What's Cookin'?
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BrandonGuest
That’s a great idea, J!
A while back, an Australian friend told me about some bread they make at campfires called damper bread. It seems really easy to make, and my friend said it was really good.
Here’s a link to an article on how to make it:
BrandonGuest
PJKeymaster
Echo5CharlieGuest
I’m a horrible cook in the best of times, I can use all the primitive cooking tips I can get. If we are long term, we are in one of two locations and both lend themselves to cook pits or bbq grill type fire setups.
JGuest
I grew up camping and the one immutable rule was cook, clean or bring. I hate doing dishes so I learned to cook over a fire good enough that others didnt mind the hassle of dishes!
Clarity JaneGuest
A wire shopping basket makes a nice little stove to place over a small camp fire. Saw this on a documentary about tramps (hobos).
PJKeymaster
In today’s age with freeze dried meals all you have to do is boil water, pour in bag and presto!
JGuest
….if you want to live off of freeze dried foods. They will eventuially run out, Also, freeze dried foods are not known for their great taste. There are a number of small things that can be done to greatly improve their palatability. This is one of the aims of this thread, to share the tricks we have all learned to make things taste a bit better than the packaging they come in 🙂
PJKeymaster
I agree, having tried many varieties I’d say freeze dried is good but not great. Even if you have 1 to 2 years of freeze dried it will eventually run out…although one cannot argue with the simplicity of the prep.
Capt. Mac.Guest
S A L T !
with enough salt and Louisiana hot sauce I can eat any (well almost) thing.
My concern about the damper bread is the butter. In a real SHTF world butter will be very hard to come by unless you have a cow. And if you have a cow do you milk it or eat it?
Capt. Mac.
Pandemonium Airlines
“We are going to Saudi Arabia where the local time is 200 years behind the rest of the world”
Echo5CharlieGuest
Milk it, mate it, kill the calf.
ClarityJaneGuest
Anyone know how to disguise smoke from a campfire?
Echo5CharlieGuest
I don’t. I can tell you dry woods burn cleaner, wet woods give off more gray smoke as the moisture burns off.
ClarityJaneGuest
Echo5Charlie:
Thanks for the tip. I saw a documentary about the French Resistance in World War Two and they had a method of channelling the smoke underground and….something about pipes…and holes…and that’s all I can remember!
I really should start keeping notes on these things!
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