Camp cookery (Milam, for Boy Scouts)

In winter 3 heating stoves, also 1 small (sheet iron) wood cooking stove, with pipes. 2 mess boxes, one for cooking utensils, the other for tableware and light provisions, made of pine or cedar, screwed together, with hinged tops and compartments; also an inside cover, the full width of the top, which may be used as a bread board. When the lids are opened out and the two mess chests placed together they form a table of the width of the mess chests placed together and a length four times their thickness. These chests should be 2 feet deep, 20 inches wide, and 24 to 30 inches long, so as just to fill a wagon bed. The above chests, although desirable, are by no means indispensable, for the resourceful camper can improvise similar conveniences with the available materials and tools at hand. Mess kit may consist of the following articles: 2 pepper and salt boxes (aluminum ware) 2 buckets (collapsible canvas) 6 cups (enameled) 1 bread pan (tin) 2 frying pans 2 two-quart nesting stew pans (enameled ware) 1 half-gallon coffee pot (enameled ware, with wire bail handle) 1 tin measuring cup or \ pint tin cup for measuring 4 enameled camp kettles with covers, size ranging from one to three gallons, so as to nest one within the other 6 bowls for soup, oatmeal, etc. (enameled) 1 Dutch oven 1 dishpan (heavy tin) 10 plates (enameled) 1 quart cup (tin) 2 large sharp knives 1 butcher knife \ dozen steel black-handled knives and forks \ dozen plated tablespoons 1 cooking fork (12 inches long) Few feet of baling wire (about 15 gauge) Pair of plyers (side cutting) 1 dozen plated teaspoons 1 kerosene oil can White oilcloth (for table) Towels 1 wash basin (enameled ware) Where camp equipment is transported on the backs of animals, aluminum and tin should be substituted for enameled ware in order to reduce the weight, and many of the above articles must be dispensed with. The stoves for baking will be replaced by a tin or aluminum reflector or Dutch oven. The aluminum reflector is more easily kept bright than the tin, thus enabling it to reflect heat more effectively. When not in use, the reflector folds to an inch in thickness and about twelve inches by eighteen inches in dimension. It weighs only about two or three pounds, and costs from two to four dollars. REFLECTOR PLAN Parts hinged Oven can be folded together when not in use Reflector In place of a reflector a Dutch oven may be used; a device, however, which has several undesirable characteristics. It is shaped like a high and heavy iron kettle on short legs, and is provided with a massive sunken cover. It is not only heavy to carry, but is awkward to pack; but for long slow cooking it is excellent. For transportation on men's backs, practically everything must be dispensed with but a few tin or aluminum plates, cups, knives, forks, spoons, nesting pails, frying pan, and stew pan. All of these articles may be found in the aluminum camp kits which are light, compact, and complete, and which nest in a very small place. These kits are on the market at prices from $2.50 to $10.00. The miscellaneous camp tools may consist of some or all of the following, if transportation facilities permit: 1 ax 1 hatchet Assorted nails Quart canteens covered with cloth and canvas, or in