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372 CAMPING AND WOODCRAFTand broil two minutes more. While hot, season with saltand pepper, butter well, especially on gill side. Serve ontoastt.Frying.— Heat butter boiling hot in frying-pan. Fryfive minutes. Serve on hot dish, pouring over them thesauce made by thickening the butter with a little flour.Hunter's Toast.— Carry a vial of olive oil, or a smallcan of butter, and some pepper and salt mixed. Make fireof dry twigs. Split a green stick (sassafras, birch, oispicewood, is best) at one end; put mushroom in the cleft,broil, oil or butter, and eat from stick.Camp Bake.— Cover bottom of tin plate with the caps,spore surface up. Sprinkle with salt and pepper. Placea bit of butter on each- Put another tin plate on top. Seton coals, or on a heated stone, fifteen minutes. No betterbaking will result in the best oven.All mushrooms on the following list are delicious:Coprinus comatus.Lactarius 'volemus.Hypholoma appendiculatum. " deliciosus.Tricholoma personatum. Russula alutacea.Boletus subaureus. " 'virescens." bovinus. Cantharellus cibarius." subsanguineous. Marasmius oreades.Clavaria botrytes.Hydnum repandum."cinerea " Caput-Medusa."'vermicularis. Morchella esculenta."inaqualis."deliciosa."pistillaris.Canned Tomatoes.— To a pint of tomatoes addbutter twice the size of an egg, some pepper, verylittle salt, and a tablespoonful of sugar. Boilabout five minutes. Put some bread crumbs ortoast in a dish, and pour tomatoes over them. Buttercan be omitted. Some do not like sugar intomatoes.Canned Corn.— Same as tomatoes ; but omitsugar and bread. Add a cup of milk, if you haveit.Miscellaneous Vegetables.— Since campers veryseldom have any other fresh vegetables than potatoesand onions, I will not take up space withspecial recipes for others. The following time^table mav some time be useful: