Camp cookery (Milam, for Boy Scouts)

Mix the dry ingredients and rub in the fat. Then add the liquid a little at a time to form a soft dough. Drop this dough onto cooked fruit, covering completely. Bake in a reflector or oven. Fried Fruit Pie or "Turnover" 1 cup flour 1 tablespoon fat 1 teaspoon baking powder }/i teaspoon salt Liquid to make a dough as for biscuit Mix as for biscuit and roll out \i inch thick. Melt 1 tablespoon of fat in a frying pan and place the pie crust in. Lay some cooked fruit on half of the crust and fold the other side over, pressing the edges together. Fry on one side until brown, and turn over, browning on the opposite side. More fat may then be added for finishing it. Fruit Loaf 1 cup flour 2 teaspoons baking powder 1 tablespoon sugar J4 teaspoon salt 1 tablespoon fat Water enough to make dough to roll out. Y cup cooked dried prunes, peaches or apples. Make a dough of first five ingredients and roll or pat out with the hands to Y2 inch in thickness. Cover with the fruit, sprinkle with sugar if not sweet enough. Roll up and bake about Y hour, pouring over a little fruit juice. Hunter's Pudding Y cup finely chopped salt pork (soaked over-night in water) Y cup molasses Y teaspoon soda Y cup condensed milk or water Y cup sugar 13^ cups flour Y teaspoon cinnamon % cup raisins Mix dry ingredients. Add molasses and milk to salt pork. Combine mixtures. Oil a lard pail, turn in the pudding, cover, set in a kettle of boiling water and steam for two or three hours. Serve with the pudding sauce. Y2 cup sugar Pinch of salt Yl cup flour Sauce Put the sugar in a frying pan and stir constantly until it turns a dark brown and becomes sirupy, but not burned. Just before it changes from a light brown to dark, add the flour and salt, and finish browning. Then add 2 cups water and stir until thickened. Gingerbread 2 cups flour Y cup molasses 2 tablespoons lard or bacon fat Yi cup sugar Enough water to make a thick batter Mix with the flour and sugar Y2 teaspoon of soda and 1 teaspoon of ginger and, if possible, a handful of raisins or dried currants. Add the molasses and water, and bake in a medium oven or reflector. (Contributed by Jay Billings, Forest Supervisor, Lakeview, Oregon.) Ginger Cookies 2 cups flour Y cup fat Y cup sugar (brown if possible) \Y teaspoons ginger Y cup molasses Y2 teaspoon soda 1 teaspoon baking powder Y2 cup water Mix the sugar and fat, and add to this the flour and other dry ingredients, alternately with the water and molasses which have been mixed together. Roll out and cut like biscuit, or thin with a little water and drop from a spoon onto an oiled pan. Camp Cookies 2 cups flour 2 tablespoons melted fat Y cup sugar Yi teaspoon cinnamon and cloves or allspice 3 teaspoons baking powder Y2 cup raisins Mix the flour, sugar and baking powder together, pour in the melted fat, then add the raisins and enough water to make of the consistency of baking powder biscuit. Roll out about Y *nch thick, cut with a can, and bake. Rolled Oat Cookies 2 cups rolled oats 2 cups flour Y2 teaspoon salt % cup sugar 1 teaspoon cinnamon Mix all, and work into it % cup butter or other fat. Dissolve 1 teaspoon soda in % cup hot water. Add, and roll out, cutting with a can, or thin a little and drop from a spoon onto a greased pan.