This section is from the book "The Book Of Camp-Lore And Woodcraft", by Dan Beard. Also available from Amazon: The Book of Camp-Lore and Woodcraft.
How To Make Ash Cake, Pone, Corn Dodgers, Flapjacks, Johnny-Cake, Biscuits And Doughgod Making Dutch Ovens Venison
Banquets In The Open
How To Cook Beaver Tail, Porcupines And Muskrats Camp Stews, Brunswick Stews And Burgoos
WHEN America gave Indian corn to the world she gave it a priceless gift full of condensed pep. Corn in its various forms is a wonderful food power; with a long, narrow buckskin bag of nocake, or rock-a-hominy, as parched cracked corn was called, swung upon his back, an Indian or a white man could traverse the continent independent of game and never suffer hunger. George Washington, George Rodger Clark, Boone, Kenton, Crockett, and Carson all knew the sustaining value of parched corn.
 
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