Can't let this topic die!!!! Many years ago elk hunting in Idaho, 2 brothers, a great friend and I had hunted very hard for about 10 days and were completely warn out. Woke up one morning to about 12" and still snowing. Decided to "camp in". No heated tent. Outdoor cooking fire with rock reflector back and forked stick tripod. After breakfast we sat around resting and washing socks. About lunch time I broke out a package of DINNER YEAST ROLLS I had bought in Missoula Safeway. Brother Dallas opened up the reflector oven and Charlie and George spit fire wood into splinter size. Soon the dough was rising in a double boiler. Someone brought out the elk tenderloin. I baked the DINNER ROLLS in the reflector oven and fried the tenderloin in my 10" cast iron. O BOY. Afterward I made fried apple pies from dried fruit. Hope this ain't too long.
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That sounds like a good camp, sidelock. Brings back good memories of a camp a friend and I made years ago in NE Nevada, near the Jarbidge Wilderness Area on a mule deer hunt. I used to fool around with sourdough baking a fair bit, and I wondered if I could bake sourdough rolls at 11,000 feet. I brought along some starter and bread fixings, gave it a try. Not easy, not the best I ever baked, but when eaten with hot roasted mule deer ribs fresh off the buck they weren't bad. Instead of your fried pies we had the last of the rolls with boysenberry jam.
It was a fall camp, chilly and not cold, no snow like yours, but having a warm spot for the dough to rise was my main problem. I'd be interested to hear how you used the double boiler to do that.
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It was a fall camp, chilly and not cold, no snow like yours, but having a warm spot for the dough to rise was my main problem. I'd be interested to hear how you used the double boiler to do that.
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Stew with smoked moose meat, a bear roast and multiple bottles of shrub. Toboggans are wonderful!
Then there was that time we made grilled-cheese sandwiches....
Then there was that time we made grilled-cheese sandwiches....
I had one of those 12 pc.? 9pc.? or what ever aluminum cook kits. The large pot held warm water and a smaller one inside held the dough. Let it rise,beat down, repeat about 3 times and bake. My grandma baked the best yeast rolls I ever ate----- mine were 2nd. best. I could tell stories like this all night. Boy have I had some fun----- and just thinking about it is fun.
It's cold and wet and you bundled in wool, and your eating a better meal and enjoying it more then any place on earth.
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Years back, before I was married, I carried a 5 gallon pretzel tin in the trunk of my car. In it was everything I could need for an impromtu picnic or outdoor party. Matches, utensils, paper towels, paper plates, a one burner coleman stove, a couple small aluminum cook pots and some dried soup. hot cocoa packets and some other items. (remember space food sticks?) Well one very snowey February Saturday, a co-ed bunch of us college kids decide to have a beach bonfire party at a nearby lake. We stopped at a store and stocked up. One of the gals was a home economics major and she bought some ingredients to make what she called camp cake. I never paid much attention to how she made it. It was sort of a thick goo she molded around a green stick and held over the fire. Darn that stuff was good. She also made barbequed beef liver that was unbelievably tasty. Some of the group did not even know what meat it was., just good. Just as a foot note, we had a few too many, sat around the fire too long and got snowed in. Stayed the night in a three sided picnic shelter that had a stone fireplace at the closed end.
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zimmerstutzen said:
Well played, Sir :thumbsup:
Funny how you can never get the truck unstuck as night is coming on and the girls are cold, but next morning you "somehow" get the truck out 1st try :wink:
Years and years ago as a senior boy scout on a camping trip in eastern VA we needed something and stopped at a small family owned country store right on the Chesapeake bay. The owners young daughter waited on us and asked if we would like to have some free oysters. WYYY SHURE. Her dad pulled a small boat off shore a short distance and tonged about 1/2 bushel really nice ones. We built a hot fire and roasted them with snow pouring down (snow unusual there) in the shell. I think about that every time I enjoy oysters----- I love em.
