Camp and Rendezvous Foods?

[zimmerstutzen]

One year at the Eastern, we kind of went overboard with food. We had some rather extensive menus that would not have fit in with trekking etc, but might have fit with settlement feasts.

a. Whole salmon on the spit, wild rice, roast asparagus

b.roast Canada goose on the spit with chestnuts, roast sweet corn and green beans, apples baked inside the goose.

c. Ham, yams (in the coals) and steamed green beans

d. Big cast iron kettle of beef stew, fresh sour dough bread from the dutch oven.

e. Clams, mussels, and flounder, roast sweet corn, biscuits, lots of butter and carrots (One of our group drove in from southern Delaware)



I remember, a husband and wife strolled by our camp and saw the goose on the spit and the hubby complained that they were eating "beans and weenies"

 

[Black Hand]

Whether on the trail or in camp, there is little excuse to eat poorly - even when cooking with PC/HC foods.

 

[tenngun]

Eating poor and simple are two different things. The hc stuff stuck in a haversack can make a tastie meal, rashers and run with puddings in a haste for instance. Onion soup, hoe cakes, dried fish balls, ect can all be good eating. Try old receipies at home first, find stuff you like. Roasted goose with Apple stuffing may not fit in your haversack, but it is right for a bigger camp. Hc is good eat'n.
Townsend's savory the past vids offers a whole thanksgiving meal I think I'll be making this thanksgiving.

 

[satx78247]

Fwiw, I don't eat junk like beans & weenies at home, so I see no reason to eat that awful stuff in camp.
(Make mine chicken-fried steak, BBQ, a good stew, "eggs over medium" with ham, biscuits & cream gravy & I'm "good to go".)

just my OPINION, satx

 

[Obi-Wan Cannoli]

In camp: Butter, garlic salt, and onions are the big three for cooking just about anything. Add tabasco sauce for fish.

In the field: Sandwich, nutter butters, and DADS root beer barrels.

I've never been to a rendezvous, but plan on it in the next couple of years...I will be the guy with the large bulk food store bag of krusteaz instant pancake mix and syrup.

 

[tenngun]

Last night I came across Townsends twelfth night cake. I was thinking about it while making my breakfast this afternoon(I work nights), and thought about fruit cake.
The last one I made was 2009. My wife, step children, grand children and in-laws wont eat it. My folks loved it, and I love it. Now I haven't been making it just for my self these last years. How ever a fruit cake made in spring, washed in rum or brandy for a year is ambrosia of the gods. I am hear to tell you that contrary to myth there is more then one fruit cake.
Now a block of fruit cake is just a little heavier then lead, but it has about a thousand calories per bite. I might make one to take trecking this fall. It would be a compact food.
Now I'm the only person I know that likes fruit cake,any one else here?

 

[Black Hand]

There is good fruitcake, bad fruitcake and the stuff one buys from the store....

 

[sidelock]

I'm in. My wife makes a great one and my Grandma took orders for Christmas cakes for many years. wife also makes fruitcake cookies with black walnuts which will disappear right in front of your eyes. (we get black walnuts by mail from the hills of VA.)

 

[Obi-Wan Cannoli]

That sounds delicious! I plan on creating a fruitcake recipe post as soon as I am able to come up with a title that has enough pun in it. :grin:

 

[coloradoclyde]

I tried to patent Fruitcake Donuts.....But the name Fruit Loops was already taken..... :grin:

 

[Loyalist Dave]

There is good fruitcake, bad fruitcake and the stuff one buys from the store....

TEACH!

I was never a fan of what my family called traditional fruit cake.

Then one Christmas I tried Blond Fruit Cake.
It was delightful.

Since we're no longer sending cakes to distant corners of the earth by ship..., the rum soaked version of fruitcake isn't necessary...though some expect that taste.

LD

 

[tenngun]

I always made my fruit cake in February or March. The rum wasn't to ship it but part of the aging process. It's grape juice vs wine, cabbage vs saurkrute ect.it is an squired taste, I hated until I was about 20.