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Camp Cookery. How to Live in Camp

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Camp Cookery. How to Live in Camp

by Parloa, Maria · Page 31 of 43 · 14,739 words

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of boiling water, salt and pepper to taste. When the fat is hot, stir in the dry flour, and cook until brown, then stir in gradually the boiling water. Season to taste, and cook five minutes. This sauce can be varied by adding any kind of catsup. Dried Apple Sauce. Pick and wash the apples carefully, then place in a tin pail with a cover. For one pint of dried apple, cut the thin yellow skin off a lemon, and then pare and cut up the inside. Put the yellow skin (be careful not to get any of the white) and the inside into the kettle with the apple, and three pints of cold water. Cover tight, and simmer three hours, then put in one pint of sugar, but do not stir the apple, and simmer two hours longer. _Never stir_ dried apple-sauce. DRINKS. Tea. SCALD the teapot, and put in the tea, allowing one teaspoonful to each person; pour over this half a cup of _boiling_ water (soft water is the best), and steep in a hot place, but not where it will boil, ten minutes; then turn in all the boiling water you wish, and serve. Coffee. For coffee, two-thirds Java and one-third Mocha gives you a very fine flavor. When buying, have them mix it in the store. Shells. Put one quart of cold water and half a cup of shells into the pot, and boil gently four or five hours; add boiling water occasionally. About twenty minutes before serving, add one pint of new milk and boiling water enough to make three pints in all. Let this boil a few minutes, strain and serve. Chocolate. With four spoonfuls of grated chocolate, mix one of sugar, and wet with one of _boiling_ water. Rub this smooth with the bowl of the spoon, and then stir into one pint of boiling water; let this boil up once, and then add one pint of good milk; let this boil up once, and serve. Prepared Cocoa. Prepared cocoa is made the same as chocolate, omitting the sugar. All milk may

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