Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1899-07-20
IN VACATION DAYS.

Almost everybody takes a vacation
during the heated season Some visit
the beaches, others go v the mountains
or the country, but growing class is
that which annually goes to the woods
and lakes of New England to camp or
| live in some rudelv-constructed cottage
"Roughing il, this is generally called,
but why make ii rougher than necessity
requires?
No outing is more health-giving than
week among the pines or at the lake
side If proper conditions are maintained
You will miss the elegance and some Of
the comforts of home, but will be repaid
by renewed strength of body and mind
and an appetite that Is surprising.
/ This department mas to do especially
with that appetite and wish 10 give you
la few points on food and cooking in camp
First, as TO the food: Take with you
the things that form the foundation Of
+ plain food. You win have little use for
/ pies, puddings and sweets, but an every
day demand for Johnny cake, potatoes.
I onions and hearty dishes. Ifat a fishing
resort be sure the supply OF nice salt
pork is ample. Fish nowhere tastes so
well as when well cooked IN camp. and
there is no reason why it should not be
well prepared
When "roughing il" In a tent, frying
pan, a kettle and some kind OF a stove
are essentials to the cook, but the stove is
not always al hand. You must, however.
have substitute, and IL can be found IN
the so-called camp stoves. or, perhaps.
better. If your party party will take
with you in the wagon that carries your
traps an old stove top, with one length OF
funnel. The stove top can be placed on
a raised foundation OF stones, the fun
mel adjusted, and you are ready to be-
gin keeping house, so far as fries and
chowders are concerned. You still need
an oven. The oldfashioned Dutch oven
used by your grandmothers will MI the
bill when placed before the Goals, and
for baked beans, baked fish OF game the
hole in the ground with the sides careful |
ly stoned can have no rival Dig deep |
enough TO take in your baking kettle. |
which should have a close-fitting top. |
When you desire to use this oven OF |
earth, at night build over 1t a hot fire
of logs, and let IL burn until a mass Of !
Goals; clean out the oven. put in your |
pot. brush over the Goals and ashes, Gov /
ering well 10 a depth OF several inches, /
and go to bed. In the morning take out |
the pot and you have delicious. hot 4
meal ready for you.
In baking beans in this way. prepare
as fos ordinary baking. but be sure that 1
you put in generous piece Of pork and /
that the kettle is well filled with water
Game birds, like partridge. may be
cooked in this oven without the use OF
the pot. Draw the bird, without remov-
ing the feathers, and then roll II in soft
clay, rubbing the clay well into the down
next the skin, until IL forms a ball around
the bird. Place this In the ashes. and
cover as before. When done you will
have well-baked brick, which. when
broken, discloses a nicely-cooked par
fridge, picked as clean as you could de-
sire, the feathers having adhered to the
clay. You may also roast any fish Of
good siZe-say three pounds in weight-in
this way by first covering with grass or
green leaves and then with clay In cook
ing pan fish, use pan Of deep fat. hav-
ing II smoking hot when YOU put In the
fish, which you have previously rolled
In meal.
fish chowder. to be at it's best re-
quires the use of milk. but when in camp
the condensed article can be substitut-
ed. have given a recipe for this chow
der In previous number, and will not
repeat. but do wish to suggest that il
you make more than required for one
meal, that you should put it carefully
away, for II is better when warmed over
than when first made
But viii not extend this talk TO great
er length. Use good sense when camp
Ing out, as elsewhere; exercise mod
erately the first day or two. sleep as long
as you can, and your appetite will take
care of itself
LOUIS ROLE.