Outdoor Cooking with Reynolds Wrap – How to prepare tastier campfire meals without pots, pans and dishes, published in 1950 by the Reynolds Metals Company. Wow! This is one of my favorites from my collection and I really don’t know why it has taken me so long to review this baby! Apart from my vintage cookbook collection, for some reason I also have a collection of vintage Cub Scout and Boy Scout books… not sure why other than the cool art.

This mighty fine retro cookbook states that it is for: scouts, campers, picnickers, fisherman, and hunters… indeed it is! I’d probably add to that hobo’s, street people, and those folks with foil hats.

This baby is filled with awesome photos and mouth watering recipes that will help you make tastier campfire meals without pots, pans and dishes. I would also think this would be ideal for today’s modern, ultralight backpackers. One roll of aluminum foil (Reynolds of course) and leave the pots, pans, cup, plates, etc behind. Brilliant!

As you can see from the cover art, this is a mighty cool little cookbook. Inside you will find, boy scouts cooking in foil and making cups out of foil. You will also find manly men doing manly things. There are quite a few shots of men decked in plaid wool shirts with their rifles, or cooking up fine looking meals over the campfire. Then you have this…

Have you ever…? Well, thankfully there is text to go with this image otherwise I’d wonder what they were aiming at. I’ll leave it at that.

But seriously folks, this is a really cool cookbook which offers some serious recipes & ideas, as well as the great photos. You can learn to build a proper fire, to make breakfast, fish, meat, bread, and even “banana yum”! It even shows you how to cook a whole chicken over a campfire. (Now, did they bring the chicken with them, or were they hunting chickens? And if they were hunting chickens, I must assume a farmer was chasing them with his shotgun.) How can you pass up this awesome vintage cookbook?

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