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Camping For Boys

Chapter 9 FOOD-ITS FUNCTION, PURCHASE, PREPARATION, COOKING, SERVING

Word Count: 3278    |    Released on: 30/11/2017

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en the fun of living dies within us, and our digestive apparatus refuses to do its function that we "become of all men most miserable." A boy will put up with all sorts of inconvenience but rebels at once at poor food and ba

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of cheap cooks and poor food. A growing boy demands relatively more of the tissue-building kind of food than a grown person, because the body is being built up. When the full stature is reached the tissue-building part of the food is only require

e only part of them. Coffee and tea have no food values except for the milk and sugar added.

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iding and planning the food for the boys. Boys will be interested in the information given and the attractive form of presentation. The set costs $1.00. Sen

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broiled, roasted, or stewed than fried. Vegetables should be steamed or baked so that the juices may not be wasted. Veal and pork (except ham and bacon) should have no place

int. One quart sifted flour = one pound. One quart granulated sugar = one pound, nine ounces. One pint closely packed butter = one pound. Three cupfuls sugar = one pound. Five cupfuls sifted flour

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Cocoa may be purchased in five-pound cans. Condensed milk (unsweetened) in 20-ounce cans. Flour and sugar by the barrel. Beans by the bushel. Butter by the firkin[1]. For instance, a good heavy 200-pound hind quarter of beef will furnish a roast beef dinner, a steak breakfast, a meat stew supper, a meat hash breakfast, and a good thick soup full of nourishment from the bones. The

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s sufficient, arrange the menus in consultation with the Chef, keep his storeroom neat and scrupulously clean. As a matter of rec

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ables. For years two cooks have looked after the meals of 175 to 200 boys in the camps conducted each season by the writer. The wages of the head cook or chef range from two to three dollars and fifty cents a day. Some camps secure cooks from the hotels and restaurants, others from the lu

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ricassee of chicken, fricassee of lamb, haricot of lamb, pot r

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pie, corn on cob. Peas- creamed with carrots. Lima beans. Summer squash. Tomatoes- stewed, escall

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ink, and good bread and butter. Cake and fancy dishes are not necessary. The bill of fare should be

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boy takes his turn at waiting. If there are seven boys in a tent, a boy serves one day in seven. He usually sits at the right side of the leader and eats his meal with the others. This does away with a second or "waiter" table. By this system you av

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me. A number of tubs of hot, soapy water are provided for washing, and several extra tubs filled with very hot water for rinsing. At a signal from the Camp Director or person in charge, each table of boys by rotation passes from the dining room with the dishes to these tubs and each boy proceeds to do his own dishwashing and rinsing and drying. Another way is to provide two good-sized dish-pans

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own away, but cracked and placed in stock pot, covered with water an

d water, and boiled slowly until tender. All white and underground vegetables sho

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to camp life. He had to learn all over the ways of decency and reasonable table refinement. There is no plausible reason why this should be so in a boys' camp. Grabbing of food, yelling for food, upsetting of liquids, and table "rough-house" will be largely prevented by the system of seating and of

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y. In the morning the hymn on the following page is sung by the

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guardian

kept us we

hank Thee,

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