Outdoor Cooking

Cooking out of doors in 1940 — bean holes, spits, clambakes and burgoo, from three food writers who thought a campfire was the best joke going.

Table of Contents

Come and Get It!

52 recipes

When Do We Eat?

23 recipes

Out of the Bean Hole

8 recipes

Squaw Feeds Paleface

57 recipes

Girlish Grub

24 recipes

Hot Dogs, Hamburgers and Meat Balls

10 recipes

A Stack of Wheats

14 recipes

Playing Indian

6 recipes

Cooking in the Ashes

8 recipes

Cook Fires

9 recipes

Skewer Combinations

7 recipes

The Outdoor Fireplace

1 recipe

Make Mine Steak!

15 recipes

Steer Beef and Veal

23 recipes

Wild Meat

43 recipes

Bottled Sauces and Powder Tins

5 recipes

Cooking the Kill

13 recipes

Barbecues

28 recipes

Roasting on the Spit

1 recipe

Baked Hens and Roast Oxen

1 recipe

Who Hollared Fowl!

10 recipes

Hen Fruit, or X

9 recipes

Cooking the Catch

5 recipes

A Cup of Fish

42 recipes

Shellfish

16 recipes

Clam and Other Chowders

13 recipes

Soup's On!

45 recipes

Salads and Greens

12 recipes

Camp Vegs

28 recipes

Rice Is Nice

12 recipes

Cavewoman Breads, Dumplin's and Mush

67 recipes

Some Swell Sandwiches

13 recipes

When Tarzan Entertains

25 recipes

Food Drinks and Fun Drinks

43 recipes

From Nuts to Soup

9 recipes

Blossoms for Food

31 recipes

Leftovers

9 recipes

Put It in the Record

1 recipe

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