How Can I Help? A Guide to the Kitchen for All Ages and Genders

No matter who you are, nothing makes an event more boring than not having enough to do. Feel free to ask the ladies "what can I do to help?"--we hear this question a lot in the kitchen. The following list will also give you some ideas of things that need to be done during the course of a weekend.

Check to see if we have water. If the buckets are empty, they need to be filled.
Check to see if we need more firewood, and get more if it is needed.
Keep the fire going! Add more wood any time the fire seems to be getting low.
Check to see if we have tea or lemonade mixed. If the crock is less than 1/4 full, we need to make more. Instant tea will be in the supply tent. The water crock needs to be checked as well, and more ice or water added as needed.
Keep an eye out for any 20th Century items in the kitchen area, and hide or dispose of them.
Help keep the supply tent closed when visitors are in camp.
Check tea kettles and pots over the fire to make sure they have water or liquid in them. If they are dry, take them off the fire. Let the kettles cool, then fill them up and hang them back on the fire. We always need hot water. (Cast iron will shatter if cold water is put into an empty hot pot!)
Just before a meal, check to see if we have clean wash and rinse water. This needs to be checked frequently during meal preparation also.
Fifteen minutes before every meal, set the table with bread, butter, salt, pepper and desserts, and check the tea and ice water.
The entire camp is filled with potential dangers to small children. Keep an eye out for children who get too close to the fire or hot water, etc. Do not hesitate to correct or instruct a child who may be doing something unsafe.
Wash dishes and scrub pots.
Try doing some demonstration cooking of your own.

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