Stránka:roll 1916.djvu/216

xga Woodcnft Manual for Gifls For other and better but more elaborate methods of making bread, see Kephart's book as above. For cooking fish and game the old, simple standbys are the frying-pan and the stew-pan. As a general rule, mix all batters, mush, etc., with cold water, and always cook with a slow. fire. When going into camp not far from home some think it a good plan to take a cold roast of beef with them. Soup stock should be made the first days of every bit of bones and meat. There is an old adage: Hasty cooking is tasty cooking. Fried meat is dried meat. Boiled meat is spoiled meat. Roast meat is best meat. This reflects perhaps the castle kitchen rather than the camp, but It has Its measure of truth, and the reason why roast meat is not more popular is because it takes so much time and trouble to make it a success. Cooking Without Utensils We sometimes call it "hatchet cookery," because the cook is supposed to begin Arith nothing but a hatchet. To cook a good toot hsome meal with such a meagre outfit is good proof of a skilled Wo , -craf ter. Let us assume that you have meat, fi^, potatoes, flour, and baking-powder, in addition to your hatchet. To Boil the Fish. Make a big fire and in it put twenty stones each as big as two fists. Nearby, dig a hole a foot wide and two feet deep. Get a flat hardwood board, a foot long and sk or eight inches wide. Clean ana lash the fish onto this board, with a grass, rush, bark, or root— bmding every inch or more; or else make a little basket hd of rushes, ^ruce roots, etc., lay that on the fish and bind all to the board. This is your plank. Do not use pine or any gununy wood for this, as it gives the fish a bad taste. When the stones in the fire are red-hot, roll some into the hole tiU it is filled up eighteen inches. Then put in a layer of smaU cold stones, then a layer of grass; now lay your planked fish on this upside down, that is, with the fish under the board. Cover all with a wad of fresh grass and, lastly, with two or three inches of day. Make a littleholeiit one side and pour into that about