310 CAMP LIFE. 



Tea is made by 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. Cofi"ee, by putting the 

 coffee, mixed with the yolk of an egg, 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 pepper. 

 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- 



