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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ALTHOUGH WOMEN ARE of the earth earthy, and get and keep their brute by feeding him, they do like to get away from the masculine cookery of his field and stream trophies and romance a bit, with Blushing Bunnies and Angels on Horseback. They'll have a little of the sugar and spice and try to keep everything nice with lace paper napkins even when cooking in the ashes with ear to the ground, blowing the faggots, while listening to their gypsy kettles hum. The eternal Eve sits over her cook fire with a bit of bacon or a pair of frogs hind legs on a pointed stick, seeking escape the while from such primitive elemental cookery into marshmallow roasts, taffy pulls and fancy numbers like:

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