Camp Dinner with Trout and Eggs

Ingredients

• a dozen eggs
• a couple of quarts of potatoes
• a handful of salt
• trout

Method

1. 1

   Clean and wash the trout, wrap them in green leaves, and coat with mud.

2. 2

   Coat each egg thickly with mud.

3. 3

   Lay the fish and eggs in the ashes, cover with hot ashes, and build another fire over them.

4. 4

   Once done, remove the mud from the fish and eggs.

5. 5

   The potatoes should be cooked in the same manner.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from A bachelors cupboard (1906) by A. Lyman Phillips, page 16. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

trout to perfection, while the half-breeds of Canadian jungles, could show a New York chef a thing or two about cooking a partridge. A cowboy out on a round-up can concoct as toothsome a stew or " Mulligan " as was ever served up as ragout m a. Broadway restaurant or French '' Bouillon '* kitchen. A lonely prospector can show one a little about broil- ing bacon and frying flap-jacks, and when It comes to broiling a beefsteak or grilling a chop, a New York club man is generally a past master at the art, espe- 39 A BACHELOR'S CUPBOARD Around the Camp Fire cially if he is a member of the famous Beefsteak Club. And when a New Yorker gets into camp and wants to do the cooking — let him; he knows. THE in camp cooking, broiled fish, or roast VALUE OF birds, has been demonstrated long since BASTING |3y famous Maine guides. Billy Soule, for instance, broils his trout before a clear, brisk fire, with thin strips of bacon or salt pork fastened with tooth- picks so that the fat trying out will run continually down over the fish, basting it as it broils. In roasting a bird, pieces of bacon or pork are skewered on in the same fashion. A NOTED ^^^^^ ^^ ^^^" fishing the streams in the BOSTON vicinity of Colebrook, N. H., for several BON years, tells of a camp dinner cooked by him- VIVANT ggjf ^^^ comrades which is really worthy of repetition. *' One of the boys," he says, " went down to a farmhouse near the river at noon, after a morning's fishing, and for a quarter bought a dozen eggs and a couple of quarts of potatoes with a handful of salt

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