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.

Cook Fires

9 recipes in this part of Outdoor Cooking.

Cook Fires

THE FIRST RULE of all outdoor cooks is a fire without flame, giving heat that can be controlled. Anyone who cannot learn and apply this…

Camp Cook Fires (Making fire in camp is another)

Making fire in camp is another matter, as any Boy Scout can demonstrate. In fact, Scouts and Campfire Girls are so well equipped with woods…

Cooking Meat

While there are many ways in which to cook meat and potatoes without the aid of cooking utensils of any kind, a most satisfactory method is…

Cooking Potatoes

The safe way to cook potatoes is to use two fires. First dig out a hole larger than needed to hold the potatoes-line it with small stones…

Other Ways to Cook Meat

Where a fairly thin, flat rock is at hand, it may be used as a natural frying pan. Place it so you can renew the fire under it by resting…

First Class Scout Cooking

Then to become a First Class or full fledged Scout, the applicant must pass the First Class Requirement No. 7, which reads thus in the…

Seneca Indian Dinner

One time a Seneca friend named Moses Shongo, one of the finest men I ever knew, told me how to prepare a big meal for a crowd with the…

Flint and Steel Fire

Your ax will strike sparks when you let it slip and glance against a rock with quartz or flint in it. You will either scowl or grin at your…

Camp Cook Fires (Credit goes to the Boy Scouts)

Credit goes to the Boy Scouts for classifying the kinds of campfires best suited to cooking and bringing the names for them into common…

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