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.

Food Drinks and Fun Drinks

43 recipes in this part of Outdoor Cooking.

Coffee

The best cup of coffee in South America can be had in Brazil or Colombia. Brazil grows four fifths of the world's supply, but Colombia…

"Coffee'' Without Caffeine

2 CUPS BARLEY I CUP WHEAT I CUP CORN 1/2 CUP CHICORY Mix the 4 cereals together and roast slowly until well browned, stirring often to keep…

Michigan Health Coffee

4 CUPS WHEAT BRAN 1/4 CUP MOLASSES 1/4 CUP WATER Moisten bran with molasses and water and rub it together with your hands. Then let it dry…

Army Coffee

This is quick coffee-just measure cold water into the pot by the cup, allow 1 heaping tablespoon coffee to each cup and 1 for the pot. Tie…

G. Washington Instant Coffee

G. Washington makes such excellent coffee in the shake of a lamb's tail that for anybody who can pay a dime for 3 cups, there's no reason…

Café Diable

Per person: 2 tablespoons fine coffee of high roast, freshly ground 3/4 cup water Juice of 1/2 orange (Save the half-orange skin, scooped…

Central American Coffee Essence

Throughout Central America and Mexico, coffee is not brewed fresh for the table but is made by pouring cold, bottled cooked black coffee…

Central American Brown-Sugar Coffee

Café de Pilón Dissolve 1/2 cup dark brown sugar by simmering in 1 quart water. Add 4 tablespoons pulverized coffee and cook only 1 minute…

Yerba Mate

For instance, delicious and refreshing yerba maté, commonly abbreviated to just yerba, or plain "herb," is drunk all over Latin America…

Cold Mate

Tetre Plainsmen and travelers drink their maté cold when hot water is not available. This is called tetre, and in the rural districts of…

Mexican Atoles

Atole is a gruel made in most cases from tortilla dough boiled with plenty of water and a variety of seasonings. It is served in cups with…

Chocolate Atole

Atole Champurrado Grind tortilla dough well. Whip it up with some water and pour into an earthen pot. Boil it down until it's thick. Then…

Bean Atole

Atole de Frijol Prepare tortilla dough as above, but cook it with beans previously boiled with saltpeter and finish in the same way as…

Rice Atole

Atole de Arroz Cook 1 cup rice without salt in boiling water until soft. Press through a sieve. Add 1 quart of hot, not boiling, milk to…

Mexican Chocolate

Aztec Chocolatl 2 SQUARES UNSWEET- ENED CHOCOLATE 1/2 CUP WATER 1½ CUPS MILK 2 TABLESPOONS SUGAR Melt and cook chocolate in water and when…

Guatemalan Chocolate

In Guatemala, as in Mexico, coffee isn't brewed fresh each time it's wanted. A strong essence is made in quantity and bottled for use; by…

Spanish Egg Chocolate

2 SQUARES UNSWEET- ENED CHOCOLATE 2 CUPS MILK 1/2 CUP SUGAR 1 2 TABLESPOON CINNAMON I TEASPOON VANILLA EXTRACT In double boiler cook…

Tiste-Nicaragua's National Drink

Roast 1 quart dried corn and grind it fine. Mix with 1/2 pound roasted cocoa beans, also ground fine, and 1/2 ounce cinnamon stick…

Guarana and Shark's Tongue

A shark's palate is as rough as a steel file, so it makes a fine natural grater for guarana. And the guarana of Brazil is put up in the…

I-Inch Vanilla Bean

2 QUARTS MILK I CUP SUGAR Parboil almonds to remove skins easily, then pound the slippery blanched nuts to paste, plop them right into the…

Horchata, or Orgeat

Horchata is Spanish for orgeat, originally a refreshing barley water which the French changed by making it with almonds, as above. But…

Melon Seed Horchata

2 CUPS MELON SEEDS I CINNAMON STICK I QUART WATER 1/2 CUP SUGAR Wash seeds thoroughly and grind them fine, shells and all, Stir in water…

Thistle Punch

Roadside thistles make a thrifty Scotch drink-but of rye-just look in the old cabin locker or under your canvas cot to make sure the…

Unfermented Wine

IO POUNDS CONCORD GRAPES 2 QUARTS WATER 2 CUPS SUGAR Cook grapes until they break, and skins are tender; let juice drain overnight. To the…

Sassafras Tea

The tea is brewed from the bark of the sassafras tree obtained in the spring after the sap has started. It is mildly astringent and is…

Slippery Elm Bark Tea

Shred bark, pour boiling water over, cover, and let cool. Sweeten, chill, and add lemon juice.

Herb Teas and Tisanes

France has never abandoned her herb teas, or tisanes, as has happened in English-speaking countries under the pressure of British…

Beating the Boston Tea Party

Mrs. Helen Morgenthau Fox, in her book Gardening with Herbs, quotes from the Virginia Gazette, January 13, 1774, a list of herb tea…

Camomile Tea

And one of the most pleasant flower teas is grandmotherly camomile, which has persisted in rural Europe since the Middle Ages and can be…

Hot Buttered Drinks

Recently hot buttered rum has had a booming revival under its own name and according to the original mixing formula, which is:

Hot Buttered Rum

Heat a metal mug, tin dipper or kitchen tumbler and in it dissolve 1 teaspoon of powdered sugar in about 21/2 ounces of boiling water. Then…

Kentucky Hot Brick

This 18th Century recipe has a healthy rival in the Kentucky fox hunters' "hot brick" which originated about the same time and is still…

Texas Stew, or Nevada Stew

This alternative buttered bourbon was originally called Texas Stew, but when John Sparks was Governor of Nevada he popularized and poured…

Syllabub

A recipe at least two centuries old says: "To make a fine syllabub from the cow sweeten a quart of cyder, with double refined sugar, and…

Scotch Athole Brose

I POUND STRAINED HONEY I CUP WATER 3 CUPS SCOTCH WHISKY Dissolve honey in water and add whisky slowly, stirring rapidly with a swizzle…

Another Old Oaken Bucket

I QUART WATER 1/3 CUP SUGAR I TABLESPOON GROUND GINGER I CUP VINEGAR This is the minimum dose. In harvest time anyway three times as much…

Whey Wig

Infuse fresh mint or sage in buttermilk whey. This ancient English "wet" can be made to perfection only in the country, with fresh whey and…

Cherry Bounce

4½ QUARTS SOUR, RED CHERRIES 1/2 POUNDS SUGAR 2 QUARTS WHISKEY Wash and stem cherries; put in a jug, including pits. Add sugar, then…

Grog

This pioneer Yankee tot is so fancied in Paris, where drinking is done outdoors, both summer and winter, in the sidewalk cafes, that it's…

Bonfire Mulls

Part of the fun of outdoor drinking is the tinkle of a tin cup or dipper on the teeth; and one of the pleasantest bonfire customs we know…

Caveman Mull

The first fashion of mulling was perhaps set in the Iron Age when a doughty caveman celebrated something by heating his spear point and…

Blue Blazer (or Blue Blazes)

I TEASPOON POWDERED SUGAR 2 JIGGERS SCOTCH 2 JIGGERS BOILING WATER TWIST OF LEMON PEEL Put sugar and whisky in one metal mug and boiling…

Kinnikinnick

If you want to go native American and give the campfire back its acrid smoke, puff for puff, put authentic Indian kinnikinnick in your…

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