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190 CAMPING AND WOODCRAFTtion,horror.the camp flapjack need no longer be a culinaryDesiccatefl eggs made of the yolks only are merelyuseful as ingredients in cooking.Milk.— Sweetened condensed milk (the " salve "of the lumberjacks) is distasteful to most people-Plain evaporated milk is the thing to carry — anddon't leave it out if you can practicably tote it. Thenotion that this is a " baby food," to be scorned byreal woodsmen, is nothing but a foolish conceit.Ftw things pay better for their transportation. Itwill be allowed that Admiral Peary knows somethingabout food values. Here is what he says inThe North Pole: "The essentials, and the only essentials,needed in a serious arctic sledge journey, nomatter what the season, the temperature, or theduration of the journey — whether one month or«ix — are four: pemmican, tea, ship's biscuit, condensedmilk. . . . The standard daily ration forwork on the final sledge journey toward the Poleon all expeditions has been as follows: i lb. pemmican,I lb. ship's biscuit, 4 oz. condensed milk,3/2 oz. compressed tea."Milk, either evaporated or powdered. Is a veryimportant ingredient in camp cookery. Look againat the cook's time-table previously mentioned.Years ago I used to get an excellent powderedmilk ^rom a New York outfitter. It dissolvedreadily, was quite creamy rich, and had none of thescalded taste that one notices in most brands ofevaporated milk. Then it went out of the market,and I have looked for it in vain. It was made ofwhole milk, retaining the butter fat. That waswhy it was rich, and that is why it was not a commercialsuccess, for it would not keep well in storage— the fatty part would turn rancid, or atgrow stale.leastI do not know of any but skim milk powder?now on sale, excepting certain high-priced ones sole!as food for infants or invalids, and none of thesehas the fresh milk flavor of the kind I got from the