In your post to another freeper you got that right tet68. Unfortunately the only thing you'll find in a bar is overpriced beer and losers.
Can you do hoe cakes? Or is that what you are referring to as ash cakes?
I could take my Dutch oven, a bow or gun, (knife of course)and a fishing pole and live fine forever in the woods.
Nothing tastes as good as food cooked over an open fire. I have a firepit outside in my yard and cook there often, especially in the fall and winter.
Ash cakes are what we make when we are primitive hunting.
Red wheat flour, mixed with water(not much) and pinched out
into flats , a good hardwood fire, then rake out a nice
place on the coals and put the cakes on the embers,
turn once, don't burn, will keep for several days, eat
with venison jerky. Not gourmet, but will keep you alive
in the hard times.
Have you been striped bass fishing before?
How true. Unfortunately, where I live we tend to have to watch out for bears and other wild animals even close to town when we do that, especially in the late fall or early spring. Ten to fifteen miles out and greater you need to add fox and mountain lions to the list of possible food-thieves.