The fun of cooking

Pour this all over the beans and cover the pan; put in the oven, and bake at least two hours; uncover and brown during* the last twenty minutes. If the beans get very dry, pour on half a cup of boiling water when they are half done. **Aha!'* said Father Blair, as he put the pan in the oven when they were ready to bake. * * Those will be simply fine. Now we could have made them by putting them in a kettle over the fire and baking them so, or we could have buried the kettle in a hole in the ashes; but they are really better done in an oven if one happens to have one. And, anyway, I needed a stove to bake biscuit in, so that *s why I got one. I think we will make some for supper, too, and put them in when the beans come out. The name of the one big biscuit I 'm going to make to-night is CAMPER'S BREAD 1% pints of flour. 1% rounded teaspoonfuls of baking-powder. % teaspoonful of salt. 2 rounded teaspoonfuls of any kind of fat (lard is best). ^ pint of cold water. Put the baking-powder and salt in the flour; mix well and then rub in the lard till there are no lumps left and it does not stick to the pan; add the water^ a little at a time, and stir with the spoon till smooth. Grease a pan and put the dough in in rather a thin layer; smooth the top and bake, till, when you put in a sliver of wood, it comes out clean. Eat while warm; do not cut, but break into pieces. ^ ' Now I could have cooked this just as I could have cooked the beans, without the oven. I could have put it in the frying-pan in a bed of hot ashes and covered it and put ashes on top and let it cook till done; but it *s better to cook it this way if you can, because it *s lighter and browner. When you want regular biscuits, all you do is to make the dough into little balls, and be sure you put flour on your hands before you try it, Jack, or you *11 get into an awful mess. And then you put them in the pan and just bake them till they are done. ' * *'I like the big loaf,*' said Jack. *'It *s more like real camp cooking; biscuits are for a house.'* ''And now we are going to have something extra good to-day — ^green corn on the cob. I tell you that 's a luxury for campers ! How will you have it, boijed or roasted T' **Both/^ said Jack, who liked com immensely. **Very well, but one way at a time, young man ! We will have it boiled this noon, and we will roast it over the coals to-night. ' ' BOILED CORN Have a deep kettle full of water boiling hard; take off the huskB and silk, and boil the ears hard for twenty minutes; serve with butter and salt. * ' Some campers boil the com in the husk and think it is better that way, but I find I always bum my fingers taking off the leaves and silk, so I believe in peeling it as we do at home,** said Jack's father, as he put the ears in the kettle slowly, so as not to stop the boiling of the water. ^ ^ Now for supper, this is the way to fix it : ROAST CORN Take off the husks and silk. Put a stick in the end of the ear, and toast it brown over a bed of coals; have ready butter and salt to put on each." The baked beans proved all their cook promised they should be, and almost the best thing about them was that they were just as good cold as hot, and so saved cooking things sometimes when they were in a hurry. One day, they caught a perfectly huge fish, too large to broil well, and then their little stove proved a treasure, for the oven would just hold a baking pan ; they cooked it in this way : BAKED PISH