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She looked at the stalwart young man, so skilfully frying the flapjacks, and contrasted him with the effeminate fops she had met on Fifth Avenue.... But meanwhile, squaw, you'd better tear some good dry twigs off this bush for kindling."
Flapjacks are good with butter, delicious with creamy maple-sugar soft enough to spread smoothly over the butter. The sugar comes in cans. Ordinary maple-syrup can be used, but is apt to drip over the edges if the cake is held in the hand. Well-cooked cold rice mixed with the batter will give a delicate griddle-cake and make a change from the regular flapjack. =Biscuits=
But do they have to have all that every morning?" "Great Scott, no!" exclaimed the scandalized Pennington. "Some days they just have flapjacks, and some days just bacon and eggs and bread. And sometimes oatmeal extra. I didn't mean that all these came at once." She felt a bit relieved. "I'll be in to-morrow at six," she assured him, still smiling bravely. "I think I can manage it alone."
Evidently Cheyenne was trying to catch up with his dinner schedule, for as Bartley entered the dining-room he saw him, sitting face to face with a high stack of flapjacks, at the base of which reposed two fried eggs among some curled slivers of bacon.
The camp supper of bacon and flapjacks was soon followed by the spreading of blankets on the nearest stretches of sand. The Navahos went off to one side. Slade ordered Lennon to keep near him and carefully encircled their bedding-down place with the coils of a horsehair lariat. The purpose of the lariat became apparent to Lennon when he was roused by the chill of dawn.
"And yet I fear that, ingenious as we are, we cannot devise a plan to remedy the matter. I do not know about you, but I should myself much object if my birds and my flapjacks, and other things, digestible and otherwise, that I eat here were served with the cook's name written upon them. An omelette is sometimes a picture "
Flapjacks and bacon and warmed-over beans constituted his supper. Then he smoked a pipe by the smouldering coals, listening to the night noises and watching the moonlight stream through the canyon. After that he unrolled his bed, took off his heavy shoes, and pulled the blankets up to his chin. His face showed white in the moonlight, like the face of a corpse.
He set the pail down empty. "I was some dry," he said, smiling. "Got any more of these rawhide flapjacks?" The herder nodded, stooped to enter the shack, and came out with a half-dozen of the tortillas, which Andy rolled and stuffed in his saddle-pocket. "Mighty good trail bread!" he said enthusiastically. "You can't wear 'em out."
And flapjacks sopped in the grease of it! After all, a banquet is very much a state of mind. When we pulled away, the ostracized New Yorker bade us farewell with a snatch of a song once more or less popular: "Give my regards to Broadway!" We pushed on vigorously now. The head wind came up. The head wind! It seemed one of the eternal things.
Hoecake is made exactly the same as flapjacks by substituting cornmeal for flour. Emergencyrations. Detailed instructions as to the manner of preparing the emergency ration are found on the label of each can.
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