Cooking on the Campfire
Please share your favourite snacks/meals that have been cooked on a campfire.... I'm looking for inspiration ! Thanks :)
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A traditional dutch oven (the cast iron kind with stubby little feet and a rather big rim around the outside of the lid) makes for a lot more campfire cooking flexibility. You basically put a few coals underneath, somewhat more on top (generally), and can bake most anything although obviously things that aren't especially sensitive to precise temperature and time constraints are easier. I've made a tasty pineapple upside down cake in a dutch oven, with the only difficulty being that it wasn't quite level so the pineapple part tended to slide off the cake when served upside-down. Potatoes and roasts and baked beans and so forth are super easy in a dutch oven, and biscuits or rolls or bread not too hard.
Campfire donuts/crullers are fun and pretty easy. Basically take a bit of biscuit dough, wrap it (in a thin spiral layer) around a stick or camp fork, and cook it rather like a hot dog. Moderate temperature for a relatively long time works better than high heat and quick cooking, which leaves the middle doughy often. Once cooked, roll in a bit of butter and then cinnamon sugar and eat. Canned biscuits, the kind that you thwock the side of the can to open, work pretty well for this if you don't feel like mixing something up.
Campfire donuts/crullers are fun and pretty easy. Basically take a bit of biscuit dough, wrap it (in a thin spiral layer) around a stick or camp fork, and cook it rather like a hot dog. Moderate temperature for a relatively long time works better than high heat and quick cooking, which leaves the middle doughy often. Once cooked, roll in a bit of butter and then cinnamon sugar and eat. Canned biscuits, the kind that you thwock the side of the can to open, work pretty well for this if you don't feel like mixing something up.
