Salt Lake Telegram | 1929-06-23 | Page 4 | Sound Instruction Enlivened by Humorous Touch in Quaint Volume

Instruction Enlivened by So Sound Dd Humorous Touch in Quaint Volume Jackknife Cookery Contains Valuable Suggestions for Campers Rv Ru RI 7 1 T Whoever heard of a cookbook cookbook- most prosy of all reading material carrying c with wIlli it a flavor of adventure ad- ad adventure adventure ad ad- venture a tang of the woods the mountains and the sea In hi Its pages Such a book is James A. A Wilders Wilder's Jackknife Cookery written ostensibly ostensibly osten osten- sibly for boys But i if you are a n. aman aman I man lost in the woods and with nothing but your Jackknife along you'll be bo rewarded if It youve you've read Jackknife Cookery along with your Boy Scout son If youre you're a woman who ikes outdoor camping you ou will never again attempt the home homo methods of ot cooking over a campfire after youve you've read this cookbook James Wilder has for many years been associated with the Boy Scouts His lUs knowledge of bf jackknife jackknife jack jack- knife cookery extends o er over a long period of years and over a a. vast amount of ot territory South sea island cookery California or gold miner cookery Japanese Chinese a and d Borneo cook cookery ry New England cookery are a f few w among the di diversified diversified dl- dl ver versified kinds of his cuisine knowl edge Incidentally while the author is Js expounding in rollicking fashion the method of making kabobs kaboos and twisters twitters from meat and dough he heIs heis heis is explaining In detail the kind of ot fire Ire necessary to cook these delectable delectable delec delec- table viands And incidentally too tOOt one learns not only how to cook a square meal for himself but how liow to feed a a multitude in time of floods train wrecks cyclones and other disasters disasters' with which every year sections of ot the country are visited No man woman or child loving the out of or doors can resist wanting I to try a recipe that reads Re nn following lt it it is the Jackknife recipe for bread breadon on a stick or twister 1 One One heaping fistful of flour 2 2 J i lOne One five finger pinch of bakIng baking bak bak- ing powder 3 3 1 One pinch of ot sugar 4 4 One Ono three finger pinch of salt 6 6 5 One two-finger two gob of grease fat fat butter lard 6 6 One or or- two fistfuls of water P Particularly is Js this recipe recipe and and others similarly outlined outlined intrIguing intriguing when accompanying it there are twister details In pep pei and ink sketches Onel never mistake the size of a pinch of this or a agob agob agob gob of that after looking at the illustrations A boy bo mar may have his first Interesting interesting inter Inter- esting eating taste of ot physics and chemistry chemistry chemistry chemis chemis- try in baking powder and other cookery talks brought to his level he lie may get his first deep interest I in sociology when he learns Jackknife jackknife jackknife Jack- Jack knife cookery meth methods gs of men from the stone age showing a migration over Mesopotamia Siberia northern and southern Japan thence from filom island to island illand three thousand miles across the Pacific oc ocean an to the present day The different sorts of f Imus pronounced Imus pronounced In in which anything from a spud to a sixty-pound sixty hog I is cooked cooked are are described described de de- scribed in detail The chapter on accidents contains knowledge that every should hould know the enemy Discomfort Discomfort fort is banished by Informative scout methods the every should know are inventoried The yarns interspersing formulae and information are the the sort of travel and campfire yarn jarn one cannot ease easily ily dispense with If one is Js to be an anU U out lC and Q out t. t camper iE E. E. E P. P Dutton Co 0 o. o