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—154 CAMPING AND WOODCRAFTit not only drinkable but positively good. This iseasily done by parching- to a very light broyn beforegrinding, and grinding just fine enough to mix so asto be drinkable, but not pasty, as flour would be.Good wheat is as good as corn, and perhaps better,while the mixture is very good. Common rolledoats browned in a pan in the oven and run througha spice mill is as good and easy to make it out ofas anything. A coffee mill may do if it will set fineenough. Ten per cent, of popped corn ground inwith it will improve the flavor so much that yourchildren will get away with it all if you don't hideit. Wheat and corn are hard to grind, bu4: the smallEnterprise spice mill will do it- You may also mixsome ground chocolate with it for flavor, which,with popped corn, makes it very fine . . . Indigestible?Your granny's nightcap! . . You mustremember that it is "werry fillin' for the price," andgo slow with it until you have found your coefficient.. . .Now for the application. The Mexican rover ofthe desert will tie a small sack of pinole behind hissaddle and start for a trip of several days. It is thelightest of food, and in the most portable shape,sandproof, bug and fly proof, and everything.Wherever he finds water he stirs a few ounces in acup (I never weighed it, "but four seem about enoughat a time for an ordinary man), drinks it in fiveseconds, and is fed for five or six hours. If he hasjerky, he chews that as he jogs along, but if he hasnot he will go through the longest trip and comeout strong and well on pinole alone." Shooting andFishing, Vol. xx, p. 248.When preparing pinole for mountaineering trips,I 'jsed to pulverize the parched corn in a hominymortar, which is nothing but a three-foot cut off of.a two-foot log, with a cavity chiseled out in thetop, and a wooden pestle shod with iron. Thehole is of smaller diameter at the bottom than at thetop, so that each blow of the pestle throws most ofthe corn upward, and thus it is evenly powdered.Two heaping tablespoonfuls was the usual "sup,"and, if I had nothing else, I took it frequently duringthe day. With a handful of raisins, or a chunkof sweet chocolate or maple sugar, itmeal.made a square