Recipes
This section is the opportunity for all you accomplished wilderness chefs to share your camping recipes. You're invited to submit your favourites for everyone to see. In order to best describe your culinary magic, please follow this format . . .
If you have an original photograph of the finished dish, send it along too. Email your recipes to AlgonquinAdventures.com. |
Breakfast Recipe Apple / Cranberry Sauce ... submitted by Blair Bishop ... "After the fresh food has run out, this light weight sauce makes both a great filler for crepes and a super topping for pancakes or toast."
- 1/3 lb dried apple rings per person. - 1/8 lb dried cranberries per person. Packing Cooking |
Meat Recipe Beef Jerky or "Jurky" ... submitted by Bill and Betty Lennips ... "Europeans have brine-cured their meat like this for centuries."
- 1 "eye of the round" (about 3 lbs. of fresh beef) Preparation (at home) Cooking |
Bread Recipe Baked Bread ... submitted by Bill and Betty Lennips ... "Ten days on the trail and you'll be wanting some freshly baked bread."Chuck in some raisins or dried cranberries and you'll be famous forever. Here's how it's done. Spend a warm and windless day in camp. Rebuild your firepit so it allows your baking pan to sit in the center with two inches space all around. Maintain a tight but hot fire creating lots of solid coals. Short but solid maple wood works best. The idea is to really saturate the rocks with heat. On a flat saucer, pour a quarter inch of warm untreated lake water. Throughout this process all water is untreated as sterilizing tablets may kill the yeast. Dissolve one third teaspoon of sugar in this and pour a half package of quick rise yeast on top. Too much sugar will kill the yeast. Cover with a damp cloth and set close to the fire .. about 100 degrees Fahrenheit is OK. Prepare your baking pan. We use our trusty six quart roasting pan as it allows the option of making buns. Maybe you prefer to carry a regular bread pan. Or perhaps you prefer the traditional "hobo bread" made in a topless quart container. Just make sure you grease the thing properly with margarine to keep the loaf from sticking. For a regular size loaf scoop two cups of flower into a warm bowl. Add some melted margarine, two 'three finger' pinches of salt, and two spoons of sugar. Mix well. Add your "started" yeast: it should now look like thick porridge, stir again and add warm water until lumpy. Sprinkle flower onto a flat surface. If your canoe is of strong construction, its bottom is good. Dump out your dough and knead "with vigor", adding water or flower as needed to create a dough that is smooth and just dry enough to keep from sticking to your hands. When done, plunk the thing into your baking pan (unless you plan to add fruit - then see next step). Push down nice and tight, and smear margarine on top. Cover with damp cloth and set in nice warm place to rise. Go play until the lump is twice it's original size and looks like a puffball. Be on guard for chipmunks. One kneading is all it gets unless you're a purist or want to add fruit. In that case let rise just in the bowl (covered, warm place) until the lump is about 1 1/2 it's original size. Re-knead adding the fruit, then place into the pan and the warm place. If you plan to use fruit ease up on the sugar because too much sweetness will kill the yeast. The resulting bread is quite coarse but the larger than normal cavities are great for extra butter and jam. When properly risen, place the pan in your 'oven'. Handle carefully because you can actually 'collapse' your creation by jolting it. Scrape all the coals out of the fire pit but keep them handy and alive. If you can't hold your bare hands inside the pit for more than three seconds it should be hot enough. Place three hot walnut size stones on the bottom of the pit to elevate the pan. Seal the entire pit as good as possible with stones, bark, etc.. Another variation of the oven is an open bottomed one made of birchbark (taken from fallen deadwood) placed above a layer of hot coals. With this type, the baking pan does not require a lid during the baking process. Heat radiation should do the rest. Go play again but check regularly for heat. Add coals to the oven if extra heat is needed. But prevent them from touching the pan. Check readiness by stabbing a wood sliver into it's center. When it comes out clean and dry it's done. Flip loaf from pan and cover with a damp cloth to keep the crust from getting too hard. Send up a smoke signal and we'll be along with the maple syrup. |
Dessert Recipe Reflector Oven Peach Cobbler ... submitted by Jay Maul . . preparation time 30 to 60 minutes . . makes cobbler for 5 to 8.
- 1 reflector oven. - 1 frying pan with removable or folding handle (approx 2" deep by 8" to 9" in diameter). - 1 large stirring/serving spoon. - 1 two-quart mixing pot. - 1 pair of "Hot-Pot-Tongs" a.k.a. a pair of pliers or channel lock pliers . Ingredients Directions Hints Variation |
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