Scouting, Volume 28, Number 7, July 1940 Page: 15
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SOURCE MATERIAL
Vacation-time
7. Raisins: Rinse. Allow 1 cup
water for each cup of raisins, and
boil 10 minutes, adding V2 table-
spoon sugar for each cup fruit.
8. Mixed Dried Fruits: Rinse
fruit. Clip cores from pears. Cover
generously with water and boil 35
to 45 minutes. Add x/\ cup sugar
for each cup of fruit.
9. Fruit Purees: Cook fruit
slightly longer than when it is to
be served whole. Force through a
colander, sieve or ricer. (Pits
should be removed from prunes
if ricer is used.) One cup of un-
cooked dried fruit will yield about
1 cup of puree. For some recipes,
as whips and sauces, the cooked
fruit may be beaten to a pulp
rather than made into puree, thus
saving time and energy.
Success and popularity is as-
sured when dried fruit prepared in
this manner emerges plump and
tasty. Obviously, with the soaking
of dried fruits no longer necessary
through modern packing house
processing, another short cut is
welcomed in the busy camp sched-
ule. And so to campers and hikers
we recommend dried fruits—-and
other concentrated, easy to store,
good tasting camp foods.
CONSERVATION
OFTEN we have seen certain
hustling Troops make a grand
continued effort and gather an in-
credible amount of old newspapers
and magazines. Carloads have
even been achieved. A carload is
a lot of paper or possible pulp.
These Troops have made money
for essential equipment by this
means.
Today all English, Canadian and
Australian Scout papers carry no-
tices of paper collecting by Scouts.
Waste of valuable resources is thus
prevented.
Much of American paper pulp
came from Finland — Norway —
Canada. Today we know the ter-
rible toll exacted from those
countries by the war.
Our numerous plastics are de-
rived from pulp. Our voluminous
newspapers use pulp. Our endless
magazines consume vast quanti-
ties. We should conserve. The mil-
lions of tons of papers our Scouts
could collect would be a grand
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An interest in wild life is the first step toward an interest in conservation with all its many
important, practical phases.
contribution towards constructive
conservation.
Going back a step farther, let
us conserve our forests. Some-
times it takes only a smouldering
careless spark to start a fire that
consumes millions of possible feet
of useful lumber and potential
pulp. It also breaks down the
former forest land into a black-
ened, gully-washed waste.
I have personally stepped on
and out countless cigarette butts
thrown down carelessly.
Years ago in the cattle country
the hard riding cowboys were
painfully careful of fires and
matches. I knew a saddle drummer
on one range who carelessly threw
a still burning cigar out of the
stage coach in which he was trav-
eling. Four days later, when the
fireblistered and blinded cowboys
had traced this prairie fire back
to that cigar butt and to that
drummer, his last sale had been
made. He was run off the range.
Careless handling of fire should
really be a crime.
Constructively, we as Scouters
can do so much. It's a case of
hammering it into our Scouts and
setting a 100 % example ourselves.
In the old cowboy days a burned
match was rolled between the
fingers. Cigarettes were pinched
out. Of course, once in a while a
hot match head burned one's fin-
gers a bit, but it started no fires.
AUGUST AND
SEPTEMBER
ANNIVERSARY DATES
TN AUGUST, 1933, the 4th
World Jamboree was held in
Hungary at Godollo.
JULY, 1940
Every Scout a Camper!
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