Scout Skills: Campfire Clam Bake

Build a large criss-cross fire over two feet high. Distribute stones in the pile of wood. When the fire burns down, cover the hot stones with damp sea weed (not too wet) – then lay on the clams – cover the entire pile with more sea weed and let them steam for some twenty minutes for little necks and twice that long for round clams. — The Revised Handbook for Boys First Edition, 1943