Camping Recipes
Dried beans, bacon, flour and tea.
That's what most early settlers had to exist on in the 1800s or
even the early 1900s. It doesn't give you a great deal of scope
for exciting camping recipes.
Yet people 'made do' and created bread, cakes, damper, Johnny
cakes, scones, flapjacks. All kinds of baked and fried foods
made with just flour, a little salt and baking powder. Eggs
helped, but they were a luxury. So was fresh milk a luxury
unless you happened to own your own milch cow.
What you will put into your own favorite camping recipes will
depend entirely on whether you are planning a hurried overnight
or weekend camp, or whether you will be part of a standing camp
of a week or more. That's the only way you'll have enough time
to cook the more fancy camping recipes.
Who are you cooking for? Your camping recipes for a bunch of
kids will be totally different from your camping recipes for a
group of sophisticated adults.
Basically, your kids are going to be happy with pancakes, hot
dogs, burgers, sandwiches, fruit juice and cola. Easy camping
recipes to throw together, and if you're using paper plates,
pretty darn easy to clean up afterwards also.
But if you want camping recipes that are a bit more
sophisticated, bring along a cast iron Dutch Oven and you'll be
able to wow your friends with baked foods, roasts, stews,
real baked beans, chili, you name it.
One word to the wise, however. Unless you're already an
extremely talented cook, test your cooking equipment and your
camping recipes out in your backyard before you do it for real.
Then you won't have an audience to laugh at your mistakes!
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