Camp Fire cooking question

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lumpymike1

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I get to plan some activities for my daughters girl scout troop, and I wanted to do some camp fire cooking. I am would like to start with making bannock and cooking in to green sticks. I figure this will be a way to ease them into it. On that note, anyone have any good recipes for this? I'll be cooking it over a Weber charcoal fire (not going to start a campfire in a park). Just want to see what is out there. Later events will include making and cooking on hobo stoves, and a hopefully a wild foods walk with Chris Nygeres in the spring.

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Mike
 
The pioneer's bannock was a very simple bread .It contained flour, salt, maybe a little fat. and sourdough starter.Mix and knead the dough ,let it rise . Form it in to rods and wrap the rods around a stick ! Bake over your fire.Also on a stick you put your days catch ,fish, squirrel etc .That's the simplest. When you get more advanced you can cook in a dutch oven -anything from stew, bread, or pie ! .....My boy scout book taught you how to make things like pancakes from the basic ingredients but by the '60s it was 'take pancake mix, add water '.Teach the basics with that you can do it all.
 
I used to work for Big Brothers Big Sisters at their camp in Southern Ohio. We lived in rustic open air cabins, hiked all over the county and spent at least one night a week out in the woods on tarps or whatever the kids chose to make out of tarps.

I loved cooking over the fire in ways that made it easiest to clean and without packable things: Pots pans...

One of my favorites was to take oranges. I would cut the end off the oranges near one end leaving at least 2/3's of the orange and keeping the lid attached. I had the kids pick the middle out by hand or with a spoon. We then would pour biscuit mix into the orange peel and lay them in the coals. No fire just white hot coals. Once done you'll have an orange flavored biscuit to round out your fruit for breakfast and no pots to clean.

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Another campfire breakfast was the old Eggs in a paper bag.

Start with a regular paper lunch sack and break two eggs into it. Fold the top closed and poke a stick through the rolled bag. Use a short Y stick near the fire and use the long stick with the bag on the end to hang the eggs over the coals, you may need to add a rock to the other end to prop it over the coals. Again no flames. Eggs will cook in the bag and have enough liquid to keep the bag from catching fire.

Pack-in Pack-out or burn it is my moto. Th cool thing about using the paper sacks is that they can be burned and no one will accuse you of making the Hole in the Ozone bigger.

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