Camping and camp cooking

by Frank A. Bates

Labrador tea (Ledum latifolium) when the camper is far enough north to find it, makes a pleasant drink and is preferable to coffee or “store” tea. It is tonic and pectoral, giving the habitual user a sensation of comfort and cleanliness of the system.

INDEX.

• Apple slump, [106]
• Bacon, fried, [76]
• Bags, for holding food, [20]
• sleeping, [19]
• Baker, [18]
• Batter-cakes, [61]
• Barbecue, dressing, [79]
• meat, [78]
• Beans boiled, [95]
• baked, [101]
• soup, [72]
• Bean-hole, [101]
• Bedding, [14]
• Beds, [36]
• canvas, [38]
• browse, [37]
• pole, [37]
• Beef, boiled, [77]
• Beets, boiled, [99]
• Black flies, [43]
• Blankets, [19]
• Boots, [20]
• Broiler, [15]
• Bread, baked, [60]
• frying-pan, [40], [61]
• Cakes, batter, [61]
• oatmeal, [62]
• rice, [62]
• spider, [61]
• Camp beds, [37]
• fire, [38]
• making, [33-35]
• permanent, [12]
• shelters, [22]
• temporary night, [53]
• Canvas clothing, [20]
• Cat-fish, cleaning, [49]
• Cereals, cooking, [64]
• Chowder, clam, [71]
• fish, [69]
• Southern style, [69]
• Daniel Webster, [70]
• Chanterelle, stewed, [104]
• Chimney to log house, [32]
• Clams, baked, [90]
• chowder, [71]
• fried, [89]
• Clavaria, fried, [104]
• Clothes, [14], [20]
• Coffee, black, [109]
• can, [17]
• Gloria, [110]
• to make, [109]
• Companions, choice of, [33]
• Compass, use of, [52]
• local variation, [52]
• Cooking in camp, [59]
• utensils, [15]
• Coprinus, shaggy mane, [104]
• Corn, boiled green, [98]
• meal mush, [63]
• Curry of rabbit, [82]
• Desserts, [105]
• Eggs, boiled, [91]
• fricasseed, [93]
• fried, [91]
• on hash, [79]
• omelette, [92]
• sandwiches, [91]
• scrambled, [92]
• Fils-d’une-chienne, [65]
• Fire, camp, [38-41]
• cooking, [38]
• on rainy day, [41]
• Firearms, [13]
• Fireplace, [38-39]
• Fish balls, [90]
• bag, [45]
• baked, [86-88]
• boiled, [85]
• broiled, [87]
• care of, [45]
• cleaning, [44]
• cooking, [84]
• fried, [85]
• knife, [46]
• planked, [88]
• preparing, [84]
• sauce, [86]
• skewered, [87]
• spoiled, danger from, [49]
• Flapjacks, [61]
• Food, cooking, [59]
• preparation, [21]
• quantity needed, [15-16]
• Fricassee partridge, [83]
• Fried bacon, [76]
• bread, [61]
• clavaria, [104]
• eggs, [79-91]
• fish, [85]
• ham, [76]
• meats, [18-75]
• mush, [63]
• potatoes, [96]
• pork, [75]
• rabbit, [81]
• squirrel, [80]
• sausages, [77]
• Frypan, [17]
• Game, cooking, [79]
• dressing for food, [80]
• Grouse roasted in clay, [82]
• fricassee, [83]
• Ham and eggs, [76]
• Hashed, meat, [78]
• Hats, [20]
• Health, care of, [20], [35], [50]
• Hornpouts, cleaning, [49]
• Hut, built of logs, [29]
• Insect repellent, [43]
• Kettle, [16]
• Knife for cleaning fish, [46]
• Lean-to camps, [27-28]
• Liquor in camp, [36]
• Lob-scouse, [68]
• Lost in the woods, [51]
• searching for, [54]
• Macaroni, [102]
• Meat, barbecued, [78]
• cooking of, [73]
• dark, cooking, [74]
• white, cooking, [74]
• Mosquito netting, [42]
• repellent, [42-43]
• Mush, [63]
• Mushrooms, [102]
• broiled, [103]
• Elm, [103]
• selection of, [102-105]
• Nessmuk, [12]
• Omelette, egg, [92]
• ham, [93]
• aux fine herbes, [93]
• Outfits for camping, [11]
• for permanent camp, [15]
• for trip on foot, [14]
• Oven, [18], [41]
• Oysters fried with bacon, [89]
• stew, [73]
• vegetable, [103]
• Paymaster, [34]
• Perch, yellow, dressing, [47]
• white, dressing, [48]
• fried, [85]
• Pickerel, dressing, [48]
• Pillow, [19]
• Pork, broiled, [76]
• choice of, [76]
• chops, [75]
• fried, [75]
• and greens, [100]
• Potatoes, baked, [96]
• boiled, [95]
• boiled-fried, [96]
• lyonnaise, [97]
• mashed, [96]
• salad, [97]
• stewed, [96]
• Preparing for camp, [33]
• Pudding, apple, [106]
• corn-starch, [105]
• fig, [108]
• flour, [107]
• plum, [108]
• rice, [105]
• sauce, [107]
• tapioca, [106]
• Puff-balls, fried, [105]
• “Punkey dope”, [43]
• Quail, roasted, [81]
• Rabbit, curry, [82]
• fried, [81]
• Rain, effect on tent, [23]
• building fire in, [41]
• Rations for camp, [15-16]
• Rice, boiled, [63]
• pudding, [105]
• Roasting in the ashes, [18]
• Roast grouse, [82]
• meat in clay, [82]
• Rubber blanket, [19]
• Russula, broiled, [103]
• Salad, vegetable, [100]
• potato, [97]
• Sausages, fried, [77]
• Shelters, [22]
• Size of party, [34]
• Skunk stew, [67]
• preparing for cooking, [68]
• Sleeping bag, [19]
• Soups, bean, [72]
• pea, [72]
• turtle, [67]
• meat, [65]
• Spider-cake, [61]
• Squirrel, [67], [73], [80]
• Steaks, broiling, [74]
• vegetable, [104]
• Stew, beef, [65]
• camp, [65]
• oyster, [73]
• rabbit, [66]
• skunk, [67]
• tomato, [100]
• venison, [66]
• Succotash, [98]
• Cape Cod style, [99]
• Supplies, list of, [15-21]
• Tapioca pudding, [106]
• Tea, [110]
• Tent, A, [23]
• dog, [26]
• effect of rain on, [23]
• pitching, [24]
• shanty, [24]
• wall, [23]
• Toast, milk, [64]
• Tomatoes, stewed, [100]
• Trench around tent, [24]
• Trout cleaning, [49]
• Vegetables, selection of, [94]
• time required to cook, [95]
• Walking trips, [12-14]
• Woodcock, roasted, [81]
• Wood, choice of, [40]

