all provisions butter is one of the hardest to keep. 

 Unless one can set it in a cold spring or stream it soon 

 becomes rancid. It should be kept in a tin pail. 



The food I miss most in camp is bread. "With most 

 campers nothing can really take its place. "When 

 there is no longer any bread in camp something is 

 missing. 



My plan is to take along as much fresh bread as 

 possible. An ordinary loaf a day for each person is a 

 fairly liberal allowance and half a loaf can be made 

 to do. One of the difficulties in warm and damp 

 summer w r eather is that the bread becomes mouldy. 

 As soon as the first indication of mould appears, the 

 affected spots must be trimmed off; the bread should 

 be placed in a clean muslin bag and placed in the 

 sun to dry. This bread like some other camp dishes 

 might not be attractive at home, but it tastes good in 

 camp. If it gets too hard, it can be softened by being 

 placed over night in a closed tin pail together with 

 a damp cloth. I do not bake in camp, except in 

 case of real need. I bake biscuits and pan cakes, 

 leaking takes too much time and my object in camp 

 is to provide wholesome appetizing meals that do 

 consume in preparation as little time as possible, for 

 I never find enough time for exploring, fishing, bird- 

 ing, botanizing and observing all k^nds of woodland 

 creatures. For these purposes one must frequently 

 leave camp early in the morning, stop somewhere for 

 a light noon lunch and return after dark. 



On such occasions baking bread would be too 

 long and laborious a process; but if one can heat up 

 some bean or pea soup, make a pail of coffee, fry some 



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