bacon or fish, and potatoes, a very good supper can 

 he ready hall' an hour after the fire is started. 



As a partial substitute for bread, I have found the 

 Swedish rye bread most serviceable. It is nourishing, 

 light in weight, more tasty than crackers and. i!' kept 

 dry, it does not mould: but it is bulky for its weight. 

 Crackers also .to some extent, take the place of bread, 

 hut 1'ew campers really relish them as a permanent 

 substitute for bread. A man who has lived on crack- 

 ers for a few weeks is willing to pay a dollar for a 

 loaf of bread. 



One might think corn mush, oat meal and other 

 cereals would take the place of bread, but they are 

 iuite unsatisfactory. " Xone of those things stick to 

 the ribs'', an old trapper said to me. 



" Knaekkebroed," pancakes, biscuits and camp 

 bread baked in the folding tinoven or in a frying pan 

 do stick to the ribs, and are the only real substitutes 

 for wheat bread. 



As this article was only to call attention to some 

 less known features of camp cookery, the reader will 

 have to consult some book 011 camp cookery or learn 

 camp baking by experiment. It is not a very difficult 

 matter, if one is willing to give the time to it. 



A word should be said about camp sanitation. All 

 scraps should be burned, or they will attract flies 

 and sometimes skunks. All excrements must be bur- 

 ied, otherwise hosts of flies will crawl over them and 

 these same flies will crawl over your victuals and 

 wipe their feet on them. 



The presence of both houseflies and barnflies, and 

 other kinds of flies at all summer, camps is one of the 



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