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.

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Soup's On!

ALTHOUGH NOWADAYS MOST outdoor soups come from cans, cubes or aluminum capsules of instant broths, if there's any gypsy blood left in you, you'll want to start your own soup pot providing there's time to keep it going and changing, constantly getting richer as you throw in tasty leftovers from both the animal and vegetable kingdom-especially bones, feet, gizzards and innards of both furred and feathered game and tame. And a good thing to start with is a heavy, marrowy soup bone with a couple pounds of beef on it. The kind that used to cost a dime and now sets you back about four-bits.

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