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Grandpappy's Campfire Survival Cookbook

Copyright © February 2, 2023 by Robert Wayne Atkins, P.E.
All Rights Reserved.

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ISBN: 978-1737068068
Type of Book: Paperback
Book Size: 6 inches by 9 inches
Number of Pages: 646
Number of Black and White Pictures: 85
Number of Sketches and Illustrations: 112
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Book Description on Amazon.com

When we were young some of us may have had daydreams of growing up and becoming an explorer and traveling deep into a wilderness area and living off the land. However, none of us had daydreams about growing up and one day becoming a homeless person. But life sometimes unfolds in unexpected ways and one day we may be confronted with a future that we would never have believed could happen to our family. The purpose of this book is to make wilderness survival not only feasible but also enjoyable to the extent possible.

This book does not discuss basic survival skills such as how to build a temporary shelter. Instead this book discusses the advantages and disadvantages of all the different types of campfires, and the advantages and disadvantages of a variety of different ways to cook over a campfire. It clearly explains how to hunt, trap, and fish, and how to field dress what you kill, and how to prepare what you kill so that it becomes part of a delicious and healthy meal. This book also discusses the things you should take with you into the wilderness so that you can be successful at cooking meals using a campfire.

Approximately one-third of this book is devoted to campfire skills. Approximately two-thirds of this book contains more than 270 basic simple recipes that can be prepared at a campfire, including edible wild plants, wild game, wild birds, fresh fish, fresh bread, vegetables, side dishes, desserts, coffee substitutes, and homemade wine. If you should ever need to survive in the wilderness then depending on the internet to answer all your questions will probably not be a good strategy. Instead you should take this book with you into the wilderness so that you will have a complete reference manual on what to do and how to do it.

The information in this book would allow you to avoid the pain of learning how to survive by making lots and lots of mistakes until you learn the best way to do something. The information in this book will help you to do things right the first time, and every time after that. Food will probably be scarce at a survival campsite and the information in this cookbook will allow you to prepare the food that you do have available in a variety of delicious ways so that you could enjoy your meals instead of wondering what the next meal will taste like, and whether or not you will gag when you try to eat it.

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Preface to
Grandpappy's Campfire Survival Cookbook

To successfully cook something delicious over a campfire a person needs three things: a campfire, a good recipe, and something to cook. All the wild game animal, game bird, and fresh fish cookbooks that I own have 95% of their content devoted to recipes. Not one book in my entire collection discusses how to build a campfire that is suitable for cooking food. And all of my cookbooks assume that you already have something to cook and that you don’t need any suggestions on how to acquire some tasty wild animals, game birds, or fresh fish. And they also assume that the meat has already been cleaned and butchered.

This cookbook is different. This cookbook begins by discussing everything a person needs to know about how to start a fire, and how to build a fire that is perfect for cooking. This cookbook then explains how to acquire wild game animals by hunting with a rifle, and with a bow and arrows, and how to trap wild game, and how to fish. Then this book explains how to clean and butcher the animals, the birds, and the fish to get them ready for cooking. The last two-thirds of this cookbook contains a wide assortment of campfire recipes for wild game animals, game birds, waterfowl, and fresh fish. Many of these recipes only require salt and black pepper. However, a few optional basic spices, such as onion powder or garlic powder, are also recommended for many of the recipes. This cookbook also includes recipes for side dishes, breads, and desserts that can be easily cooked using a campfire.

This cookbook was written for someone who wants to know how to acquire food from nature, how to correctly and safely process that food, how to build a campfire that will cook that food properly, and how to season and cook the food to make it delicious.

Respectfully,
Robert Wayne Atkins, P.E. (Grandpappy)
February 2, 2023

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Table of Contents

Chapter		Page
	Strategies for Campfire Cooking:
1	Introduction to Campfire Survival Cooking	1
2	The Most Common Campfire Mistakes	5
3	The Importance of Fire	7
4	Fire Safety	11
5	Selecting a Good Spot to Build a Campfire	15
6	Fire Basics	19
7	Fire Ignition Methods	21
8	Tinder	41
9	Kindling and Firewood	43
10	Different Ways to Build a Fire	49
11	How to Start a Fire in the Rain or the Snow	57
12	Basic Campfire Cooking Equipment	61
13	Cast Iron Cookware	81
14	Water	89
15	Basic Hunting Equipment and a Few Hunting Suggestions	93
16	Hunting with a Rifle	105
17	Hunting with a Bow and Arrows	121
18	How to Use Traps and Snares	137
19	Fishing Techniques	147
20	How to Field Dress Wild Game, Game Birds, and Fish	165
21	Cold Storage of Food at a Survival Campsite	187
22	How to Render Animal Fat	191
23	Meat Jerky and Pemmican	195
24	Drying (Dehydrating) Meat, Fish, Fruits, and Vegetables	203
25	Underground Storage of Root Vegetables	215
	Campfire Recipes:
26	Information that Applies to all Campfire Survival Recipes	217
27	Recommended Herbs, Spices, Staples, and Seeds	227
28	Abbreviations, Substitutions, and Homemade Ingredients	235
29	Edible Wild Plants and Wild Plants to Avoid	247
30	Cattails	275
31	Wild Honey	289
32	Edible Wild Nuts	295
33	Edible Wild Critters (Frogs, Turtles, Crabs, and More)	311
34	Bone Soup	321
35	Basic Simple Recipes for Wild Game Meat	329
36	Bear Information, Processing, and Recipes	341
37	Beaver Information, Processing, and Recipes	351
38	Boar (Wild Feral Pig) Information, Processing, Recipes	359
39	Deer, Elk, Pronghorn, Caribou, Moose Processing, Recipes	377
40	Groundhog Information, Processing, and Recipes	389
41	Opossum Information, Processing, and Recipes	393
42	Rabbit Information, Processing, and Recipes	397
43	Raccoon Information, Processing, and Recipes	405
44	Squirrel Information, Processing, and Recipes	415
45	Snake Information, Processing, and Recipes	423
46	Other Wild Animal and Reptile Recipes	431
47	Dove & Pigeon (Squab) Information, Processing, Recipes	441
48	Duck Information, Processing, and Recipes	445
49	Grouse Information, Processing, and Recipes	449
50	Partridge Information, Processing, and Recipes	455
51	Pheasant Information, Processing, and Recipes	457
52	Quail Information, Processing, and Recipes	463
53	Turkey Information, Processing, and Recipes	467
54	Other Wild Game Birds and Waterfowl Recipes	471
55	Fish Information, Processing, and Recipes	479
56	Dry Corn Kernels, Oats, Wheat Berries, White Rice	491
57	Bread Recipes	505
58	One-Pot Recipes	515
59	Vegetables	519
60	Soups, Salads, and Side Dishes	527
61	Desserts	533
62	Homemade Coffee and Homemade Wine	547
	Appendix A: How to Grow Vegetables from Seed	561
	Appendix B: How to Grow Your Own Vegetable Seeds	571
	Appendix C: How to Grow Berries, Grapes, and Fruits	593
	Appendix D: How to Be a Successful Campsite Gardener	603
	Appendix E: USDA Nutritional Data on Different Foods	607
	Appendix F: Survival Campsite or a Vacation Campsite	623
	Appendix G: Short-Term versus Long-Term Survival	627
	Index	629
	Afterword	635
	About the Author	636

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