


is equivalent to cooking in a fireless 
cooker and the results are very satis- 
factory indeed. Beans especially are 
delicious when cooked in this manner 
and eaten with bread and plenty of 
butter. 
Should the camp be a fixed one, a 
very serviceable fireless cooker may be 
constructed of two wooden boxes (one 
to nest within the other) or with two 
boxboard containers; the space between 
the two may be packed with hay, dry 
browse, dry sand, dry sawdust, any 
good dry non-conductor; the pail or pot 
containing the food to be placed in the 
inner container while the con- 
tents are boiling hot and then 
packed about with warm sand 
or warm pebbles. 
Deer medt may be cut into 
strips, suspended from the ends 
of green wood twigs, and broiled © 
over a moderate fire.. It will 
usually be tough, half raw and 
not very palatable, yet that very 
same deer meat may be seared 
over the fire, cut into inch pieces, 
covered with water, simmered 
- available, 
for two hours with salt pork 
and lots of diced onions, thick- 
ened with flour, seasoned with 
pepper and salt and a little En- 
glish mustard and served as a 
very appetizing goulash or as 
a palate-tickling stew. Should 
a meat-grinding machine be 
passed through the machine, sea- 
soned with pepper and salt, ren- 
dered savory with a little poultry 
seasoning and made into sau- 
sage meat that will be eaten with gusto 
and remembered gratefully. 
Coffee that will be as fine, as clear, 
as aromatic as can be procured at ho- 
tels of the highest grade may be made 
in camp, but, to be of such quality, it 
must be made by one who knows how 
to make fine coffee, and it is as simple 
a matter to make good coffee as it is 
to serve coffee that is all but undrink- 
able. 
Camp cooking should be done over a 
fire that varies according to the food 
to be prepared and it should not be 
forgotten that all cooks prefer to bend 
over a cooking fire rather than to squat 
deer meat can be i 
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beside one. Coffee may be. prepared 
over a fire no larger than the hand, as 
the coffee will remain warm for a spell; 
that same fire will serve to cook any- 
thing that may be prepared in a short 
time in a fry pan. 
Cooking fires are intended to cook 
with and not to supply warmth, and 
cooks generally object to being roasted 
and smoked up while cooking. The 
amateur cook is the only person who 
ever attemps to prepare food over a 
fire that radiates heat intense enough 
to scorch objects within six feet. Hard 
wood that is dead and dry burns with- 
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out smoke down to a bed of white hot 
coals that make a fine cooking fire. 
That sort of wood is the kind that the 
cook should use and is the kind the 
cook of experience will use. 
Beware of those who advise cooking 
after strange methods and beware espe- 
cially of such as advocate the cooking 
of birds or fowls with the feathers on 
enveloped in clay and baked in the hot 
ashes. It is possible to cook after this 
fashion, and food that is palatable may 
be the result of such cooking, but ama- 
teurs never, never succeed at it. Should 
the desire to prepare food in this man- 
ner become too strong to resist, the 
cook should go some distance from 
camp and experiment in seclusion for 
the benefit of the experience. It is 
quite unfair that others of the party 
upon their return should find the camp 
looking as though a “whiz-bang” shell 
had exploded in the immediate vicinity. 
One trial of this style of cooking will 
convince the most skeptical that cook- 
ing in a reflecting baker is the best 
method yet devised of preparing bis- 
cuits, baking powder bread, meat, fowls, 
fish, furred or feathered game for 
camp use. 
The female of the human species 
grown to adult size, who is a 
good camp cook and who is will- 
ing to do cheerfully a full share 
of the camp chores, is sure to 
be the most useful and appre- 
ciated member of any camping 
party, while the helpless woman, 
who must have all things done 
for her while in camp, is sim- 
ply useless excess baggage and 
far better left behind. The 
camp is not the place for nag- 
ging, for the average man gets 
nagging enough at home. The 
camper appreciates highly the 
services of an efficient and will- 
ing female helper while the 
woman idler is but a millstone 
around the neck of an easy- 
mark. The automobile and the 
motorcycle are much used now 
as touring vehicles and it is not 
unusual, while passing along 
the highway, to see the she of 
a touring party calmly mani- 
curing her finger nails while 
the he is striving desperately to set up 
camp and cook a sniack for supper, the 
meanwhile keeping anxious watch upon 
a squall that is developing and seems 
destined to break about sundown— 
A good camp cook can do more to in- 
sure a happy party, a contented camp, 
a pleasant outing, than any other in- 
fluence or any other half dozen influ- 
ences combined. JOSEPH W. STRAY, 
Brooklyn, N. Y. 
To MAKE Your LINE LAST 
never fail to dry it after use. If you 
do no possess a line dryer, simply wind 
it around the back of a chair. 
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