
the lower end between the
nape between
and
pull
48
the side
CAMPING
down
nearly to the anal fin; repeat this
;
on the other
the skin
side
on the under
may be removed at same time, and tear quickly down to the tail, the anal fin nearly always coming off with the skin pull off the head and the entrails will come
the
;
with
it,
and
less
time than
it
takes to
tell it.
first scale
them thor-
movements from the tail toward the head, remove all the scales thoroughly. The dorsal fin is best removed as in
quick, short, scraping
Next, with
fish in
left
make a downward
fins to
cut from
di-
a point just
back of the
down one
fish over,
side of anal
fin,
make a
posite side
fin entire;
turn the
and
entrails will
CLEANING FISH
slime
entirely
49
fish nice
the disagree-
muddy
flavor so
common
in this fish.
Fins
Of
fish,
all fish
may
be called on to
dress, the
as
it is
him the most trouble. The best and quickest way is to remove fins by cutting down each side and tearing out cut the entire length of the belly to a point a little beyond the vent; then sever the head from the body from the under side, without cutting the skin grasp the body with the
;
;
head
in the
right
and a quick
and
entrails entire, if
little
care
is
taken in
Of
to
gills
all
is
the easiest
no knife being needed. Remove the thumb and forefinger, wash thoroughly, and the fish is ready for the
dress,
and
pan.
In closing, a
fish that
word
to the
camper.
Never use
than
have
lain in the
soften.
50
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Take
all
such
fish,
chop
entrails
and
fish-
out to the
If this
spot, especially if
near
a
some sunken
you
This
is
called
CHAPTER V
WHAT
TO DO IF LOST IN THE WOODS
at a distance of
ization,
i.
Every man who goes camping in the woods, more than five miles from civiland does what nearly every
man
does do,
is liable
e.,
" take a
to miss his
is.
way and
he
is
not
lost,
the
camp
and
this
and varied.
" You just can't tell what you would do." You may theorize all you choose beforehand, but when
the time comes
is
bewildered, you
that your
com-
wrong.
to find that
know where
I
way
is.
52
CAMPING
May
ist to
De-
cember
ist.
know
much
getting lost
and
finding myself
lost.
again
in fact, I
I
When
am
following a rare or
unknown
bird I
endeavor to keep
my
eye on
it
it,
irrespective of
may
my
quiet path I
where
maxim:
tled
get rat-
and
your head."
for instruction in the woods, to re-
I often
looked to
me
member
lies."
and
to
add
to
it it
local attrac-
have found
There
it
would not
enough
were
If
it
WHAT TO DO
wandering
in circles in
lost.
IF
LOST
lies
53
which
the greatest
danger of being
Now
Your
if
first
duty
is
map
of the locality,
may have
hills,
the
camp.
If
you cannot do
find that
this
do not go.
When
you
are,
you
quarter, endeavor to
and
some
it is
river,
If
not too
in
which
direction
you ought
go,
set
your compass,
If the
mark
set
in that course,
and go
to
it.
woods
up a peeled
stick or blaze
a tree once in a
54
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trail.
When you
you are certain o favour course, lay it out again, always by compass, and you will come out some-
where
If
at a place that
you
ing to some
it is
known
point.
some boughs
to
lie
upon and
through the
to,
and make
have some
one night,
eat,
If
to
You
even
not so nice.
any source.
Next morning you may follow the shown in the prehear someone say, suppose you
etc.
if
ceding paragraphs.
Methinks
that
reason
you are a
If
rational being
will
these things
you
and
go
out.
WHAT TO DO
IF
LOST
55
woods,
it
is
the custom
among
which
call."
We
member knows
to be.
just
In case any
wounded
rifle
how
to get back to
succession.
If not
one
to
Usually he
heard before
If
is
much
and
is
answered.
trailed
by the
light of birch
is
Seldom
man
night.
CAMP COOKING
The following receipts for cooking are the reof many years' actual experience, and have all been tried in actual camp-life. They are all
sult
may
be prepared by
The
materials
may
at the stores,
in the
when
farmers
neighborhood.
It is
will
be
members
of
One would
would
nities
it
when
Hence a
selection
fit all
is
pre-
sented,
tions.
condi-
57
"
We
can
live
without Love
the
what
live
is
passion
but
pining ?
"But where
is
man who
can
without dining?"
by the way."
"As we
journey through
life, let
us
LIVE
58
CHAPTER VI
CAMP COOKING
There is a favorite saying in camp, that " the Lord sends grub, but the devil sends cooks." This expression is old and homely, but it is apt, and many times, when it is the turn of the greenest man in camp to get dinner, we find reason to consider it true. We have seen an old woodsman toss together a few ingredients and turn out a meal that would cause our stomachs to cry, " Encore, encore/' and we have most of us experienced the sad results from guides who pretended to be finished cooks and had the whole party homesick before they had been in camp three days. The best supplied camp cuisine in the world would not keep off the " blue horrors "
when
it,
in the
Of
to do
learn.
course, everyone
must
first
learn the
fail
how
to ever
The
water without
59
60
burning
perience,
it.
