nces that modified circumstance will permit you. To carry only
a forest equipment with pack-animals would be as silly as to carry only
a pack-animal outfit on a Pullman car. Only look out that you do not
reverse it.

Even if you do not intend to wash dishes, bring along some "Gold Dust."
It is much simpler in getting at odd corners of obstinate kettles than
any soap. All you have to do is to boil some of it in that kettle, and
the utensil is tamed at once.

That's about all you, as expert cook, are going to need in the way of
equipment. Now as to your fire.

There are a number of ways of building a cooking fire, but they share
one first requisite: it should be small. A blaze will burn everything,
including your hands and your temper. Two logs laid side by side and
slanted towards each other so that small things can go on the narrow
end and big things on the wide end; flat rocks arranged in the same
manner; a narrow trench in which the fire is built; and the flat irons
just described--these are the best-known methods. Use dry wood.
Arrange to do your boiling first--in the flame; and your frying and
broiling last--after the flames have died to coals.

So much in general. You must remember that open-air cooking is in many
things quite different from indoor cooking. You have different
utensils, are exposed to varying temperatures, are limited in
resources, and pursued by a necessity of haste. Preconceived notions
must go by the board. You are after results; and if you get them, do
not mind the feminines of your household lifting the hands of horror
over the unorthodox means. Mighty few women I have ever seen were good
camp-fire cooks; not because camp-fire cookery is especially difficult,
but because they are temperamentally incapable of ridding themselves of
the notion that certain things should be done in a certain way, and
because if an ingredient lacks, they cannot bring themselves to
substitute an approximation. They would rather abandon the dish than
do violence to the sacred art.

Most camp-cookery advice is quite useless for the same reason. I have
seen many a recipe begin with the words: "Take the yolks of four eggs,
half a cup of butter, and a cup of fresh milk--" As if any one really
camping in the wilderness ever had eggs, butter, and milk!

Now here is something I cooked for this particular celebration. Every
woman to whom I have ever described it has informed me vehemently that
it is not