Make the oven of flat stones placed together in the form of a square,
about two and one-half feet each way; around the inside of this place
other stones to form a bin. Fill this bin with small sticks. On these pile
larger sticks, crosswise, and on top of these a layer of stones. Start the
fire, allowing it to burn down until the stones which are on top settle into
the coals. Clean out quickly all the cinders with a poker, then cover the
stones with a green seaweed about one and one-half inches thick. Have
ready the clams, spread them on top of the seaweed, then the vegetables,
then the fish and a live lobster. Cover the whole with a piece of cotton
cloth to keep out dirt; then cover with seaweed until no steam can escape.
Bake thirty-five minutes. Remove the covering from one corner at a
time only — so that the rest may keep hot — and all hands take hold and
help themselves. J. Jefferson.
BEAN^BAKE.
(Outing Style.)
Build an oven in much the same way as for a clam-bake✪ Clam-Bake, except have
It round and of a size to accommodate a large iron kettle in which the
beans are to be baked. Prepare the coals as also for clam-bake and have
ready five or six quarts of beans, as the case may be, cleaned, parboiled
and seasoned with salt, pepper and molasses. In the center and on top
of the beans, place two pounds, more or less, of good salt pork cross cut.
Now^ put the kettle, with cover, containing the beans on the live coals,
cover up with fresh grass and let cook fifteen hours Have ready some
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good warm steamed brown bread, delicious butter, and all fall to, for a
feast is at hand. Mrs. C. I. Eastman.
CORN DODGERS.
Take three teacupfuls of corn-meal, one teaspoonful of salt, one table-
spoonful of sugar✪ Corn Dodgers, and pour on boiling water enough to wet it; then make
into small, flat cakes about one inch thick, and fry fifteen or twenty min-
utes in boiling fat. To be eaten very hoi. Fine. John Smith.
CORN CAKE.
Three teacupfuls of corn-meal, a generous pinch of salt, one table-
spoonful of sugar, one tablespoonful of butter; wet with boiling water and
then beat in one q^^. Spread one-half inch deep on buttered tins and
bake brown in a quick oven. Delicious. Mrs. John Smith.
R0A5T POTATOES.
"Of all the potatoes I ever tasted," said Stanley, on his return trom an
outing trip in Michigan, "roasted potatoes are the best." Let the coals get
red hot, cover with hot ashes and lay on one dozen or more (with jackets
on, but clean) as the needs of the company require, and over them put on
more ashes and then red-hot coals. Let stand twenty-five minutes. Take
out, wipe clean, crush open and drop in a speck of butter and sprinkle
with salt. Try them, I did and they are fine. Stanley's Mother.
BOOK II
''^Nor love, nor honor, wealth nor power
Can give the heart a cheerful hour
When health is lost. Be timely wise.
With health all taste of pleasure fliesJ'
WHAT HAKES HEALTH?
IT IS a matter of no small importance
that we well consider the subject-
how can we best supply the human family
with a food that will perform the mission ol
strengthening and at the same time the mis-
sion of enriching life?
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Presented as published in 1917. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
AI-modernized reading of the original text
Make the oven of flat stones placed together in the form of a square, about two and one-half feet each way; around the inside of this place other stones to form a bin. Fill this bin with small sticks. On these pile larger sticks, crosswise, and on top of these a layer of stones. Start the fire, allowing it to burn down until the stones which are on top settle into the coals. Clean out quickly all the cinders with a poker, then cover the stones with a green seaweed about one and one-half inches thick. Have ready the clams, spread them on top of the seaweed, then the vegetables, then the fish and a live lobster. Cover the whole with a piece of cotton cloth to keep out dirt; then cover with seaweed until no steam can escape. Bake thirty-five minutes. Remove the covering from one corner at a time only — so that the rest may keep hot — and all hands take hold and help themselves. J. Jefferson.
BEAN-BAKE.
(Outing Style.)
Build an oven in much the same way as for a clam-bake, except have It round and of a size to accommodate a large iron kettle in which the beans are to be baked. Prepare the coals as also for clam-bake and have ready five or six quarts of beans, as the case may be, cleaned, parboiled and seasoned with salt, pepper and molasses. In the center and on top of the beans, place two pounds, more or less, of good salt pork cross cut. Now^ put the kettle, with cover, containing the beans on the live coals, cover up with fresh grass and let cook fifteen hours. Have ready some
406 NOW AND WHAT TO COOK WHEN CAMPING OUT.
good warm steamed brown bread, delicious butter, and all fall to, for a feast is at hand. Mrs. C. I. Eastman.
CORN DODGERS.
Take three teacupfuls of corn-meal, one teaspoonful of salt, one tablespoonful of sugar, and pour on boiling water enough to wet it; then make into small, flat cakes about one inch thick, and fry fifteen or twenty minutes in boiling fat. To be eaten very hoi. Fine. John Smith.
CORN CAKE.
Three teacupfuls of corn-meal, a generous pinch of salt, one tablespoonful of sugar, one tablespoonful of butter; wet with boiling water and then beat in one q^^. Spread one-half inch deep on buttered tins and bake brown in a quick oven. Delicious. Mrs. John Smith.
R0A5T POTATOES.
"Of all the potatoes I ever tasted," said Stanley, on his return trom an outing trip in Michigan, "roasted potatoes are the best." Let the coals get red hot, cover with hot ashes and lay on one dozen or more (with jackets on, but clean) as the needs of the company require, and over them put on more ashes and then red-hot coals. Let stand twenty-five minutes. Take out, wipe clean, crush open and drop in a speck of butter and sprinkle with salt. Try them, I did and they are fine. Stanley's Mother.
BOOK II
''^Nor love, nor honor, wealth nor power Can give the heart a cheerful hour When health is lost. Be timely wise. With health all taste of pleasure fliesJ'
WHAT HAKES HEALTH?
IT IS a matter of no small importance that we well consider the subjecthow can we best supply the human family with a food that will perform the mission ol strengthening and at the same time the mission of enriching life?
Records on this page
Clam-BakeBean-Bake (Outing Style)Corn DodgersCorn Cake