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.

Playing Indian

6 recipes in this part of Outdoor Cooking.

Playing Indian

IN COOKING OUTDOORS Sooner or later we have to acknowlour everlasting debt to the original American, the Indian, for it was from tribes…

Slew-Eat-Um

This method of cooking fish (or meat) beside a campfire or outdoor fireplace is best suited to a big whole pike, shad, salmon or…

Go-Gruntum-Leechum

Send young bucks into glades-gather tender wild leek while dew is still on them. Strip and wrap in damp rockmoss until sun again grows old…

Red-Skin Pemmican

3 PARTS DRIED VENISON OR BUFFALO MEAT DRIED WILD BERRIES (OPTIONAL) I PART MELTED FAT Prepare dried meat by cutting lean slices off carcass…

Sweet Pemmican

3 PARTS DRIED BEEF VENISON OR BUFFALO 2 PARTS FAT OF BOILED MARROW BONES This is called sweet because of the extra amount of rich, fine…

Pale-Face Pemmican

3 POUNDS DRIED BEEF 2 POUNDS SUET, MELTED 14 POUND RAISINS Grind beef to powder, mix and pound together with melted suet, then let it cool…

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