1940s Recipes + Menus

Blacktail Buck Steaks

The Way We Cooked: Vintage Gourmet

June 1942

Cut three thick steaks (for each person) from the loin of a blacktail buck, freshly killed, bled, and drawn; and from a near-by creek bank, cut small willow twigs and peel them. Pin each three steaks together with these twigs, place them in a bed of coals previously prepared from sage brush roots, and let them alone until the two outside steaks are burned to a crisp and the coals have lost their glow. Then, when you pull them apart, take out the center piece which you will find cooked to perfection.



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