302 CAMP LIFE. 
Tea is made 1)V pouring a little hot water on the leaves 
and allowing it to draw by the fire for ten minutes and 
then filling up with hot water. Coffee, bj putting the 
coffee, mixed with the yolk of an efyg, into boiling water 
and allowing it to boil once — no more, on your life. If 
you do not wish to use an egg, put in a teaspoonful of 
cold water immediately on taking it from the fire. This 
is done to clear it. Chocolate is made by melting a cake 
broken into small pieces in warm water, adding a cup of 
milk after it is perfectly smooth, and boiling for twenty 
minutes. An excellent tea is made of yellow birch bark. 
Bread, especially if it is a little stale, is much improved 
by toasting, which should be done by approaching it close 
to the fire, even throwing it on the coals and burning the 
outside almost black. If buttered and covered with 
brown sugar and eaten hot it makes an excellent dessert. 
If salt pork is to be broiled, it should be cut thin, and 
may be soaked well in water, dipped in Indian-meal, so 
as to bread it, and then broiled or fried brown. It can 
be used in soup by being boiled in two waters. 
Smoked beef is good if stewed a few minutes with a 
lump of butter mixed: with flour and enough milk to 
cover the whole, which may be seasoned with pepj)er. 
Fried fish that has become cold can be revived in the 
same way ; the flour may be omitted and some salt must 
be added. 
An onion may be boiled in bread sauce, and removed 
before serving, or pepper may be added ; celery chopped 
and cooked in a stew or sauce adds a peculiarly pleasant 
flavor. Tough meat of all kinds should be stewed, and 
except salt pork, meat should be rarely fried. The fore- 