CAMPING
I well
I
remember
I
my own
first
ex-
and
remember,
is,
the
man
most
In
This
is,
in
the
first place, it
takes
some experience
to
so,
do it. and
party
can
if
camp
as they can at
it.
home,
also a
they wish
And
if
they
Baked Bread:
Put
i
in the
mixing dish
(I
fuls of baking powder, and a teaspoonful of salt, and mix together; then work in a little butter with the hand or mixing spoon, add cold water, stirring all the time, till you have a stiff dough
without lumps.
Turn
it
dough
in the dish,
cover
it
with a tin
on the coals
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in the oven,
61
little
experience
how
long to bake
will
(N. B.
powder
in
camp, that
it it
use
home, because
have found
necessary to
is,
Why
do not
know.)
Spider-cake:
Mix
pint
wheat
flour,
tea-
Add
As soon
it
breaking, loosen
it
in the
knife,
and shake
ing.
it
occasionally to keep
from scorchit
When
baked on one
side.
side,
is
turn
over and
(This
into
Flapjacks or Batter-cakes:
Mix
quart of
62
flour, i
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teaspoonful of
salt,
4 of baking powder,
and 4 of sugar or a
to
little
molasses.
Add
water
it
make a
thin batter.
If
may-
also good.
Grease the
to
in
enough batter
as the cake
make a
thin layer.
As soon
over.
browns on the
it
under
it
and turn
When
baked, take
it
off
will
keep
warm
The
best results
grease as possible.
in
This receipt
may
be varied
many
ways.
eggs
before
cooking,
mensely.
If whortleberries or dangleberries or
The
boys will
like
them.
My
CAMP COOKING
me
be about the right
or sugar,
size.
63
may be used
Boiled Rice:
Wash
salt.
clean
pound of
rice,
and put
off
in
teaspoonfuls of
Take
and
set aside
to steam.
Corn-meal Mush:
water,
salted
to
Have
Sift
a dish of boiling
in
taste.
the
cornmeal
is
it
thick enough.
This
to do
may seem
it
very
trivial,
it
but
takes patience
properly or
Set
it
will
be
full of
lumps of
dry meal.
on one
and steam
is
your patience
not
cold
dish
When
properly
done, and
it
is
good dish
about
This
slices in
beaten egg,
64
before frying.
erly
CAMPING
If the
made
at first }
Milk Toast:
If
stale
bread in
camp
(as
when do you
on the visit to town), make it up for milk toast. Put on the stew pan, with a cup of milk. Put in a pinch of salt, a generous lump of butter, and allow it to come to a boil. In the meanwhile toast your bread to a nice brown, and
a bakeshop
when of
it
into the
boiling milk.
Cereals:
their
Of
is
these
various
all
preparations,
name
legion,
and nearly
of
them have
on the package.
This
not,
Why
it is
camp
as
flours in
many
various names.
As
handy
CAMP COOKING
cessity
65
package
is
of
breaking
out
large
omission
common
to
they are
Fils-d'une-chienne:
Fry
SOUPS.
out the
fat
from
till
some
salt
pork.
it
is soft.
Drop
it
in cold
Cook
until the
meat
when
from 3 to 4 hours, during which time there must be enough water to cover
stirred; this will take
the meat.
Now
sliced po-
and cook
salt
Season with
and
pepper to
u
taste.
Camp Stew:
is
needed, and
is
must be added
at the
same time
is
the meat
put on.
When
the meat
done,
add the potatoes as before, and a can of tomatoes. Flavor with salt, pepper and curry powder.
Just
before
serving,
take
some
wheat
66
flour
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and mix with water
;
to
it
make
it
about the
consistency of cream
beat
;
together thoroughly
boiling,
and turn
liquid.
in the flour,
which
This dish
all
may
of any or
may
hap-
should be peeled
and cut
eter.
diamlittle
So far as the meat component goes, almost any flesh is suitable. The leftovers from the broiled steaks or chops
longer than the potatoes.
chickens or fowls, ducks, grouse, shore birds or
spit;
the
If fresh
meat
is
Although
It
rels are
word of caution just here may not be out of place. When making venison stew, look out that the meat has been well bled and hung for
forty-eight
hours,
if
possible.
Otherwise you
CAMP COOKING
will think
67
som
and
salts.
When
night.
is
water over
obnoxious to many.
Turtle Soup:
in water, in
salt,
for
away
add a
the water.
fresh cold
sliced potatoes,
season with
savory,
Camp
This
it
is
for the
common
"
mud
turtle,"
and be
it is
known
that an unreasonable
Properly
prepared,
Skunk Stew:
sert this here,
this animal.
