Conference moira::parenting_v3

    G'day from Downunder,
    
    
    Ahhh yes
    
    Take apples, preferably cooking (green) apples, core and wash( keep
    whole with a tunnel through the middle. You can buy a tool for doing
    this at the hardware store).
    
    Place in a flameproof dish and fill the centres with raisins and
    sultanas mixed with brown sugar and cinnamon, if desired. Place in oven
    and bake formaybe 3/4 hour....   With custard ***YUUMMMEEEE ***
    
    
    Problem is an oven in camp... It's easy to make one from clay and a
    biscuit tin, or you can use a dutch oven
    
    
    There are a bunch of recipes in:
    
    ABACUS::SURVIVAL
    BTOQA::HIKING
    CACHE::SCOUTING
    
    
    Derek
     

    Derek, is there a camping notes file?
    
    --bonnie

    I spend a _lot_ of time camping a few years ago, and found a great book
    called "The One Burner Cook Book" (or maybe The One Pot Cook Book, I
    forget).  It's full of recipes that are designed to be made in one pot. 
    We used a small Coleman backpacker stove, which only has room for one
    pot, so this cookbook was perfect.

    G'day,
     As far as I can tell, no not directly. The HIKING conference has most
    info, followed by scouts. Survival talks alot about favourite guns for
    survival hunting (of the hunter, not huntee ;-| )
    
    
    derek

    
    
    There is a camping notesfile, GENRAL::RV    KEYPAD 7 TO ADD TO YUR
    LIST:
    
    
    note 655
    
    ed
    

    An RV is NOT camping!
    
    --bonnie

    I'll second that (.6).  You may be able to go on vacation in a
    Ridiculous Vehicle, but you can't go camping.

    Bruce, Bonnie,  each to their own opinion.  I've seen people get upset
    before, but over a matter like this.   ;-)
    
    An RV does give a family a chance to get out.  And the food we cook
    over the campfire tastes the same as the food you may cook over the 
    campfire.  Just becase it was stored in a refrigerator that guarentees
    that it won't spoil adn give food posioning.....
    This was a note on camping cooking, wasn't it.  do we need a note on
    tent camping, backwoods cabins, backpacking, pop-up camping..ad
    nasheun,...  nah, just go over to a friendly atmosphere in RV notefile.
    
    I'll delete my previous reply if your really going to get upset about
    it!
    ed
    

    Sorry, Ed, I'm not upset . . . you'll have to pick another topic
    for that. :) 
    
    It's a rathole, but it was based on a childhood in which I did
    both backpacking camping with friends or with my daughter and RV
    camping with my family in our pickup camper. 
    
    I found the two experiences to have practically nothing in common
    except for the fact that I wasn't sleeping at home.  I enjoyed the
    RV stuff, don't get me wrong about that, but when I go camping,
    I'm looking to leave behind some of the baggage of modern living. 
    It kind of spoils it when the people in the big motorhome next
    door are sitting on their porch listening to Mozart and reading by
    a generator-powered pole lamp (actual experience).
    
    I haven't seen very many RV people cooking over a campfire.  They
    cook inside on their Little Chef gas range.  
    
    --bonnie

    bonnie,  we use the microwave.  There's no excape from thoughless
    people, and someone who'd use their generator ranks high on the list
    of thoughtless people.
    
    Accually, we do do a lot of cooking outside.  It simply tastes better.
    
    	a couple of my favorites:
    
    	o allow the kids to go shopping and get a can of their favorite
    	  soup.  Over the fire, you put everyone's soup in the pot. 
    	  flavor combinations.  One ground rule for us- no fishy soups.
    
    	o bone soup- start with a base of maccaroni (sp?).  let everyone
    	  add their favoite ingredients, meats, vegitables.
    
    ed
    

    re: .10
    
    I like the soup idea -- no problem about keeping it fresh with
    just a cooler, either.  And no doubt it would work equally well 
    with envelopes of dry soup on a backpacking trip, too. 
    
    Our family camping standby was pan-grilled steak (or hamburgers)
    and fried potatoes.  We'd take turns stirring the sliced potatoes
    in the cast-iron skillet over the fire.  After the potatoes were
    done, we'd add a bit of oil and fry the steak in the same pan.
    
    We also make what my mother called Campfire Spam -- cook macaroni,
    drain, then add a can of stewed tomatoes and a can of Spam,
    chopped up into bite-sized pieces, and heat through.
    
    --bonnie

    I've camp quite a bit in the past (prior to motherhood) and for
    breakfast we would have boiled eggs.  Big deal you say....well,
    this is how we cooked them, take a paper cup, one with plastic
    coating on it, put egg in cup, put enough water in it and place
    it next to the fire - within 5 minutes it starts boiling and cooks
    up in about 10 minutes (depending on how you like your egg) - and
    the cup never catchs fire nor melts.
    
    Another favorite is cooking on flat rocks - take your burgers out
    of your pack, throw a nice flat rock in your campfire, go for a
    30-45 minute walk, come back, take rock out of fire, throw a litte
    water on it and throw your burger on it.  Cooks it right up, and
    tastes great.  On second thought keep burger in cooler, racoons
    would probably get it when you go on your hike.
    
    I usually pack very light on the dishs/pans when we camp.  Just
    one pot for boiling veggies.  

    In re: .9   bonnie - that's an unusual experience, the people outside
    with Mozart and reading matter.  Had the TV and AC in the RV broken
    down?
    
