When the day's fishing or hunting was done, the guide had still more work to do. After setting up camp for the night, he cleaned and cooked dinner, using the day's catch of trout or venison as the main course. The meal would be rounded out with provisions he had brought along on the trip. Here is Murray's list of essential provisions and his "bill of fare":
All you need to carry in with you is
Coffee,
Tea,
Sugar,Pepper,
Butter (this optional),
Pork, and Condensed Milk.Always take crushed sugar; powdered sugar is not easily picked up if the bag bursts and lets it out among the pine-stems. If you are a "high liver" and wish to take in canned fruits and jellies, of course you can do so. But these are luxuries which, if you are wise, you will leave behind you.
I am often asked, "What do you have to eat up there?" In order to answer that very natural question, and show the reader that I do not starve, I will give my bill of fare as you can have it served, if you will call me at my camp on the Racquette next July. This is no "fancy sketch" but a bona fide list which I have "gone through" more than once, and hope to many times more.
Vegetables.
Potatoes, boiled, fried, or, mashed.
Meats.
Venison, roast. Venison sausages.
" steak, broiled. " hash.
" " fried. " spitted.
Fish.
Lake Trout (salmon). Trout (spotted).
Boiled. Fried (in meal).
Baked. Broiled.
Broiled. Spitted.
Chowder.
Pancakes, with maple sirup (choice).
Bread, warm and stale, both.
Coffee Tea.
