Vegetables. Potatoes (fresh).... 30 (^ bu.) 30 Onions (fresh) .... 5 5 5 5 Carrots (fresh) .... 5 5 Tomatoes (canned). 10 (4 cans) 10 Dehydrated vege- tables 4 4 Beans 4 6 4 6 Split peas 2 3 3 2 Canned baked beans. 3 3 3 3 Lbs 18 30 59 61 14 CAMP COOKERY. Beverages. Coffee (roasted, ground) 4 4 4 4 Tea 1 1 1 1 Chocolate (unsweet- ened) 1 1 1 1 Lbs 6 6 6 6 LIGHT. HEAVY. Sweets. Summer. Winter. Summer. Winter. Sugar (granulated) . 8 10 5 5 Syrup 3(iqt.) 6 Jelly, jam, marma- lade 5 5 Lbs 8 10 13 16 Acids. Vinegar 1 <?»"*> 1 Pickles 3 2 Lemons 4 (2 doz.) Citric acid (c. p., cryst.) 1/4 ¥4 __ ___ Lbs Vi 1/4 T 3 Fruits, etc. Evaporated apples, apricots 3 3 3 3 Raisins, dates, figs.. 2 2 2 2 Canned blackberries, cranberries, pine- apple 24 (12 cans) 24 Shelled nuts, or nut butter 2 2 2 2 Lbs 7 7 31 31 PROVISIONS. 15 Condiments. Salt (if allowing for curing skins, etc., take 10 lbs.) 2 2 3 3 Pepper (white) .... 1 oz. 1 oz. 1 oz. 1 oz. Cayenne or chili... 1 oz. 1 oz. 1 oz. 1 oz. Worcestershire sauce. 1 bot. 1 bot. Olive oil 1 bot. 1 bot. Tomato catchup 1 bot. 1 bot. Brandy % pint. i/g pint. Mustard 1 bot. 1 bot. Sage, celery seed, nutmeg, cloves, cinnamon, ginger, curry powder . . . x x x x Lbs 214 21/4 6 6 LIGHT. HEAVY. Summer. Winter. Summer. Winter. Total lbs 119 138 317 233 Per m-an, per day 31/8 21/2 37/8 41/8 Meat of any kind will quickly mould or spoil if packed in tins from which air is not exhausted. Put pork^ bacon_, or ham in loose cheesecloth bags that can be hung up in camp, and pack them in parchment paper for transit ; so also cheese. Flour, meal, cereals, vegetables, and dried fruits go in stout bags. Ordinary flour sacks are too weak, and wet through too easily. Salt, as it draws moisture, is best carried in a wooden box or screwr top wooden mailing tubes ; butter, coffee, tea, su- gar, jam, etc., in pry-up tin cans. Camp outfitters supply small bags and tins of various sizes that stow in waterproof provision bags, and it saves trouble to buy them ready-made. Label every- thing plainly. One of the handiest things in a camper's kit is surgeon's rubber adhesive plaster. This can be purchased at any drugstore. A ten-yard spool •^ 16 CAMP COOKERY. each of the one-inch and two-inch widths will be useful in a hundred ways. This plaster is waterproof and air-tight. It will stick to any dry surface (wood, metal, glass, cloth, leather, or skin), and will stay there until purposely re- moved; yet it can be peeled off and reapplied many times. As an instantaneous mender of rents and stopper of holes or cracks it has no equal.

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Vegetables. Potatoes (fresh).... 30 (^ bu.) 30 Onions (fresh) .... 5 5 5 5 Carrots (fresh) .... 5 5 Tomatoes (canned). 10 (4 cans) 10 Dehydrated vegetables 4 4 Beans 4 6 4 6 Split peas 2 3 3 2 Canned baked beans. 3 3 3 3 Lbs 18 30 59 61 Beverages. Coffee (roasted, ground) 4 4 4 4 Tea 1 1 1 1 Chocolate (unsweetened) 1 1 1 1 Lbs 6 6 6 6 LIGHT. HEAVY. Sweets. Summer. Winter. Summer. Winter. Sugar (granulated) . 8 10 5 5 Syrup 3(iqt.) 6 Jelly, jam, marmalade 5 5 Lbs 8 10 13 16 Acids. Vinegar 1 <?»"*> 1 Pickles 3 2 Lemons 4 (2 doz.) Citric acid (c. p., cryst.) 1/4 ¥4 __ ___ Lbs Vi 1/4 T 3 Fruits, etc. Evaporated apples, apricots 3 3 3 3 Raisins, dates, figs.. 2 2 2 2 Canned blackberries, cranberries, pineapple 24 (12 cans) 24 Shelled nuts, or nut butter 2 2 2 2 Lbs 7 7 31 31 Condiments. Salt (if allowing for curing skins, etc., take 10 lbs.) 2 2 3 3 Pepper (white) .... 1 oz. 1 oz. 1 oz. 1 oz. Cayenne or chili... 1 oz. 1 oz. 1 oz. 1 oz. Worcestershire sauce. 1 bot. 1 bot. Olive oil 1 bot. 1 bot. Tomato catchup 1 bot. 1 bot. Brandy % pint. i/g pint. Mustard 1 bot. 1 bot. Sage, celery seed, nutmeg, cloves, cinnamon, ginger, curry powder . . . x x x x Lbs 214 21/4 6 6 LIGHT. HEAVY. Summer. Winter. Summer. Winter. Total lbs 119 138 317 233 Per m-an, per day 31/8 21/2 37/8 41/8 Meat of any kind will quickly mould or spoil if packed in tins from which air is not exhausted. Put pork, bacon, or ham in loose cheesecloth bags that can be hung up in camp, and pack them in parchment paper for transit ; so also cheese. Flour, meal, cereals, vegetables, and dried fruits go in stout bags. Ordinary flour sacks are too weak, and wet through too easily. Salt, as it draws moisture, is best carried in a wooden box or screwr top wooden mailing tubes ; butter, coffee, tea, sugar, jam, etc., in pry-up tin cans. Camp outfitters supply small bags and tins of various sizes that stow in waterproof provision bags, and it saves trouble to buy them ready-made. Label everything plainly. One of the handiest things in a camper's kit is surgeon's rubber adhesive plaster. This can be purchased at any drugstore. A ten-yard spool •^ 16 CAMP COOKERY. each of the one-inch and two-inch widths will be useful in a hundred ways. This plaster is waterproof and air-tight. It will stick to any dry surface (wood, metal, glass, cloth, leather, or skin), and will stay there until purposely removed; yet it can be peeled off and reapplied many times. As an instantaneous mender of rents and stopper of holes or cracks it has no equal.

Camp cookery (Kephart)