Properly
is
really
a delicacy.
kill
When you
if
him,
you can,
68
CAMPING
If the
before he explodes.
the carcass over a
odor
is
strong,
hang
smudge of hemlock
twigs, be-
Skin and
glands, which
in cold
must be carefully removed. Put fire, and boil for an hour, or as long as any fat will rise to the top. Skim off this fat and carefully preserve it in a
water over a slow
time
when
very penetrating.
boil the
Throw away
the water,
and
meat with a sliced onion in fresh water, till the meat will slip off the bones. Add sliced potatoes and season with salt, pepper, and
a very
little
Many
man
after
has
Lob-scouse:
of salt
is
till
the excess
fill
out of
Drain
;
off the
water and
up with fresh water put any vegetables that you happen to have, except the potatoes, and boil till the meat will come to pieces about half an hour
;
before
it
is
done, add
some
sliced potatoes
and
it
hard bread.
This
is
CAMP COOKING
affords a variety
69
is
when
diet.
the stomach
cloyed
with a hard-times
Fish Chowder:
in the
Fry
out two
slices of
pork
large
bottom of the
kettle,
Add 6
and cook
Have about
pounds of
should
in
now be put in and cooked till it will break pieces. Then add 1 quart of milk and season
When
it
comes
Set
till
and
thin,
serve.
Some
is
im-
sliced
in.
Cover
;
the
slices
then
fish,
on the
fish
soaked in
water or milk.
pork,
till
Repeat the
a sufficient quantity
obtained.
Each
and pepper.
70
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in
Put
mass
to moisten the
whole
well,
When
it
appears
Webster Chowder: The famous Daniel Webster lived in the section where my ancestors
passed their
lives,
and
from the contiguous waters. Many of them were professional fishermen and their wives were famous cooks in the direction of these products.
a noted receipt,
it
be-
we need no
excuse for
its
insertion here.
"
Cod of 10 or 12 pounds
on the
salt
ty 2
pounds each,
clear, fat
iy 2
pounds
slices; slice
twelve pota-
toes.
Take the
first,
largest pot
pork
in
the
dripping;
add
to
three
pints
of
fill
CAMP COOKING
enough
to cover the ingredients; put
let
it
71
over a
good
utes
;
fire,
the
chowder
boil twenty-five
min-
when
this is
and
let
The chowder
if
is
then
first
rate
An
onion
is
of the farmers to
Once or twice each summer, it was the custom make up a party and go to some beach for a picnic. A chowder was considered
a necessary adjunct of the festivities, and
I still
toothsome dish.
then and
Perhaps
it
now.
Clam Chowder:
those
For
in
who have
may
be put on the
fire
T. A.
When
72
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Make
;
the chowder as by
the
first receipt
is
given, using as
much
of the clam
water as
necessary
Do
it is
nearly done, or
Bean Soup: Wash 2 quarts of beans, and them to soak over night or parboil them till the skins begin to peel off. Scrape clean one pound of salt pork and cut into thin
either put
slices.
if
necessary, then
in the
mash
put
Stir
occasionally so
salt
will
not burn.
Season
with
to
and pepper to taste. It is a fussy job and not burn it, and at the same time have it good; but it is worth the while.
make
this
Pea Soup:
the
Take
ham
There
is
no objection
will slip out
Put over
bone
peas
split
and cook
until the
of the meat.
soft.
and cook
till
of bread,
CAMP COOKING
butter.
will
73
it
When
soft,
Half a cup of oysters you please), with a very little water; simmer over the fire till the beards
Oyster
Stew:
if
(shucked,
wrinkle.
ter, salt
Turn
in a pint
;
and pepper
let it
come
to a boil, stir in
eat.
little
thickening, and
it is
ready to
Don't
game
country,
we seldom
be brought
may
camp on
But
ject as if there
who may be
thus
advantageously placed.
rels, rabbits,
how-
ever,
will
be at times available.
art
is
And
as the
to live, so far as
will
due attention
be
those products.
No
74
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Nevertheless,
it
may be
considered that
all
With
fowl, however,
it
is
different.
All dark
all
white
pure impu-
not
insult.
It is
none of
my
business
man wants
to
make
a salmi of his
woodcock
supper.
etc.
Broiled Steaks:
Camp
is
when wood
get
it
it
is
cooked.
coals, if possible.
smoke.
Put the
over the
hissing hot.
Then put on
one side
fire
hold
it
fire till
seared; turn
that,
and sear
after
CAMP COOKING
which
cooked
it
75
till
Lay on a warm
that
plate,
put on a
and
This
however,
my
preference
pan
well
no
may
be
butter must
be used,
if
there
is
But by
all
means, use as
little
the pan hot, to start with, so as to quickly sear the surface and keep in the juices.
In cooking
if
there
is
any
fat left,
from pork and bacon, turn it into a clean can (I use the empty condensed milk cans), and save it to fry fish.
Fried Salt Pork:
it
pan;
scrape off
all bits
well done.
will
Do
it
burn the
off grease
Drain
?6
CAMPING
dry.
Slice thin
and toast on
Or
hold the
over the
fire,
Look out
that the
Fried Bacon:
pan.
