What do you take to camp

[Alden]

Have you pickled Elk tongue? I have not...

I have not either but I suppose I have tongued pickles.

 

[Alden]

Arm, it a common practice amongst backpackers to bring a few Tylenol 4 which are strong codeine tablets. Besides as an emergency analgesic small doses remedy diarrhea which can be serious as well.

However, unless it is your camp cooking that is causing these issues I think that is...

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[Sean Gadhar]

What one Historical item or meal would you bring?

Herding cats here

 

[coloradoclyde]

Never was much good at essays.. multiple choice is better.... :grin:


Don't take cats...new data suggests they may cause schizophrenia and Alzheimer's.

If your hunting.... take a muzzleloader.....
Take your homemade oilskin tarp...that impressed me....
A deck of cards is nice when it's raining....they have to be historical they have kings and such on them... :grin:
It might help if we knew more about the trip... :idunno:

 

[Sean Gadhar]

Never was much good at essays.. multiple choice is better.... :grin:


Don't take cats...new data suggests they may cause schizophrenia and Alzheimer's.

If your hunting.... take a muzzleloader.....
Take your homemade oilskin tarp...that impressed me....
A deck of cards is nice when it's raining....they have to be historical they have kings and such on them... :grin:
It might help if we knew more about the trip... :idunno:

:idunno: You were on about the right track with,

I start all my fires with flint and steel when camping...
It tends to impress the gas can, old tire and torch crowd.. :grin:

But I was thinking more in terms of food/meals. Just to bring a bit of the Traditional Muzzleloader along when I hunt this muzzle loader season with two inline hunters. I'm always trying to find a "Luke" to bring over to the "Dark Side" :haha:

I'll have wool clothes & bedding, a rock lock, round ball, real black powder, etc. etc.

Just thinking about what in the way of Traditional food I could add to the mix,

I might make up a snack pack.
Ships biscuits, parch corn, jerked elk, & dried apples. They might not eat it at camp, but sitting waiting for dawn to break, most guys will nibble on anything they can find in their pack :wink: (that's how I can tell you that three year old elk jerky & dry pears can still be eaten)

 

[coloradoclyde]

Sounds like you got a pretty good handle on it.... :thumbsup:

Inline hunters... :shocked2: I'd put peanut butter on their boot heels...skin that one pilgrim and I'll bring ya another.. :rotf:

 

[Alden]

Hey Sean, can you get delivery? Domino's!? Thin crust Honolulu Hawaiian comes with with bacon, ham, pineapple (for 1601Phil), and roasted red pepper -- it's really nice, and I guess it's traditional.

 

[pargent]

If I were out to impress and was limited to one item then it would have to be my cook , :hmm: but which one to bring :hmm:

 

[sidelock]

Nope, but sounds good. All my elk tongue (and heart) has been eaten in camp miles by horse back from the road to home. (BTW I was always the camp cook)

 

[Bear Rider]

Dried beef, dried southwestern mixed vegetables, and a beef bouillon cube. Salsa leather optional. Throw it all in a pot with cold water. By the time it comes to a boil the ingredients should be pretty well rehydrated. Simmer until the meat is tender.

 

[Loyalist Dave]

Well one meal, ok food...I'd bring dry cured bacon. All sorts of different dishes are made with it, or it is added to....

one item is my round lidded Dutch oven. I can bake, or boil, and I can invert the lid and use the lid as a skillet while cooking in the pot.

I also have a "Jerry Oven"..., called that because it's Jerry-rigged from an iron pot and uses a steel skillet as a lid, which holds coals well so works great for baking, and like the rounded Dutch Oven I mentioned, you can use the skillet to fry up stuff while using the lower portion for boiling.

LD

 

[tenngun]

Dry smoked bacon is real handy, sour krut stays good in camp and an old food. Krut and bacon is a good meal. If straight krut is a little strong for your taste potatoes or turnips or onions can be boiled with the bacon and it's pretty good. Bacon and green pea soup is light to carry and hc and still tasty. Salt pork, or salt beef, using hard tack and dry potatoes make an old tasty stew who's name escapes me at this time.

 

[Rifleman1776]

On day outings (not overnight) I'll carry jerky, parched corn, mix of raisins and salted (shelled) peanuts and some hard candy. I've never done an overnight trek. But at ronny I bring steak, steak, steak, pork chops, eggs, bacon, coffee, potatoes....and sumptin' else :hmm: Oh! Steak. Actually, if there is venison or other game in freezer, some of that.

 

[coloradoclyde]

I also have a "Jerry Oven"..., called that because it's Jerry-rigged from an iron pot and uses a steel skillet as a lid, which holds coals well so works great for baking, and like the rounded Dutch Oven I mentioned, you can use the skillet to fry up stuff while using the lower portion for boiling.

Having trouble forming a mental picture...but it sounds neat...
Do you have a photo by chance?

 

[Alden]

Wow -- you must really have the place going crazy from the smell. I could LIVE in a Burger King parking lot off of the air when they're busy and the wind is blowing that char-broiled goodness smoke my way.

 

[Sean Gadhar]

I think steak is hard to do in camp. You almost need two fires, :idunno: well I do. I want a nice low fire for most of my cooking, and screaming hot to cook the beef steak on. You can cook the steak 1st....but it won't do to let it sit about, so I end up eating doughy biscuits and half cooked onions & mushrooms because when the steak is ready so are they dag-nab it!!

 

[coloradoclyde]

I think steak is hard to do in camp. You almost need two fires, :idunno: well I do. I want a nice low fire for most of my cooking, and screaming hot to cook the beef steak on. You can cook the steak 1st....but it won't do to let it sit about, so I end up eating doughy biscuits and half cooked onions & mushrooms because when the steak is ready so are they dag-nab it!!

I know just what you're talking about Sean....
Takes a lot of practice and finesse to get everything just right..
Sometimes it takes an assistant...and sometimes just good planning.... :thumbsup:

 

[sidelock]

What is PBR?

 

[coloradoclyde]

Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer...PBR..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Pabst

 

[KingofDerby]

I want a nice low fire for most of my cooking, and screaming hot to cook the beef steak on.

The way to make a fire cool while still having it screaming hot is to move your cook pot. Adjust the distance from the fire to adjust your heat. That way, you can cook the stuff as slow as you want, while keeping the fire hot for when your ready to cook your steak.