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Clam-bake

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Clam-bake

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Create a square oven with flat stones on a flat surface about 2.5 feet square.

  2. Surround the stones with additional stones to form a bin.

  3. Fill the oven with small kindlings gathered from the beach.

  4. Layer larger sticks crosswise on top of the kindlings.

  5. Cover the top with stones about the size of your hands.

  6. Start the fire and let it burn down until the stones settle into the oven.

  7. Quickly clean out all cinders with a poker or stick to prevent smoke from spoiling the bake.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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