indifferent, or what? A hundred years ago one man 

 could teach a dozen states the value of an apple tree; 

 now a dozen strong organizations seem unable to con- 

 vince people of the value of a pine tree. 



About Camp Cookery 



BY D. LANGE 



The orthodox cooking utensil for the camper is the 

 frying pan and it deserves an honored place. Little 

 however, need be said about its use, for all men and 

 many women know that almost any article of human 

 food may be either cooked or heated in the frying 

 pan. A good camp frying pan should have a folding 

 handle which permits the insertion of a stick into the 

 handle, otherwise the camper is in constant danger 

 of burning his fingers, which is particularly painful 

 in camp, because there is generally no wife or mother 

 present to nurse and bandage the seared digits. The 

 camp cook also soon learns that the smoke of a camp- 

 fire blows in many directions and that it is not pleas- 

 ant to squat like an Indian over a smoking campfire. 

 Each well-appointed camp has two frying pans so the 

 bacon does not get cold while waiting for the pota- 

 toes to fry. The size of the pans depends on the num- 

 ber of people in the party, but I have found the small- 

 est size on the market too inconvenient to work with 

 under an} r conditions. 



A very close second to the frying pan. a cooking 

 dish, is the tin pail. In the tin pail the camper makes 

 tea, coffee, chocolate. In the tin pail he makes many 

 kinds of soup, thick and thin, and all kinds of stew. 



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