The Altar Camp Fire-Place
The advantage of the altar fire and the matasiso is that the cook does not have to get the backache over the fire while he cooks. All of these ovens and fire-places are suitable for more or less permanent camps, but it is not worth while to build these ovens and altar fire-places for quick and short camps.
Cooking Without Pots, Pans or Stoves
It is proper and right in treating camp cooking that we should begin with the most primitive methods. For when one has no cooking utensils except those fashioned from the material at hand, he must, in order to prepare appetizing food, display a real knowledge of woodcraft.
Primitive Cooking Utensils
Therefore, start by spearing the meat on a green twig of sweet birch, or some similar wood, and toast it before the fire or pinch the meat between the split ends of a twig ([Fig. 133]) or better still