Collecting Badges

Cook Blue

Cook Blue
  • Cook Blue
  • Cook Blue

Cook Felt Scout Badge 1910 to 1928

First Issued in 1910

This proficiency badge was worn on the right arm, starting from the cuff upwards in order of achievement.

To earn the Cook badge*

Must be able to light a ?re and make a cooking-place with a few  bricks or logs; cook the following dishes: Irish stew,  vegetables, omelette, rice pudding, or any dishes which the examiner may consider equivalent; make tea,  coffee, or cocoa; mix dough and bake bread in oven, or make a “damper” or “twist”  (round stake) at a camp ?re; carve properly, and hand plates and dishes correctly to people at table

* The requirements did vary through the years in POR.