Cooking

Cooking can be more fun that a barrel of monkeys if you plan properly.

Ideas and recipes found in the following pages have been retrieved from many scouting resources.

Apple Delight -- Core an apple just over half-way. Fill the hollow with cinnamon and marshmallows. Skewer it on a forked stick and hold over the coals until the marshmallow melts and the apple is easy to puncture.

Banana Hot Boat -- Cut a v-shaped wedge from the top of an unpeeled banana. Fill wedge with pieces of chocolate and marshmallow. Wrap in foil and place on coals for 8-10 minutes.

Chili Bag -- Cook up a pot of chili (homemade or canned). Buy individual size bags of Doritos or something similar. Cut an X on front of bag and open. Put chili on top of the chips, and shredded cheese. And you have portable lunch time nachos/tacos.

Corn -- Remove silk and soak ears in water. Lay on hot coals for about 8 minutes per side.

Dog in a blanket--Wrap a wiener in biscuit dough, skewer on a stick and bake over hot coals. Or slit the wiener and insert a piece of cheese before you wrap and cook it.

Egg in orange peel -- Scoop out the orange pulp and eat it, then grease the inside of the peel, crack an egg into it, and set on coals to cook.

Egg on skewer -- Prick a tiny hole in both ends of an egg and skewer it, but be careful not to go through the yolk. Place on a forked stick and hold over coals. Or, coat the egg with a stiff mud paste and cook covered in coals for 20 minutes.

Eggs in Paper Cup -- Fill a cup with water and drop in an egg , with or without the shell. Set the cup
into the coals.

Eggs and Bacon in a Paper Bag -- Put strips of bacon on the bottom of the bag, crack an egg or two on top of the bacon, fold over the top of the bag and hang it on a stick over hot coals.

Hang-um High Chicken -- Hang a whole chicken on a string from a tripod over a bed of hot coals. Fashion an aluminum foil umbrella over the chicken to reflect the heat.

Hot Rock Cooking -- Lay a flat, hot rock on coals and use it as a griddle to cook hamburger, eggs, steak, fish, bacon, or bread.

Kabob -- Skewer meat (or fish), potatoes and another vegetable (tomato, zucchini, mushrooms) on a stick. Cook over hot coals.

No Cook Fudge -- Try this one at a campfire while you tell a story, sing songs, etc. Have the boys pass it around to kneed so everyone gets a chance.

½ gallon ziplock bag

½ cups cocoa

3 ounces cream cheese

1 pound powdered sugar

3 tablespoons butter

1 teaspoon vanilla

Place all ingredients in the ziplock bag. Work out the air. Kneed 25-30 min. Nuts or peanut butter may be added at the end.

Onion Oven-- Cut an onion in half and scoop out all but the two outside layers. Crack an egg into each half, or fill with chopped, seasoned meat, cap, and place directly on hot coals.

Potato1 -- Cut out the center of a potato. Fill with hamburger and diced onion, or with butter and cheese. Plug the hole with some of the pieces you removed. Coat potato with 2 inches of thick mud and place in coals. Cook for about an hour.

Potato2 -- Slice off the top of a spud, hollow out a tunnel, and crack an egg into the hollow. Rub a bit of the egg white around the cut top, then put the “lid” back on the potato. Wrap in foil and bake in coals.

Stick Bread -- Press a wad of dough onto the end of a stick and bake over hot coals. Try cinnamon twists. Pat dough into a rectangle, spread with butter, cinnamon and brown sugar, and cut into 2” strips. Wrap strip around a green stick and toast over the coals.

Baggie Omelets -- Crack two eggs (no more) into a sandwich sized baggie (use a top brand). You can also add cheese, ham, mushrooms, pepper, and whatever else you use in your omelets. Close baggie and mix up the omelet by squeezing the baggie. Drop baggie into boiling water and boil about 4 minutes. Using a hot pad, lift baggie from water. Squeeze the omelet through the baggie. If no raw egg comes out of the middle the omelet is done. If it does, put back in water and boil until done.

FOIL COOKING

There are many ways to make a foil dinner. The short paragraph tells you how to make the foil package with cooking times. This is followed by many ideas on what to put into the foil packages.

Use two layers of light-weight, or one layer of heavy duty aluminum foil. Foil should be large enough to go around food and allow for crimping the edges in a tight seal. This will keep the juices and steam in. A good place to find heavy duty foil is a restaurant supply service. This wrap is know as the “drugstore” wrap.

Drugstore Wrap

Use heavy foil three times the width of the food. Fold over and roll up the leading edges. Then roll sides for a steam-proof seal. Dinners can be mark with a sharpie marker with the person’s name or have them fold edges in a certain way to help identify dinners.

You will need a shallow bed of glowing coals that will last the length of cooking time. A good brand of charcoal works well. Make sure the bed of coals is big enough so all the boys and adults can put their dinners on at the same time. You may want to have two beds based on the number of people. This will help prevent a few headaches.

Cooking Times:

Hamburger: 8-12 minutes,

Carrots: 15-20 minutes

Chicken pieces: 20-30 minutes

Whole Apples: 20-30 minutes

Hot dogs: 5-10 minutes

Sliced potatoes 10-15 minutes

Helpful Hints:

FOIL RECIPES

ALUMINUM EGGS

Sausage

Egg

Hash brown potatoes

Salt, pepper and spices to taste

Place potatoes, scrambled egg (doesn’t need to be cooked) sausage patty and spices in foil. Wrap securely. Place on coals for 15 minutes.

Campfire Sandwich

Chipped Beef

Cheese, sliced

Hamburger Buns

Place chipped beef and cheese on a bun. Wrap in aluminum foil. Place on coals about 5 minutes per side. Variations: a. You may use any type of meat. b. Add a slice of cheese, onions, relish or other favorite topping.