Kephart’s Personal Recipe Book and Technique Manual for Camp Kitchen

This deluxe unabridged reprint Legacy Edition of Horace Kephart’s Camp Cookery is a must-have for the camp kitchen, detailing dozens of recipes for outdoorsers, hunters, camp cooks, and anyone who wants a taste of the trail at home. Originally published in 1910, the author of the classic title The Book of Camping and Woodcraft presents readers with recipes and camp kitchen techniques that remain fully relevant for today’s modern campsite or hunting camp!

This comprehensive cookbook for the camp and cabin includes information on food and vittles for even the most beginner camp cooks. Topics include provisioning and buying food for your camp kitchen, utensils and equipment you’ll need for your kitchen, how to cook with fire and the different types of cooking fires, how to dress and keep game and fish for the camp, as well as dozens of recipes for meat, game, fish, shellfish, cured meats, eggs, bread, vegetables, soups, beverages, and desserts.

This vintage book includes timeless knowledge about camp life and the most important role of the camp kitchen to keep everyone well fed! Although this book represents thought from a former time, it also reveals much about the rich history of camping and the wilderness, and many of the tips, tricks, and discussions are still relevant for study today!

A part of the Library of American Outdoor Classics: Volume 24

This Doublebit Legacy Edition reprint of Camp Cookery is professionally restored and presented from the original source, including inspiration from the book’s original cover, with the highest degree of fidelity possible. Readers can enjoy this Legacy Edition for generations to come and learn from its timeless knowledge.

About the Doublebit Press Legacy Editions

Sometimes we need to remember our history to move forward. Sometimes, remembering our heritage is just fun or inspirational. With technology playing a major role in everyday life, sometimes we need to take a step back in time to find those basic building blocks used for gaining mastery - the things that we have luckily not completely lost and has been recorded in books over the last two centuries. These skills aren’t forgotten, they’ve just been shelved. It’s time to unshelve them once again and reclaim the lost knowledge of self-sufficiency!

As a part of the Doublebit Press Legacy Edition Collection, this unabridged volume is reprinted in the exact form as it was presented in the original publication. Both important and minor details have equally both been accounted for by our publishing staff, down to the cover, font, layout, and images. It is the goal of Doublebit Legacy Edition series to preserve outdoors heritage, but also be cherished as collectible pieces, worthy of collection in any handcrafter’s or outdoorsperson’s library and that can be passed to future generations.