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.

Cooking the Catch

5 recipes in this part of Outdoor Cooking.

Cooking the Catch

DURING THE OUTDOOR season, just as soon as the angleworms begin to chirp, Friday is twice as much fish day as in winter. Not because we eat…

"Clay Pigeon" Fish

Of course if you want really to go native you'll barbecue. First scoop out a hole bigger than the fish. Line it with stones or just wet and…

Getting the Wood Flavor

Next to shad, the best plank fish are blues and trout still flipping from the sea, and bass, big or little mouth, from the lake. The plank…

Trout, Spanish Style

If you have the temperament you'll try them Spanish style for a change. Pick out one of the lesser fish of your catch, cut it up, put the…

Court Bouillon

All boiled fish need added flavor, and for this the Europeans invented court bouillon, a word now accepted in our own language to define…

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