AUGUST, 1917 
FOREST AND STREAM 
371 
For the 
Backwoods Menu 
At the dinner hour the meal may be 
started with soup—canned soup like Heinz’s 
or the flour form, which with water, stir¬ 
ring for about fifteen minutes, will pro¬ 
duce a perfect soup. Each carton, which is 
enough for 6 plates, costs 13 cents. Or 
one may prefer the Dehydro Cream Soups 
which can be carried in hermetically sealed 
cans, supplying such variety as celery with 
rice, onion, potato, pea, bean, spinach, and 
mixed vegetable. Each can will provide 
one quart of delicious soup, and costs only 
15 cents. 
One of the most difficult problems the 
camper has is to find fruits and vegetables 
in portable form. The Dehydro process 
extracts the water without impairing flavor 
or food value and reduces weight and bulk 
to a minimum. For instance one pound of 
Dehydro strawberries is equal to 16 pounds 
of fresh strawberries. Beans, sweet corn, 
cabbage, spinach, etc., can be easily car¬ 
ried, as well as cranberries, strawberries, 
and other fruits in small cans at 10, 15, 
and 20 cents, each can making 4 to 6 por¬ 
tions. 
So for the noonday meal we can build a 
menu something like this: soup, planked 
venison steak or other meat killed, edged 
with vegetables, or boiled fish with egg 
sauce; sweet corn or onions and creamed 
potatoes, hot biscuits, coffee or tea, and 
for a simple dessert perhaps crackers and 
jams. 
At the evening meal we can serve 
creamed fish or fish cakes, canned pork 
and beans with tomato sauce, or red kid¬ 
ney beans. 
One of the chief charms of camping out 
is camp-fire cooking, and it is as much a 
real art to serve well cooked meals in the 
woods as it is for the chef of a big hotel 
to please his patrons. Just a frying-pan 
and a can of fat was the old idea, but in 
these days of camp grates, folding bake 
ovens, and portable cooking outfits, the real 
camper is a real cook and his menus are 
varied and tempting. Forest and Stream 
always aims to be of practical benefit to 
readers, and will be glad to furnish recipes 
for using and cooking by the camp-fire any 
of the condensed foods mentioned, or to 
suggest menus in season, showing methods 
of preparing fish and game and the uses 
of the up-to-date camp-fire cooking equip¬ 
ment. 
Now that the days are here when Na¬ 
ture beckons us back into her confidence, 
away from the,busy streets and the wor¬ 
ries and cares of town and city life, each 
at some time has a longing “to fold his 
tent like the Arab and silently steal away,” 
but for most of the uninitiated, a horror 
of fried and burnt food, a smoky fire and 
upturned coffee-pot, is enough to deter 
them from a trial of camp life. Forest and 
Stream will gladly supply such helps and 
hints to the hungry as will help them to 
build in the backwoods a menu both tempt¬ 
ing and health building. 
ANOTHER PASSENGER PIGEON 
Editor Forest and Stream : 
I have a near neighbor who has a 
fine stuffed passenger pigeon (male) I 
would say in perfect condition. It was 
procured years ago when the Farmington 
people caught 1,000 of these passenger 
pigeons in one swoop of the net. 
The present owners, who are not million¬ 
aires, would be more than pleased to sell this 
rare bird for all they could get for it. The 
owner’s name is Mrs. Dorman, Farmington, 
Conn. Robert B. Brandegee. 
Farmington, Conn. 
A WORD FOR THE ARTIFICIALS 
It is not unwise to have both large and 
small artificials in your tackle box, and there 
certainly is a place for both the wobbler 
minnow and the underwater type. - A bass 
fisherman’s tackle box is not complete with¬ 
out several of the best known productions. 
Furnished as artificials now are, with few 
hooks, they are especially desirable and are 
such sportsmanlike lures that even the most 
discriminating and obdurate are trying them 
out. If properly used the artificial min¬ 
nows will produce results that are enough 
for your needs and demands, and if they go 
that far they are worthy, and honorable. 
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