Slice thin
Watch
it
carefully that
much, or
will be
it is
piece as soon as
Some
Do
it
cooking;
it
renders
Ham
pork.
into
and Eggs:
Fry
ham
the
same
as
When
The
gains suf-
the albumen
ject of
from becoming
The
ob-
CAMP COOKING
ping into the pan,
is
77
others.
Fried Sausages:
Cut the
It is
is
cook
well cooked.
Beef:
Put
it
the
meat
into
boiling
till
water, so that
will
Use a teaspoonful of salt for every 5 pounds of meat, added when it is nearly cooked. This method will be proper for
erally be sufficient.
corned beef,
water.
is
also,
but omit
salt
away
to about
makes an
excellent
gravy.
If
no
one
gravy
side
till
the hardened
fat
if
removed and
desired, this
Afterward,
may be used
ble stew.
78
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Hash:
left
Take
in
cold,
boiled potatoes,
two
parts.
Chop
and
fat.
warm up
Have
pork
fat
in the fry
pan with a
pork
If desired this
may
in
be varied in several
ways.
little
Put
sliced
in
and drop
an onion,
very
fine.
Stir rapidly, so
it
Have
brown
in the fat,
from which the pieces of onion have been removed. Or, have the pan half filled with clean,
sweet grease (lard, or beef drippings), slightly
salted.
into the
hash and
mix thoroughly;
into
croquettes or balls,
The
fat
Barbecued
Meat:
Ribs
of
mutton,
thin
any
Lay
coals, so as to
and cook
CAMP. COOKING
Barbecue Dressing:
79
of vinegar,
One
pint
two
tableit
completely amalgamated.
till
is
of clean
and
on the
fire.
The
it
preparation of this
pays.
Fried
Egg
on Hash:
Make
your hash of
meat and potato; fry out the fat from a few slices of pork; roll your hash, wet with enough
water to make
large
it
service,
will
keep
warm
grease
on to the hash
When
is
served,
done, break
game.
This word,
like
tude of
sins.
80
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wood and
field
but I
am
not going to do
it,
Second,
it is
none of
is
my
business any-
way.
My
business now,
will
to
tell
come out of
want
In the
the
With
this digression, I
to start in with a
first place,
always
flesh of
game
as soon as killed.
is
The
not
fit
to eat.
Always let the animal heat get out of the body before you cook it. The fact that it will not rest well on your stomach is proof positive that it is not healthful. So unless you are on the verge
of starvation, heed these words.
Fish
is
the
is
Fried
legged
Squirrel:
The
game
camper
latter,
will get,
The
however,
the late
summer, and
are not
most
We, however,
now
the cooking.
and water,
to
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take out the strong flavor.
81
off the water,
Drain
and
Those who
gamey
flavor,
in salt
broil
and
dry.
and water for an hour, wipe dry, over the coals with a slice of pork fat
meat
to baste
it
so
it
will not be
Fried Rabbit:
salt
Dress four
better
if
rabbits
parboil in
and water
Drain
It is
till
meat.
butter.
off the
much
frying,
although not at
all
strictly
Woodchucks, porcupines and skunks are not game, but they are fully as edible as
if
Dress
is
and put a
roasts.
slice
end of the
the bird as
spit,
it
down over
Have
a large quantity of
82
CAMPING
an inclined position, so
Turn
frequently,
to avoid
cook on
all
sides
and also
burning.
The
Any
pipers
may
Rabbit Curry:
till
Dress
come
two
rabbits
and
boil
Take the
it
was
will
(Do make
salt
much
of this liquor;
Add two
it,
slices
powder,
and pepper.
If
you have
put in
for
Cook slowly
twenty minutes.
rice
;
Have
with a little flour rubbed up in cold water; turn over the meat in the dish. Serve.
" in-
mix
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with a
little salt 4
83
little
Put
this
pork and
pail of
sew the skin together tightly. water in which stir clay until
Have a
it
is
of the con-
Now
take the bird by the feet and dip into the water.
The
ers.
Repeat
till
the bird
a mass of clay.
Lay
heat of the
fire.
burned to a
brick.
ball
the clay is almost Bake Rake the bird out of the fire,
it till
stick,
it
cracks open.
The
This
feathers
and skin
will
all
come
clean as possible.
the perfect
cooking game.
Any
fowl or animal
If
way of may be
Partridge Fricassee:
joints
into
and
roll
them
in flour
your pieces of
bird.
Cook
utes, then
84
cook slowly
till
CAMPING
the
meat
is
tender.
in a dish; turn in
with a a
little
little
salt it
and
pour
There
ing
is
such a difference in
fish
taken from
may
Fish
muddy
same
species taken
from the
in salt
cold,
clear streams
and ponds.
will
Soaking
and
but
all
not
make them
waters.
net,
Again,
or a well in
you have not a fish car or the boat, by which means they
till
al-
ways
kill
your catch
of the sun.
will be
CAMP COOKING
this, I will
85
Fried Perch:
with hot
fat.
