To: Poet who wrote (59729 ) 4/22/2001 7:10:10 AM From: Crocodile Respond to When we were at our cottage in the summer, we had a "bonfire" area down on the rocky part of the beach. Whenever we were clearing brush, or had a dead tree to cut down, we would pile the wood in that area and have small bonfires at least a couple of nights a week. We would butter some potatoes and wrap them in foil and put them in around the logs where they would cook. They would invariably get a bit burned and end up with some ash on them, but they were really nice. My Mom would sometimes mix up flour to make bannock which we would cook on a large stick over the fire. My younger brothers cooked hotdogs over the fire. They would often cook them until they went on fire, just the way marshmallows do. They seemed to like them that way. We were lucky because we had a very good supply of small green ash saplings growing along a section of the beach and they make the best sticks for cooking over the fire. It used to be funny to see all of these different pieces of food stuck on ash sticks and left leaned against a log so that they could cook to the exact amount of "doneness".
