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.

Make Mine Steak!

15 recipes in this part of Outdoor Cooking.

Make Mine Steak!

A NATIONAL FOOD AND drink magazine recently reported, as the result of all sorts of exhausting polls in which everything was eaten and…

Steak Sauce

Dump plenty chili sauce out of the bottle into the frying pan and heat it up on a good bed of embers and ashes with the juice of a whole…

Steak Smothered with Onions

Sear a juicy T-bone steak on both sides to seal the juices in, then fry, or broil it, while you're browning a heap of sliced onions in…

Grilled Steaks

Burn cherry, apple or hickory logs in a big fireplace, either outdoors or indoors, until you have a bed of glowing coals, without any…

Delmonico Steak

Pound a 2-inch-thick Delmonico or club steak until it measures about 11/2 inches. Salt it all over, paint with melted butter or olive oil…

Tom Davin's Pan-Grilled Steak

Plaster one side of a tender, thick beefsteak with coarse kitchen salt until a thick coating is formed. Lay it, salt side down, in a…

Beefsteak with Ale

When steak is grilled, broiled or fried to your entire satisfaction put a small piece of butter on it and pour over all 1/2 glass of good…

Porterhouse Steak De Hardy

1 porterhouse steak 11/2-inches thick. Put steak in shallow baking pan, cover with thin sliced onion. Next cover with thin sliced lemon…

Chicken Fried Steak

Hack meat slightly with a sharp knife, cut into individual pieces, and let stand a few minutes in cold water. Drain, season with salt and…

Swiss Steak

The steak should be cut at least 2 inches thick. Use 1/2 cup flour for a slice of meat weighing 2 pounds and mix well with salt and pepper…

Nevada Baked Steak

A porterhouse steak cut 2 inches thick. Rub garlic on both sides. Then make a sauce with: 4 TABLESPOONS OLIVE OIL 4 TABLESPOONS TOMATO…

Adobe Steak

3 pounds round steak, 11/2 inches thick. Pound in 1/2 cup flour, brown in fat. Add 1 cut-up onion, a small piece of garlic, 2 cups of…

Stuffed Beefsteak

Pound a slice of round steak and spread on it a seasoned stuffing of soaked bread crumbs, with or without onion. Roll and tie tightly to…

Beefsteak with Sherry Sauce

Broil steak in usual way. Lay it in a covered dish, pour on Sherry Sauce good and hot. Cover, and let stand in a warm place 3-4 minutes…

Sizzling Steaks

In camp all steaks are sizzling steaks right off the fire into the face-so there's no need to take along one of those firecracker platters…

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