Have
camp,
Roll
the
fish,
up
Drop
hot.
in the fat
them
evenly
cooked.
all
Serve
fish
This
rule
kinds of
pound
sides
in weight.
them
in
body, or
slice the
meat of the
Boiled Fish:
Do
fish.
in weight.
Put
in
and drop
it
your
pieces.
Cook
until
easily
cleave
away from
cook
in half
the bones.
three-pound
fish will
an hour or
less,
and about
five
min-
86
about right.
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But there
is
a difference in species.
some
two
ta-
salt.
Mix
up
in a
in
cold water
is
till
all
broken, and
will
water
If
is
A
an
vinegar
is
improvement,
especially
when
Baked Fish:
stuffing
little
Take
wash
it
well; prepare
composed of cracker or bread crumbs, a salt and pepper, a small lump of butter,
little
with a very
boiling water; if
drop one
in
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fing in the cavity
87
whence the
entrails
were
re-
tightly,
in
it
all
on
this,
put on another
all,
and
Bake
for an hour.
If
you
few
slices of
covering, will
improve the
Small
fish
may
will
when
on
I
long
tramp,
in
light
marching order,
Sharpen a small straight Skewered Fish: stick and take off the bark. Thrust this through small fish and slices of bacon alternately, and
hold over the hot coals.
They
will
cook in a
few minutes.
Look out
game.
heads
Broiled
split
Fish:
Take
off
the
and
down
88
stomach
intact.
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Lay on
the broiler with strips
hot coals.
means injured
Planked Fish:
that
This
is
the quintessence of
camp cookery, and is so easy that it is a wonder more people do not use the method. Have a hard wood plank, large enough to hold the fish, laid out flat. And do not throw away the
plank after using;
the fish
it
Split
it
down
Tack
Skewer on
fire.
strips
Be
sure
good
on the head
fish.
so the
until
Cook
you can
Take off the plank, and dress with salt, pepper and butter, and do not be afraid to put on enough butter. Lay on all you think the state of the supply will allow, and then shut your eyes and put on another
piece.
Serve hot.
Baked
Fish,
Lumberman
it
Style:
Take
in soft clay
from
f
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the
river
89 and
gills.
bank,
against
a
the
scales
When
ered.
the clay
is set
till
little, roll
a blanket of clay,
the body
is
completely cov-
Dry
is
in
Rake
fire
and crack
taken out
ball,
The
fish
will split in
;
two
which can be
and the
scales are
Dust on a
little salt,
and you
have a meal
fit
for
a hungry
bacon
in
hunter.
(Little
Cut
Pigs in
slices.
little
fat
very thin
Lay on each
salt
on a
bacon, securing
toothpick.
in
Heat the
the " pigs " and cook about four minutes. cut as thin as possible and
" pigs " cooked only
enough
to
make
it
the
bacon palatable.
all,
Some never
gives
the oysters.
Fried Clams:
Shuck
9o
ing the large ones.
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Roll them in cracker crumbs
fat.
Fish Balls:
fry at dinner
Take the
fish left
all
the bones.
Chop
in the proportion of
to taste; break in
Form
deep
into
two of potato, season with salt an egg and mix thoroughly. balls or flat croquettes, and fry in
fat.
Build an oven of rocks, on Baked Clams: bottom and sides, top left open. Build a hot fire and keep it burning till there is a heap of hot coals and ashes, and the rocks are heated through. Rake out all the bits of unburned wood which would burn and smoke the bake. Throw on a
layer of rock-weed to cover the ashes; lay the
clams on
relish,
this,
Bake
till
the clams
When
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is
91
do not run away with the idea that any old way
right to cook them.
it
plain boiled
egg may
be delicious or
may
be a clammy mass.
Of
A
if
soft-boiled
egg should
be cooked 3 minutes,
ter.
If
in cold
them come
will
cook 20 minutes.
You
be surprised
will
be.
how Some
them
drop
and
let
6 minutes.
Fried Eggs:
Grease
Have
if
for
cooking flapjacks.
sure that they are fresh; turn into the fry pan,
is
contill
in
Cook
turned over,
hard.
is
Eggs
fried
in
too
much
if
will
be
care be
directions
if
followed, they
may
If
be as easily digested as
soft-boiled.
92
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slices
of bread,
and pepper.
fit
Have
the size of
the sandwich to
ter than to
This
is
bet-
make
whole
slice
of bread.
Break the eggs in a dish, Scrambled Eggs: and beat the yolks and whites well together.
Grease the bottom of the fry pan with butter,
stir till
done.
Look out
Season
with
salt
and pepper,
after serving.
Omelette:
dish: beat
into the
mixing
and
them
salt
it
smooth;
all
together.
Have
is
cook
till
the bottom
slip
well
will not
run;
a thin knife
Cook
as
much
it
as' desired,
turning occa-
sionally, so that
let it
will
be evenly cooked.
if
it
Don't
shows signs of
cooked, drop
burning before
is
sufficiently
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a
little
93
where the
a moment.
danger
and hold
Ham
Omelette:
Mince
little
some
boiled
ham,
may be
varied in
many
Minced beef, lamb, cheese, or even fish salt cod and smoked halbut, gives the omea distinctive
flavor.
