1906 A Bachelor's Cupboard

A BACHELOR'S CUPBOARD Around the Camp Fire fit for a king, and the muddiest camp coffee nectar to the tired, hungry man just in from a day's fishing or hunting in the wilds. Most men who camp do not need to be told the little things that combine to make camping comfort- able: how to dig a trench around the tent and how to make a stone fireplace or a stove from rocks and an old stove-top; or how to shave off fir boughs for a hard but fragrant bed. They all know that a deep hole should be dug some distance from camp in w^hich to throw refuse and debris, covering it daily with fresh earth, which so quickly kills all odors. They know the staple rations to be taken — prepared flour for griddle-cakes and hot bread, with rising already in it ; salt pork, smoked ham and bacon, dried beef, salt fish in case the fresh ones fail to bite; pilot-bread, crackers, and biscuit of all sorts, potatoes, beans, onions, canned fruit and vege- tables where fresh cannot be obtained ; Indian meal, salt, sugar, pepper, mustard, molasses, vinegar, butter, tea, coffee, chocolate — powdered and sw^eet — rice, oat- meal, baking soda, ginger, spice, soap, paraffin candles, matches, and kerosene oil. These and such luxuries as milord demands compass the culinary needs. But lest he forget — and it's so easy to do that in the excitement of going into camp — a list of other necessi- ties may not come amiss, and it includes tin kettles with covers, spiders with covers, coffee and tea pots with lips instead of spouts, gridiron, pans, basins, tin blest fare is

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