As I mentioned before, a friend of mine found a fantastically bad BBQ cookbook called The Art of Barbecue and Outdoor Cooking circa 1958.
Perpetual Carouse proudly presents:
Hobo Special For One*
1/2 pound ground beef
1/4 tsp. salt
pepper
1 tbps. chopped parsley
1 tsp. chopped onion
1 small carrot, cut into strips
2 small onions, peeled
3 slices potato, cut 1/2 inch thick
10 olives
1/2 ear of corn
salt and pepper to taste
You'll need a one-pound coffee can with lid.
Combine beef, salt, pepper, parsley and onion. Shape meat into a patty the size of the bottom of the coffee can. Place a meat patty in each can. Layer with carrot strips, onions, potato slices, olives, and corn. Salt and pepper to taste. Cover tightly with coffee can lid. Nestle cans in hot coals, and cook for one hour, or until vegetables are tender.
*I'm paraphrasing the cooking instructions, because, well, retyping them was a pain. And there's that whole copyright law thing, too. Plus they weren't really all that technical anyway. The ingredients, however, are straight out of the book.