Omelette
Break
little
eight
pepper,
and two large tablespoonfuls of cream; beat them well together. Put two ounces of butter
in the fry pan, set over the fire,
and as soon as
will not stick,
it
egg
till
pour
in
begins to set
hold
it
moment
a crust forms
on the bottom; turn one-half over the other, and serve. It must not be done too much.
Fricasseed Eggs:
Boil
94
hard and
onion, a
slice
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them.
Chop very
fine
a small
parsley or celery-leaves, and two mushrooms; put a generous lump of butter in the fry pan, season with salt and pepper; when the butter is melted, lay in the vegetables and heat thoroughly, but do not brown;
little
or three
add a
gill
come
to a
boil,
and
serve.
VEGETABLES.
All vegetables should be carefully looked over
and washed
in cold water.
If to
if
be boiled, drop
them
in boiling water,
and
kettle gets
up with
water as
Keep
off the
the kettle
covered,
if
and drain
soon as
cooked.
Some very
strong flavored
two wacooked,
That
is,
partly
The
boil
question
is
often asked,
how long
will be
we
them ?
fast rule.
variable.
Small
cook
five
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large ones.
It is
95
Potatoes, boiled
20
to
40 minutes
10 to 15 minutes
15 to 30 minutes
60
60 to 90 minutes to 90 minutes
45 to 60 minutes take, or you may
Onions
Pay
water.
what you
Boiled Potatoes:
Wash
till
thoroughly in cold
water
cut out
all
Drop them
easily stick a
in hot water
and
you can
all
Drain
Select
off the
water and
potatoes for a
same
size,
96
lost.
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If the potatoes are very old, peel off the
skins,
put a handful of
;
salt in the
water in which
Mashed Potatoes: After boiling, peel and mash thoroughly with a stick or the bottom of a
Stir in salt, pepper, butter and enough milk to make the consistency that of
clean bottle.
dough.
Baked Potatoes:
til
Cut
bury in
fingers.
Peel
slice.
the skins
from
Have
stir
the bottom
Drop
in the slices
and
frequently to
prevent burning.
When
Stewed Potatoes:
into small pieces.
Cut
Put
in the
enough milk
to cover them.
Season with
pepper and butter, and stew gently, stirring occasionally, until the
milk
is
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Lyonnaise Potatoes:
97
One
and pepper
salt
to taste.
with the
butter,
break them;
when
two minutes
longer.
Serve at once.
Potato Salad:
chopped
fine;
mash
the yolks
and add to
them one teaspoon each of ground mustard and sugar, one tablespoon of melted butter, some salt and pepper. Rub all together well and put in
the potatoes, with about four tablespoonfuls of
salad dressing.
tles,
and
will
much
trouble in making.)
If
Add
get
is
you can
Lettuce,
will
some
mix
all
together.
kale, parsley or
do
may be
omitted altogether, in which case, be more sparing of the vinegar in the dressing.
98
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The
it
better preserved
if
is
down
the inner
husk and
the corn.
tie
the ends.
it
in the in
is
water as soon as
comes to a
let it
and drop
Do
this
not
necessary to
to
make
it
soft.
cook
it
Succotash
(so
called):
The proportion
Put
and
tender.
Take out
it
boils up.
fire
and season to
This
is
where
it
was
first
settlers.
and few
are
all
detail.
They
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good enough.
Suffice
salt beef,
it
99
body
is
composed of
in
ever
many cases the remnants of the dinner, whatit may have been, in the line of meat, saved
Here
is
one method
me by one
the Cape.
Boil
a piece of salt
till
fill up with fresh, some chicken, a piece of pork about a quarter as big as the beef, and boil till it all comes to pieces. Scrape off the corn from the cobs and put in with about half as many beans, and cook till the beans are ten-
Drain
off the
water and
cold water.
Put
in
der.
Season to
taste.
is
Of
Boiled Beets:
Wash
and thus
in
lose
boiling
till
some of the sweetness. Put them water, enough to cover them, and
Drain
off the
leave
water
in cold water,
off.
when
the skin
may
from
rubbed
If there are
any
left
ioo
the meal, slice
CAMPING
them
into a shallow
dish and
This
is
a splendid
am
requested to men-
homely
dish.
No
list
ble plants.
will
Their
would be
legion, but
mention a few:
kale,
Any
of the
till
is
an excellent
it is
Of
course,
un-
You might
as well try to
if
you
them
formed
in these plants.
Stewed Tomatoes:
off.
come
Cut up
in the
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hard and unripe
parts.
101
until they
Stew gently
come
and a
sugar
if
desired.
Baked Beans:
and
is
This
New
its
England dish
perfection.
all
is
Pick
poor ones.
off the
Drain
wait
and throw
it
far
away from
little salt
and some
complete the
list.
pot,
and
set in the
just before
it,
you go
Rake
hot,
and go to bed.
find
them
nicely
every Yankee.