APPENDIX

• Ague, [121]
• Antiseptics, [113]
• Bites of insects, [114], [115]
• Blackberry, [116], [121]
• Blistered feet, [114]
• Bruises, [114]
• Burns, [114], [120]
• Carron-oil, [114], [119]
• Charcoal, [117]
• Checkerberry, [117], [120]
• Choking, [114]
• Cold, [117], [120], [121]
• Constipation, [115]
• Cough, [118], [121]
• Cramps, [118], [121]
• Cream-of-Tartar, [115], [117], [119]
• Cuts, [113]
• Diarrhœa, [115], [116], [121]
• Earache, [117]
• Eyes inflamed, [115], [120]
• Haynes’ Balsam, [114]
• Headache, [116]
• Heartburn, [116]
• Hives, [117]
• Infusions, [120], [121], [122]
• Ivy Poison, [115], [120]
• Medicine-box, [119]
• Mullein, [118], [121]
• Neuralgia, [117]
• Nosebleed, [115]
• Pennyroyal, [115], [121]
• Pepper-tea, [117]
• Pleurisy, [118]
• Poultices, [113]
• Ptomaine Poison, [116]
• Rhubarb, [115]
• Saleratus, [117]
• Salts, [115]
• Salve, [120]
• Scalds, [114], [120]
• Sore mouth, [120]
• Sore throat, [118]
• Spicebush, [115], [117], [120]
• Sprains, [114]
• Stings, [114]
• Sunburn, [114]
• Sunstroke, [116]
• Toothache, [117]
• Yarrow, [121]

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