The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-08-31
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| yourself Ia the woods or On the waves you
! always discover that you have an appetite
ALONGSIDE of which POUR home desire for
| food Is ss the mouse Is TO this mountain
| Eat and eat and eat yee again IL the rule
during oAs's outdoor times, even Though
| this be bot for day. 0arsantoan stores
| Of food, therefore, Ire necessary b keep a
party In gsed humor, and he hath the
| greater honor who Is the most noble cook
! Much may be done with the frying pan In
skiIlful hands, nor are the results to be OBJ
| tanned from the pot hanging on the tripod
| or set in the Goals to be desptsed.
| Probably the pasthod OF cooking which
was discovered by Adam and Eve before
| the birth Of Cain. or which was the first
adopted by the immediate descendants of
| the anthropeid apes, was roasting with
| fire. There are many methods of doing
| this, which resolve themselves naturally
| into two great classss-the right and the
wrong The latoar may be ignored, as al
most any one has brains enough TO discover
| it for himself The former, however, il
worth describing, il only for the delieieus
results which may be arrived at through
| it. While the general process Ia the same
in all cases, the dstAils vary with the food
And the first rule to remember is that the
meal viii be far more satisfactory II pre-
pared ovsr Goals than it will If fre-that
is, fsme-be the source Of the heat. Flame
argues smoke, and smoke implies creosote
and other oils Of wood which sre not pleas
ant to the taste, while generous bed Of
Goals, crimsoning and pahng with the
| heat within them, cooks the meat or fish
slowly and perfectly. If the things to be
Cd IL
switch stuck in the ground, with the
bird impaled on the other end, will serve
In any event do not cook over the Goals.
Raise bank Of them against stone or a
pile of dirt. and cook in front or at one
side. Ii you have q plate let it catch the
drippings. and if you have none then a
piece of bark will serve your turn. Be
careful, however, not TO let tho bark catch
fire.
If the article to be cooked be large, such
as a fish or steak, planking it is as good
method rs any In default of a plank the
fat side OF q split log answers perfectly
Fastsn your fish or steak to the wood with
nails if you have them, or pegs if nothing
else is at hand, place it in mont of your
bank Of Goals, nearly upright, and then
wait patiently for the cooking 1t cooks
slowly, and you must therefore give it all
the time it needs. 1t is always good plan
70 have q second fire, from which fresh
Goals may be drawn as they are needed
Many people there are who do not know
how to plank shad or other fish, and per-
haps few directions may not be out of
place. Secure plank of oak not less than
two inches thick, and Of course of sufficient
width and length Split the fish down the
back, remove the back bone and nail the
fish to the plank, skin side in. Then open
the front Of the stove, get a lot Of bright
Goals together, swab the fish with melted
butter, stand the plank up so the 6Sh will
toast, butter it lightly from time TO time
and serve it on the plank. II it is properly
cooked you will never forget your first ex-
perience of the dish. But this is discur-
Sus.
To cook large joints by one of these camp
fires is merely an obvious extension of the
methods already described. Drive two
poles into the ground and lash to them a
cross pole. Rake togethse Large bank OF
Goals on one side, or n you like you can
make up two banks. Hang the joint
by piece Of string, or a twisted bark
cord to the cross pole and catch the
drippings in plate or dish of bark. IL
you have but one bank Of Goals you can
put up 3 bark screen on tie other side of
the meat TO prevent waste of the heat. In
this case, however, you must contipually
turn the joint, OF you VIII have it half
cooked and half raw.
These methods of toasting, hroiling or
roaSting-for they are notifications of all
thrce-are certainly primitive enough, nor
to carry them out do you require any other
tool than the aI. But baking may be done
in the woods, with nothing except what
you can find anywhere. Find small
stream, and cast along the bank until you
come to a tiny waterfall Wade in and,
bending down, grope in the bottom Of
the pool just below the fall The
chances are you shall find dense
blue clay, which you can dig up in humps
with your sheath knife. With the ak or a
small stone pound this out into a rather
thin sheet little under half an inch in
thickness. If the clay is Of the night kind
there viii ne no stones il 1t, but il ther5
should lie pick them out. Having cleaned
your fish lay some twigs OF the black birch
in il and then cover it with the clay, being
careful to pinch the edges Of the fold close
together. Prepare as many fish as you
care to eat In this way and bury the bun
dies in the Goals. When they are done,
which will be within an hour, break them
open, and eating, thank me for having
taught you the method.
This method Of cooking may be applied
TO anything having skin. IL you wish 70
so treat meat, sach As steaks, chops or
roasts, you must first wrap it in something
which will prevent a contact with the clay,
For this purpose ordinary paper which has
been well CREASED viii answer perfectly.
But in the woods paper cannot be easily
found. and one has 10 hunt up gu bstitute.
This 10 found in tbs tirst paper birch tree
You See and the inner sheets of bark are
better than the outer. Wrap the meat
carefully tie It up and then put the clay
around it. OF course you will give the
bundle time to cook PPOportiODed TO she
amount of meat in it During the process
Of cooking the clay will crack ope1, but
this viii do no harm The most ira portant
part of this method L preparing the clay,
which should be hammered and worked
until it is tough like putty. The shses
should be even in thickness
One Of the most primitive methods Of
cooking known 70 nsH IL steamiag The
"oEenS'' in the South Sea IsiAnds, the
pits" IN Terra del Fuego, the ''kitahsns"
in Alaska, ali depend on steam for the
heat In this country We have the same
thing in ths feAsts 50 DEAR 70 the memory
Of thoss who have enjoyed them under the
name Of elAnbakea The principle upon
which . elaubake IL run u that when
dsnp seaweed Is sfOugst in contact with
hot stoaes steam Is gsuArssed, and this
sin coax she feoA- Lake . Shailew pit in
dry sand OF sol ard Has # With stones
ab0ut the size a. your Rad. On these build
a GOOD Are. whish shor3 suTn for nos less