If
you do not relish it, so much and so much the better for
more
for
them.
102
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Macaroni:
into
Break
the
sticks
of macaroni
tender.
Stew
you can mash them up with the spoon and pick out the skin and the hard lumps put in a lump of butter, a little salt
;
flour
and water,
Pour
this
and
serve.
MUSHROOMS. At
the earnest request of a friend, but with
at the possible results,
do
I
is
There
around them.
that
mycology, generally
is
feels
mushrooms
magazine.
much
like living
over a powder
is
no more dan-
ger than
But if you are not positive that you can identify each specimen as you gather it,
from the
lakes.
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let it
103
go,
to those that
you
My
experience in this
am
obliged to
copy,
others.
in
most
There
scriptions
from the experience of no space here to go into deof species, but the literature on the
cases,
is
subject
is
no need
to
do
so.
Broiled Russula:
Thoroughly
over a hot
fire, gills
upward and
little salt
and
cies
This speA. ostreatus: grows out of the sides of trees and stumps. Broil the young and tender specimens the same
Vegetable Oyster
may
be fried in
As a stew
a
in the
delicious.
species
of the last
same manner,
fish.
decidedly that of
104
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with a
Shaggy-mane Coprinus: Put in a stew pan little milk, add a piece of butter, a little pepper and salt. Or, put about two ounces of butter in the stew pan with a teaspoonful of salt and a little pepper, with a slight pinch of powdered mace or nutmeg. Put in a pint of mushrooms and stew for a few minutes; then add a little milk and
stew for about twenty minutes, or
tender.
till
they are
flour
little
rubbed up
Stewed Chantarelle:
chicken, veal or
till
in
Vegetable Beefsteak:
Slice
and
too
Do
with
much condiment.
Clavaria:
Fried
very
that
This
delicious
fungus
is
common and so free from insect enemies, pounds of it may be gathered in almost any
Simply fried in the pan with butter or
it
woods.
oil,
has furnished an
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addition to
105
many
its
who
understood
value.
Puff Balls:
fry in butter
Pick
out the
specimens with
and serve on
toast.
good
as eggs.
Warning:
insects.
Be
sure
that
DESSERTS.
Rice Pudding:
Boiled
;
rice,
about a quart;
water to keep
if
it
two eggs,
together and
stir-
Good,
Corn-starch Pudding:
Heat
three pints of
106
CAMPING
it
that
it
rubbed up
a
in a little cold
little salt,
beat
boiling stir
and when the milk is the mixture into it. It will immediit
together,
cool.
must be taken from the turned out into a dish, and set one side to Serve with sugar and milk.
it
when
Tapioca Pudding:
ca "
;
Buy
If
it
saves time.
it
kind, soak
in
milk
till it
up
soft.
Stir into
a quart of the jelly, or the advertised allowance of the " minute " brand with enough milk to
make
taste,
the quantity,
two
eggs, a
little salt,
spice to
and
set
over the
fire till it
comes
to a boil.
fire,
and
Apple Slump:
sliced
Fill
;
on a
little spice,
into
a pint of
flour,
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till it
107
makes a
stiff
dough.
Lay
this
dough over
till
the top of the apples, cover and steam crust rises and
the
you can thrust a sliver into the Set off crust without the dough sticking to it. keep covered till needed. Serve the fire and with pudding sauce or with milk and sugar.
}
Pudding Sauce: One pint of water in the stew pan mix three tablespoonfuls of flour in a little cold water and rub it to a smooth paste: when the water boils, put in a small lump of butter, a cup of sugar, a little spice, and when the
;
sugar
is
If the
water
is
when
jelly.
the flour
is
put
in, it will
thicken up into a
in a
is
little
stir
lemon juice or
If this flavor
This sauce
If
may
be
made
is
of milk
if
it
you have
it.
condensed milk
used, dilute
with water,
Mix a quart of
flour,
tea-
dough.
and
tie
up, leaving
room
for the
pudding to
swell.
Place
io8
in boiling water
boil
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enough to cover the bag, and for two hours. Serve with syrup or pudding
sauce.
Plum Pudding:
fourths of a
One
pound of
salt
raisins, three-fourths of
a pound of fat
small pieces,
tle
it
molasses.
well.
Mix in just sufficient water to wet Some think it is improved by the addipowder
stirred
Boil in a bag, as in
The pudif
it
is
is
kettle.
Do
not
let
it
mixed with
as
little
water as possible.
mush
in the pot.
Cut
figs
in pieces,
cover
let it
come
to a boil over a
fuls of sugar.
salt
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and
stir it into
it
109
As
saw and
soon as
thickens,
I
I
this receipt,
but
am
my
thanks right
good.
DRINKS.
Coffee: The
finest
is
good coffee, but there is more coffee making than would drown all the
Coffee boiled
is
spoiled in
fraternity.
coffee
spoiled.
