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.

Leftovers

9 recipes in this part of Outdoor Cooking.

Maple Snow Picnics

I Maine, where there are N EVERY ONE of our snowy states, such as Michigan and maple sugar camps everybody looks forward to a maple snow…

Cooking in Paper

This delectable city chef's trick is just as well adapted to the small barbecue pit, bean hole and even to the Dutch oven, either for the…

Canoe Expedients

A dugout is the perfect canoe for cooking en route, since you can go on indefinitely building fires in the bottom of it and you will only…

High Altitude Equivalents

Boiling goes haywire at high altitudes. Foods can boil and boil without being cooked, while the liquid evaporates at an astonishing rate in…

Provisions

Nobody else's food list helps the shopper for outdoor supplies, but the catalogues furnished by department store grocery departments and…

Outdoor Cooking Equipment

The minimum primitive equipment consists of an ax and a knife. Nature furnishes the rest, stones to heat, leaves and clay to wrap meat in…

Primary Equipment

The primary equipment for getting civilized meals in the open has all been boiled down into one nested mess kit consisting of frying pan…

Complete Camp Equipment

Steak tongs Extension fork Long handled spoon Set of individual frankfurter grills Box of butchers' wooden skewers Fitted seasoning box…

L'Envoi

This last winter we Browns have been camping out before the open fire in our dining room, the warmest and sunniest spot in the house before…

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