The spirit of cookery

They are cheap, portable, strong, and easily managed, fed with mineral oil, kerosene, or paraffin ; they are provided with arrangements for boiling, stewing, frying, grilling, and an oven for baking. A good practical stove with baking-dishes and a griddle, a radiator, a kettle, and a frying-pan can be bought for from £2 to £3. With such a stove the smaller ordinary saucepan may also be used ; a Warren’s cookingpot and a griller may be fitted to it for respectively £1 Is. and os. 6d. When it is not wanted for cooking it can be used for heating a room by the instrumentality of a so-called radiator or ornamental chimney. Thus adjusted it is also very useful for airing damp linen or drying wet clothes. Place a circular basket over it, and spread the things thereon ; the chimney being so contrived that the heat radiates laterally, there is no chance of burning, scorching, or smoking. In camp or kitchen the petroleum stove will boil water for tea or coffee, and milk ; it will bake bread for the breakfast, and cook any small dish besides. Similarly, it will cook the mid-day and evening meal. Of course, it cannot supply the power of a charcoal or wood hre, which may often be 66o required besides ; but in wet or stormy weather, or inside a tent, or cavern, cave, or rock-shelter, its advantages for cooking and baking are great. Its heat can be accurately graduated by raising or turning down the wicks, which are mostly two, each four inches wide. A gallon flask of mineral oil should be fitted into the stove-box. When used for some hours daily, such a stove consumes about two gallons of oil per month. Lamias burning spirit, which can be purchased at prices not exceeding 6s., are a means of great comfort on a journey. In camp such a lamp will boil milk or coffee, cook eggs in several ways, heat sauces, fry bacon, etc. ; on the march it can be used immediately at the halting-place. By its aid and that of a small frying-pan one can devil a biscuit, fry a rasher, poach an egg, or cook a kidney to accompany tea or coffee ; even the frying of meat described in the . previous chapter can be carried out with such a lamp. It may be fed with spirit of wine ; in England methylated, or methylic, true wood spirit will have to be used. Concerning bread to be baked in camp in the petroleum stove, it may be pointed out that the dough should be made of good wheaten flour, salt, and water, and raised with yeast or baking-powder. Eor fancy rolls butter and milk will have to be added to the flour besides the raising agent. For eight ounces of flour two tablespoonfuls of bakingpowder, or an ounce of compressed yeast, are requisite. When the dough is raised with baking-powder, care must be taken not to overwork the dough, and not to use too much liquid, and put it in the oven soon. When made with yeast it must be allowed to rise on a warm place for about an hour, and then be baked. If by mischance the dough have become too thin or liquid, bake it in a mould or tin. The utensils required for bread -making are a large enamelled iron (milk) basin, two wooden spoons, a flour- CAMP COOKING AND BAKING APPARATUS 66i