Camp Biscuits

[Carbon 6]

These charts previously linked didn't help? https://www.kingarthurflour.com/learn/high-altitude-baking.html#cakes
Well here's CSU's book on the topic of cooking all sorts of stuff at atltitude. https://extension.colostate.edu/top...ty-health/high-altitude-food-preparation-p41/
Here is a rather scientific book on baking at high altitude https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112019445920;view=1up;seq=9
Here's an old book developed in Denver CO (av elevation 5400 ft.) Doesn't give the why, just all sorts of recipes https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo1.ark:/13960/t8v98qc7w;view=1up;seq=22;size=150

LD

How you work the biscuit dough can affect the final product dramatically. Over working the dough will will create too much gluten for a quick bread and it will be more like hardtack.

People who live at very high elevations like Tibet, cook most of their foods in a pressure cooker.

 

[Juice Jaws]

Nothing wrong with it, briquettes are convenient, easy and predictable in heat output and burn time. Using briquettes makes your dutch oven as reliable as your house oven.

Does she use a chimney starter ?

Yes

 

[Carbon 6]

Me too.

 

[TexiKan]

Not deviating from the thread but I am curious if any here have made Pan de Campo (Camp bread) which is the official bread of Texas? Here is one video link but there are many different ways to make it in a dutch oven. Not quite the traditional biscuits as we know it but another alternative.

 

[Carbon 6]

Looks like a bannock to me.

 

[45man]

I suppose I got off topic some but the dutch oven was always with us. So were cast iron frying pans. I suspect some encounters were from the smells out of the dutch oven. No I can't prove a thing but my word is good. Stories around a camp should be told but I admit I never made biscuits in mine but I did make sourdough bread. I am still making the bread but I cheat and use a bread making machine.
Don't be harsh and add your stories too. All can get off some and as long as we are friends, who cares. Since no answer to the OP has told the story anyway, How many coals under the oven and how many on top or the time needed per piece of coal. Altitude has water boiling different but heat is heat in the oven to bake. So would you just add more coals on top or bottom? How many? I still believe the dutch oven with legs needs a hole for the best to trap heat.

 

[45man]

It is like my electric smoker. recipe calls for a low and slow but the wood will not burn to make smoke since it turns off the coils.

 

[45man]

Looks like a bannock to me.

Yes, it does not rise but she uses baking soda. Indian bread was also so good as it does not rise either. Indian bread is thinner then bannock and can have corn meal in it.

 

[Carbon 6]

Yes, it does not rise but she uses baking soda. Indian bread was also so good as it does not rise either. Indian bread is thinner then bannock and can have corn meal in it.

It did not rise because she "docked" it (poked it full of holes)

 

[crazybill]

What was that WWII movie about POWs in the Pacific, where they were eating maggots? I believe it was based on a true story.

King Rat. Based on the book of the same name by James Clavell.I believe they were eating roaches or beetles for the protien.
-Bill-

 

[45man]

I have a cast iron stomach and see some of you the same. Brothers that love the same stuff. When the 17 year cicadas were out I hunted them to eat.
If stuff does not cook, I wish I could help but it will take longer depending on where you are. But what is going on while you sit and watch the pot?
I remember school and working for a living when the clock never moved a second but now a day is just a second. Share the memories since they will never come again. Don't be strict or ever say a bad word about anyone. Off topic is great and it can lead to a solution some times. The mountain men and chuck wagons are gone. Maybe you need to find how biscuits get done Another drink of Jack before lifting the lid.

 

[Zonie]

How did we get from the original posters question, "what is your method and recipe for camp biscuits in a Dutch oven. My elk camp biscuits are lacking." to baking bread, eating maggots and cockroaches?

Don't answer. When a topic gets this far off topic, it's time to close it.