The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-07-11
ADVICE FOR CAMPERS
How to MANAGE Without Ice and How to
Make an Improved Refrigerator
Points About Fires and Lights.
Good Housekeeping.


A can filled with dried bread crumbs is
a wise addition to camp supplies. They
will come in handy for scalloped dishes
made from cold fish, canned corn, tomato
or cold meat. Use a layer OF bread crumbs
in the bottom of baking dish. then
layer Of anything else, we'll seasoned with
salt and pepper. Alternate in this fashion
using crumbs at the top. When the dish
is full, moisten with milk then bake till
brown.
A little fire, both hot and compact, is
better than a large one, which covers
yard or so of estate. The cook who kneels
by small fire will not burn the skin off
her face while tending to the food in
spider or kettle.
1t is seldom ice can be obtained while
in camp. When it can, contrive a home
made refrigerator from a wooden box with
a tin box inside, large enough to hold a
block of ice. Bore a hole thru the tin and
wood, then attach a, bit Of pipe for drain
age. Leave the tin uncovered, but have
a good tight lid for. the outer box. When
ice is an impossibility, utilize brook or
the side of a stream for. cooking food.
Put anything which has to be chilled into
a strong basket, weighted with stones If
necessary, and set it in the water.
Oil will be found the best thing in camp
for frying purposes. 1t comes In cans
with secure screw tops 1t costs no more
over again without burning. Fritters of
corn, clans or rice or French fried pota-
toes are frequent possibility with a can
of oil on hand for frying
Do not use kerosene in camp. No mat
ter how well it is corked 1T will leak and
faint everything within reach. Candles
and few lanterns are far better for light
ing purposes: -,
for cooking, choose an unsweetened brand,
and dilute with water till you have a fluid
resembling fresh milk. If it is not diluted
enough it will mean too much shorten
ing in biscuit fapjacks or anything with
which it is mixed. s-s'
If potatoes are hard to obtain, maca-
roni, spaghetti and rice, which are all
easily prepared, will afford the starchy
food required in a days menu
When eggs cannot be obtained, self
raising flour Is convenience for making
fapjacks or fritters. The addition Of half
a can of corn, cup of blueberres or a
cup of chopped CLAIMS will give variety to
the plain fla pack.
Upon a mosquito attack at camp, start
a smudge of damp bark The smoke
which should blow toward camp may be
disagreed BILE, but it is better than the con-
4 slant irritation of bites. Before bedtime
let a sn1udge clear out tents or the shanty
5 then hang at the doors and windows
double-weighted curtains Of mosquito
netting.
Sometimes stove is not possibility
In camp, then carry a small stove tor
and stovepipe along and under the shelter
T OF a tent or shack construct a stove OF
brick and clay. An oven may not be prac-
teal. but you will have an arrangement
much more convenient for cooking than
the open fire.
Aluminium is the very best material fol
camp utensils. If it cannot be afforded
choose the slightly enamel ware, blue out
side, white inside. It makes dish-wash-
4 ing a pleasure, provided you have plenty
/ OF soap, good clean dishcloths and towels
! If money Is no consideration, a camp out.
filter will provide you with kit Of every.
thing necessary, folding into neat pack
age weighing twenty -four pounds.