New England Clambake Is Simple And Tasty
If you enjoy cooking sea food such as lobster meat, mussels, crabs and clams in the traditional method, you will absolutely love clambake on the beach. Up and down the coast of New England, you will find festive occasions featuring this type of cooking. This clambake ritual consists of placing smooth stones into the center of a pit dug in the sand.
Wood is lit on fire, arranged on a group of rocks, and allowed to burn until it becomes ash. These ashes are cast aside, whereupon the heated rocks actually cook the food. It's important to ensure that the fire burns out quickly---preferably after the desired temperature has been achieved. Thuen, the stones are swept clean of ashes, and arranged so that the bottom is insulated.
The kelp and other marine plants can be located around the waves and placed over the stones. Typical items then placed over that include corn in its natural casing, tubers, scallions and seafood in the shell. Finally, and additional covering of seaweed is placed over everything. A canvas doused in salt water is then set over the entire pit, which encloses the high temperatures. After an afternoon or evening of beach fun, you and your friends will now have a one of a kind treat!
It takes an entire day to prepare and cook a traditional New England clambake. Some people love to do it themselves. Other prefer to hire a caterer to do the work. Sometimes the feast is baked in a large pot. This is often necessary in places where fires are not allowed on the beach.
There are many variations of the New England clambake like cooking it in metal containers which is known as a New England Clam Boil. New England clambake is an older method of cooking food in a rock-lined sand pit, prevalent in New England long before the English empire was found in America.
A lobster clambake can be cooked in your yard in a metal can, or in a steamer in your kitchen. Otherwise hire a caterer who may cook it in cooking vessels which are heated by burning. Even you will be able to buy already cooked clambake from a store.
If you enjoy cooking seafood such as lobster meat, mussels, crabs and clams in the traditional method, you will absolutely love clambake on the beach. It takes an entire day to do the cooking for a New England clambake. Some people think its fun to undertake the cooking themselves. Most cooks use a large pot for clambake cooking, because many areas will not allow people to build fires on the beaches. The clambake is an older version in which food is cooked in a sand pit lined with rocks. A lobster clambake can be cooked in your yard in a metal can, or in a steamer in your kitchen
Published December 22nd, 2007
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