Clam - Lobster Bake

Total Time: 7 hrs 55 mins Preparation Time: 1 hr 15 mins Cook Time: 6 hrs 40 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 8
• 8 baking potatoes or 8 sweet potatoes
• 8 ears corn
• 8 onions
• 8 chicken halves
• 8 live lobsters
• 4 -8 dozen clams

Recipe

• 1 prepare your favorite clam chowder as an appetizer.
• 2 serve clambake with plenty of melted butter, lemons, and watermelon.
• 3 " detailed directions below.
• 4 dig a bow-shaped pit 3 ft. in diameter and 1.5 feet deep in the center.
• 5 using crisscross pattern, line with double thickness of heavy duty aluminum foil, then a layer of dry rocks about the size of grapefruit. note: wet rocks can explode. build a bonfire on top of rocks in the pit. use firewood and kindling.
• 6 let the fire burn 1.5 to 2 hours or until burned down and rocks are hot. note: do not use charcoal.
• 7 soak corn-on-the-cob (with silk removed) and mixed greens in cold water while fire is burning.
• 8 wash clams and set aside. refrigerate lobster on ice. peel onions; remove ends. oil potatoes.
• 9 once fire has burned down, work quickly to prevent rocks from losing heat. tamp down embers.
• 10 on top of rocks, layer pit in the following order: half of the greens, strips of wet cheesecloth, potatoes, corn, onions, chicken halves, live lobsters and clams.
• 11 cover food with remaining wet cheesecloth, then greens.
• 12 cover pit with heavy duty aluminum foil.
• 13 crimp all sides to the edges of aluminum foil used to line the pit. let food steam cook 40 to 60 minutes.
• 14 remove foods immediately when done. cooking times will vary depending on temperature of rocks.
• 15 peek at clams after 40 minutes. if they are open and lobsters are bright red, dinner is ready.
• 16 serve with melted butter and lemon.