Planking a Fish
By John L. Peyton

You pop up split logs and build a fire in front of them.  When the surface of the wood is scorching hot you fasten the fillets to it with nails or wooden pegs.  I’ve never found any way to cook fish that will make it taste any better.  It doesn’t take a lot of equipment to cook good things in the woods.  We used to travel with just a tin pail and a jackknife for cooking gear.  You can bake biscuit dough twisted around a stick or roast a duck or a partridge speared on a forked stick so that the bird won’t keep swiveling around.  You can mix your biscuit dough by pouring a carefully estimated amount of water right into the top of the flour bag. In the woods, it’s better to figure out a technique to do the job rather than carry special equipment for it.  You get over more ground and have more fun.

 

 

 

 

 

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Planking a Fish
By John L. Peyton

You pop up split logs and build a fire in front of them.  When the surface of the wood is scorching hot you fasten the fillets to it with nails or wooden pegs.  I’ve never found any way to cook fish that will make it taste any better.  It doesn’t take a lot of equipment to cook good things in the woods.  We used to travel with just a tin pail and a jackknife for cooking gear.  You can bake biscuit dough twisted around a stick or roast a duck or a partridge speared on a forked stick so that the bird won’t keep swiveling around.  You can mix your biscuit dough by pouring a carefully estimated amount of water right into the top of the flour bag. In the woods, it’s better to figure out a technique to do the job rather than carry special equipment for it.  You get over more ground and have more fun.

 

 

 

 

 

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