Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1899-11-11
Suggestion for Sportman's Camp

thrown into water, and sandstone
should not be used for the purpose, ut
generally shivers into grit
Bread is the most necessary article of
diet, and at the same time the most
difficult to make. Corn bread in the
form of ash cake may ne baked simply
in the hot ashes, and soda biscuit OF
hoe cake may be made on hot stones
or sheets of bark propped up before the
fire at a suitable angle.
When cooking on Stones, It IL not
difficult to get an even top and bottom
by taking two fat stones, instead of
| one, propping them apart with pebbles,
heating them. busting off, a1d then in
sorting the article to lie baked OF fried.
DO not use limestone, for IL will quite
| likely burst when heated.
The simplest, quickest ami best way
to make bread in the woods Is to bake
II on a stick. The Southwestern meth.
cd is as follows:
| Cut a green stick-sassafras il You
can get 1t; never hickory about the
size of a broomstick, remove the bark
| from one end for two or three feet,
sharpen the other, and set the stick be-
fore the fire to heat. Then prepare the
dough with baking powder, salt and
larG, as you would biscuit; roll 1t to a
| thickness of a quarter of an inch-a
| piece of peeled sapling for rolling pin
and a sheet of bark for molding board
-cnt the dough into strips, al wind
them spirally around the stick like a
ribbon.
BY turning this dough slowly over
the fire, your bread will bake through
and brown nicely within five minutes.
On stripping II from the stick, yUu
have hollow roll, which may be died
with bntter and jelly " you are provid.
ed with such Iuxurie5. When the
bread is left on its stick before the
fire, it keeps hot q long time, and may
be picked off as wanted. rlig
But bread made with baking powder
gets monotonous after a while and
unleaveped bread IL sometimes well
come change. 1t In baked In the same
1 way. but the strips of dough should he
one-half an inch thick, and the stick
should be set at an angle before the
FIRE where the baking can proceed more
slowly. The bread will be dune In about
half an hoalr. In my own camps the
leavened product was called stick
bread" and the un,eavene1 Club
bread" but nobody ever bothered his
head to discover why. .u
Such are the shifts and expedieuts to
which men are driven when cast away
from civilization, but II should not be
supposed that a meal cooked by these
primitive methods need be less tooth
some than one prepared in a city
kitchen. The game is fresh, the ap-
petite keen the surroundings romantic
and who would mind little wood
ashes or smut Of charcoal when the
juicy meat is done to a turn?
You may make a plate out Of fla
grant bark, white out a spoon, o.
stick a mussel shell into split stick
Then. drawing your sheath knife. 20,
attack the meal with a relish such al
you never had at home.
Dinner over, the remnants are tOsse,
to the dog; the broiliDg sticks fly ont
way and the plate another; you drive
your knife into the ground to cleanse
1t Of grease, wipe It en- a leaf. and
that is all. You can lie back at your
ease and chuckle to yourself:
Thank goodness. there are no dishes
to wash!"-Horace Kephart In the
Youths Companion.