From: Jim Moss (BSARecLaw@Earthlink.net)
Date: Fri Feb 07 2003 - 20:41:23 CST
I was there in 67 also. Your remarks brought back a flood of memories.
Pancakes! Lemon Drops! Tetrox Trots.
I will now start therapy again to forget some!!
Jim Moss
PO Box 2656
Silverthorne, CO 80498-2656
JHMoss@Earthlink.net
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ken Flanagan" <kenflan@raex.com>
To: "Multiple recipients of list philmont" <philmont@troop47.com>
Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 7:30 PM
Subject: Re: [Philmont]: RE:Cooking Skills
> Here's another "Back in the Day" story. From what I remember, in 1967 we
> cooked all of our suppers and at least half of the breakfasts. I really
> don't remember the specific menus, but it was more than boiling water and
> adding to the mix. Lunches included among other things crackers, candy
bars,
> Vienna sausages, small cans of Spam, peanut butter and jelly that you had
to
> reconstitute with water and powdered drink mixes. The breakfasts had Tang,
> cereals, pancake mixes, etc. One of the more vivid memories is making
French
> toast from melba toast and powdered eggs. The syrup was made from a
powder.
> You haven't lived till you tried that one. We did all our cooking over a
> fire and used an industrial soap "Tetrox" to soap the outside of the pots
to
> ease washing. We were able to buy junk food at the commissaries at Ponil
and
> Baldy so we all had an ample supply of lemon drops with us.
>
> In training my crews for the trips, I have always stressed that I don't go
> to Philmont to cook, camp and hike. Those three things you have to do
while
> you are there and you better know how to do all three before you get
there.
> I tell them I go to Philmont for the enjoy the country, the ranch, the
> programs, interaction with the staff, and the beauty of nature.
>
> Yes, the cooking and food preparation has become easier over the years,
but
> hasn't everything. The menus are certainly not gourmet meals but they were
> for the most part tasty and filling. They have always kept my crews going
> with plenty of energy. If having a quick prepared breakfast will allow me
> another half hour to sit at Window Rock and enjoy the beauty, then I say
> that is a great breakfast.
>
> Ken Flanagan
> 10 Treks
> 1 Autumn Adventure
> Second AA in September
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