    When I was young, we especially liked canoe camping.  There's nothing
    like finding a site on a small island to keep you away from pesky RVs. 
    But happiness was getting past the first portage - then you didn't even
    have any motorboats on the same lake with you.  This was largely in the
    Gunflint Trail area of northern Minnesota (sigh).  We managed to eat
    fine for 8 to 10 days at a stretch, with no cooler or ice, and even
    though nobody in the family was much interested in fishing.
    
    		- Bruce

    We used to just pack a three-day supply of peanut butter
    sandwiches and koolaid . . . 
    
    --bonnie

    I forgot about the cast iron fry pan, but thats an absolute neccessity!
    
    One other thing to try if you haveing, is to put corn in its husks,
    into aluminin foil and throw it into the fire and hot coals.  best
    tasting corn you could have.  Also, something you can make in advance
    is a hobo pack:
    
    one potato sliced, one small onion, optional green peppers, small
    amount of bacon greese [use margerine if no bacon greese], or use
    a stip of bacon,  double wrap in aluminin foil and throw into the
    hot coals.  it tastes great, requires little work.  we put them
    together the day before the trip, when we get there and set up, it
    requires little work on the part of the cook.  There are no dishes
    to clean up as you can eat out of the foil.
    Make one pack per person.
    
    ed [even rVers eat]
    
    

One we used to use at Guide Camp was to take a banana in its skin and split
down one side with a sharp knife. Push some lumps of chocolate into the gap,
wrap well with foil and then put into the hot ashes for 10-15 mins. It is a bit
gooey and messy to eat (and very hot !) but who cares when you're camping !

Alison

    Frozen waffles (you can just keep them in your cooler), thawed
    strawberries, and whipped cream.  Toast waffles on camp stove toaster
    ($1.49 at Spag's), and put berries and cream on top... yummy.

To Derek (.1):

 >  Place in a flameproof dish and fill the centres with raisins and
 >  sultanas mixed with brown sugar and cinnamon, if desired. Place in oven
 >  and bake formaybe 3/4 hour....   With custard ***YUUMMMEEEE ***
    
This recipe sounds great, from the parts I know about, but what is a sultana?

My (American English) dictionary says "the wife, mother, sister, or daughter of
a sultan", so that didn't help!

Thanks for the info,

Jane

    A sultana is a type of raisin, larger than the usual kind.
    
    		Steve

    G'day,
    
     And you can use currants or mincemeat (as in Christmas time pies) too.
    
     Enjoy
    
    Or here's a variation...
    
    take slices of buttered bread, place butter up in a pile with currants
    or raisins (or sultanas ;-) )and apple slices or apricots or...(dried
    fruit) and sugar (if desired) between each slice. Top off with one
    slice butter down - sort of like a humungeous sandwich. Now place in a
    bowl or basin = build it there is less messy! - and pour on fruit juice
    or milk then place a weight on top and allow the juice/milk to soak in
    for overnight... then place in oven and bake until golden brown again
    munch with custard....
    
    
    or... take a small flat plate of metal say 12-18" square. Place on fire
    and when warm, clean with water and then melt lard or cooking oil on
    it. Take flour water and an egg or two mixed up in a creamy mixture and
    ladle carefully onto plate. When cooked turn it over and cook for a
    while Hurrah flapjacks/pancakes/ eat with sugar or jam or a squeeze of
    lemon....
    
    
    or take same mixture as above, but somewhat thicker = a dough, hollow
    out a recess and place aple and cinnamon in the hollow, then cover with
    dough so apple etc is in the middle. Wrap in lightly greased tinfoil
    and place in the embers of the fire until a knife pressed into it comes
    out clean.... Woopee apple cinnamon damper!!! hyper triple yumm!
    
    or mix c,r & s (again!) into the dough = spotted dog damper!! or grate
    cheese and peel and slice onion finely and mix that in = cheese and
    onion damper and ham bits or bacon bits too! Savoury dampers Oh what
    delights camping has to offer...
    
    my word, I can hardly wait to go again....
    
    
    derek
    

    	Fry up some bacon.  Save the grease.  Mix french toast batter
    	in a zip-lock bag.  Cut holes approx 3-inch in diameter in the 
    	center of your french toast bread.  (An empty soup or tuna can
    	works freat for this.)  Cook the french toast (with the holes)
    	in bacon grease.  It doesn't taste like camping unless you cook
    	in bacon grease!  :^)  When you flip the toast to cook the second
    	side, crack one egg into each hole.  Flip one last time to get
    	the second side of the fried egg.  Fried eggs fry faster than
    	french toast, so be sure to do one side of the toast before putting
    	in the extra egg.
    
    	You don't need many of these to make a filling breakfast.
    
    	Joe Oppelt

    re: .21
    
    Eggs in a bonnet!  My FAVORITE!!!!
    
    Drenched with syrup, of course. 
    
    --bonnie

    Try PAGODA::COOKS.
    
    Type DIR/TITLE=CAMP* and you will will get lots of notes on cooking
    and camping.
    
    Kristen

    I'm surprised!  Has everyone forgotten about S'mores!  Don't forget it
    HAS to be Hershey's chocolate bars and Campfire Marshmallows (toasted
    on a greeen stick of course)!  Must be properly eaten sitting around the 
    campfire on your "situpon" and telling scarey ghost stories!
    
    Forget the "newfangled" microwave ones, they're absolutely AWFUL!!
    
    Lyn
    (still a Girl Scout at Heart)
    

Don't forget the graham crackers underneath the chocolate and marshmello.