Camp cookery (Milam, for Boy Scouts)

"The lists given below show some of the common food materials arranged in these five groups. If the housekeeper will consult them in planning meals until she has learned where each kind of food belongs, she will have taken the first step toward providing a diet which will supply all the food needs of her family. It will be only one step, to be sure, but it should prevent two mistakes — that of serving meals that have not sufficient variety, and that of cutting down in the wrong places when economy either of time or money is needed: "Group 1 — Foods depended on for mineral matters, vegetable acids, and body -regulating substances Fruits — Apples, pears, etc. Bananas Berries Melons Oranges, lemons, etc. Vegetables — Salads- lettuce, celery, etc. Potherbs or "greens" Potatoes and root vegetables Green peas, beans, etc. Tomatoes, squash, etc. Group 2 — Foods depended on for protein Milk, skim milk, cheese, etc. Eggs Meat Poultry Fish Dried peas, beans, cowpeas, etc. Nuts Group 3 — Foods depended on for starch Cereal grains, meals, Macaroni and other pastes flours, etc. Cereal breakfast foods Bread Crackers Cakes, cookies, starchy puddings, etc. Potatoes and other starchy vegetables Group 4 — Foods depended on for sugar Sugar Candies Molasses Fruits preserved in sugar, Sirups jellies, and dried fruits Honey Sweet cakes and desserts Group 5 — Foods depended on for fat Butter and cream Salt pork and bacon Lard, suet, and other Table and salad oils" cooking fats Plan of Meals FOR MEN WITH NO PACK HORSE Breakfast — Quick bread Salt meat Gravy Beverage Dinner — Quick bread Meat or meat substitute Starchy vegetable Green vegetable (dried vegetable or edible weeds) Dessert Beverage Supper — Soup Vegetable Bran crackers or biscuits Fruit Beverage Suggestive Food Lists Quick breads — Dough boys Emergency biscuits Corn bread Bran gems Flap jacks Dough gods Sour dough biscuits Cereals — Rolled oats Farina Rice Hominy Macaroni Vege tables — Dried — Fresh — Navy beans Water cress Lima beans Sorrel Lentils Lamb's quarter Peas Mustard Carrots Yellow dock Onions Dandelion Potatoes, etc. Fr uit — Dried — Beverages — Peaches, stewed or raw Coffee Apricots, stewed or raw Tea Prunes, stewed or raw Cocoa Figs, stewed or raw Meat — Dates Bacon Raisins Ham Desserts — Game or fish Prune, Dumplings, Pie Meat Substitutes— Apricot, Dumplings, Pie Cheese Peach, Dumplings, Pie Beans Eggs Suggested Plan of Meals FOR MEN WITH PACK HORSE Breakfast- Cereal Salt Meat Gravy Quick bread Beverage Dinner — Meat or substitute Vegetable Starchy Green Quick bread Dessert Beverage Supper — Soup Vegetable Laxative bread Fruit Beverage Food Lists Cereals — Rolled oats Rice Graham mush Farina and dates or figs Cornmeal mush Fresh Meat — Mulligan Fish chowder,cakes,baked Creamed salmon Meat pie Liver and bacon, etc. Food Lists— Continued Salt Meat- Bacon Bacon fritters Bacon and dumplings Bacon and gravy Ham and gravy Corn beef stew or hash Kippered herring Codfish balls Creamed dried beef Meat substitutes — Cheese Beans Eggs Vegetables — Dried- Onions Carrots Spinach Macaroni and cheese Baked beans Lima beans Lentils Hominy Fresh — Potatoes Baked, boiled, fried Lyonnaise Water cress Edible weeds cooked Fried onions Canned — Corn Tomatoes Soups — Bean Split pea Lentil Peanut butter