The
simplest
method
finely
is
one tablespoonful of
ground coffee for each person to be served, and one more for the pot. When the water is
boiling hard, turn in a cupful for each person
and and
Cover
tight
where
it
will
teen minutes.
The grounds
If
own
accord.
wanted
in a hurry, let
stir
set a
stick.
with a clean
expense of aroma.
Black Coffee
lator or
(Cafe
noir)
Have
a perco-
ground coffee
Have
the
no
colator.
CAMPING
it
The
is
when
the
allowance
let it boil.
in the pot.
Keep
is
it
hot, but
do not
good
strainer
made
of a piece
of gauze
sewn on
Keep
Gloria:
Make
when
the
same
little
as
fine
cafe
noir.
brandy over
Set
fire to
and drink.
it
be used or
Tea:
Have
it.
set for a
few minutes,
warm
place,
to "
draw."
And now,
in the
camp experiences may save some unlucky wight, who spoils the dinner because he did not know how to cook, from the " cobbing " that he richly
CAMP COOKING
deserves,
in
we
just
will close
who had
"
But where
dining."
the
man who
can
live
without
. .
INDEX.
PAGE
PAGE
Apple slump
Bacon, fried Bags, for holding food
sleeping
106
Camp, permanent
shelters
12
76 20
19 18 61
Baker
Batter-cakes Barbecue, dressing.
.
Cereals,
fish
cooking
22 53 20 49 64
71
Chowder, clam
79 78 95
101
72
101
69 Southern style 69 Daniel Webster 70 Chanterelle, stewed. 104 Chimney to log house 32 Clams, baked 90
.
Bedding Beds
canvas
14
chowder
fried Clavaria,
,
71
browse
pole Beef, boiled Beets, boiled
36 38 37 37 77 99 43
19
fried
Clothes
Coffee, black
can
Gloria
to
no
109 33 52 52 59
15
make
variation
20
15
60 40-61
61
Cooking
in utensils
camp
62 62
61
Coprinus, shaggy mane 104 Corn, boiled green... 98 meal mush 63 Curry of rabbit 82
spider
Camp
fire
beds
Desserts
making
37 38 33~35
I
105
Eggs, boiled
fricasseed
91 93
13
H4
Eggs, fried on hash omelette sandwiches scrambled
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PAGE
91
PAGE
Fried rabbit
squirrel
81
79 92
91
sausages
80 77
17
Frypan
92
Game, cooking
dressing for food.
fricassee
.
79 80 82 83
Firearms
Fireplace
13
Fish balls
38-39 90
45
76
78 20
86-88 boiled 85 broiled 87 care of 45 cleaning 44 cooking 84 fried 85 knife 46 planked 88 preparing 84 sauce 86 skewered 87 spoiled, danger from 49 Flapjacks 61 Food, cooking 59 preparation 21 quantity needed. .15-16 Fricassee partridge. .. 83 Fried bacon 76 bread 61 clavaria 104 eggs 79-91
.
. .
bag baked
43
16
Kettle
Knife
fish
for
cleaning
46
Lean-to camps 27-28 Liquor in camp. ..... Lob-scouse 68 Lost in the woods... 51 searching for 54
Macaroni
Meat, barbecued cooking of dark, cooking white, cooking Mosquito netting
repellent
102
78
73
74 74 42 42-43
63 102 103 103 102-105
12
Mush
Mushrooms
broiled
fish
ham
meats
mush
potatoes
85 76 18-75 63
Elm
selection of
96
75
pork
Nessmuk
INDEX
PAGE
Omelette, egg
92 93 93
.
ii5
PAGE
Quail, roasted
81
ham
aux
fine
herbes
11
with
89
J3 103
Rabbit, curry 82 fried 81 Rain, effect on tent. 23 building fire in 41 Rations for camp... 15-16 Rice, boiled 63 pudding 105 Roasting in the ashes 18
vegetable
Roast grouse
Paymaster
Perch, yellow, dressing white, dressing
fried Pickerel, dressing....
34
47
82 82
19 103
48
85 48
19
76 76 75
75
100
Skunk stew
preparing for cooking Sleeping bag Soups, bean pea
turtle
97 77 22 34 67
68
19
and
greens
100 96 95 96 97
meat
Spider-cake
Squirrel Steaks, broiling vegetable Stew; beef
72 72 67 65
61
mashed
salad
96 97 96 33
67-73-80 74
104 65 65 73
105
camp
oyster
rabbit
^ *^
flour
plum
rice
sauce tapioca
Puff-balls, fried
skunk tomato
venison Succotash
Cape Cod
Supplies,
list
style
66 67 100 66 98 99
15-21
43
of
n6
Tapioca pudding
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PAGE
106
Tea
Tent,
23 26 effect of rain on... 23 pitching 24 shanty 24 wall 23 Toast, milk 64 Tomatoes, stewed.... 100
no
tent.
PAGE 24
49
dog
94
95
cook
. .
Wood,
choice of
40
APR
19 1909
iiil
Ill
II 11