Troop 22 Whitman, MA Backpacking Cookbook Troop 22 Whitman, MA Patrol Cookbook Table of Contents Breakfast .............................................................................................................. 1 Bacon & Eggs.................................................................................................................................... 1 Bagels ................................................................................................................................................ 1 Bagged Eggs...................................................................................................................................... 1 Cold Cereal........................................................................................................................................ 1 Hot Cereal.......................................................................................................................................... 1 Pancakes ............................................................................................................................................ 1 Lunch & Dinner..................................................................................................... 2 Alpine Spaghetti................................................................................................................................ 2 Beef Hash with Gravy ....................................................................................................................... 2 Beef Stroganoff (2 servings) ............................................................................................................. 2 Chicken Almandine (3 servings)....................................................................................................... 2 Chicken and Gravy............................................................................................................................ 3 Chinese Dinner.................................................................................................................................. 3 Hot Chicken Soup ............................................................................................................................. 3 Meaty Mac & Cheese........................................................................................................................ 3 Portable Chili..................................................................................................................................... 3 Spaghetti and Dogs............................................................................................................................ 4 Steak Dinner ...................................................................................................................................... 4 Turkey Tetrazini ................................................................................................................................ 4 Snacks.................................................................................................................. 5 Baked Campfire Apples .................................................................................................................... 5 Can Cobbler....................................................................................................................................... 5 GORP ................................................................................................................................................ 5 Gorp Balls.......................................................................................................................................... 5 Popcorn.............................................................................................................................................. 5 Preparations ......................................................................................................... 6 Dried Beef ......................................................................................................................................... 6 Dried Apples...................................................................................................................................... 6 Page i Troop 22 Whitman, MA Patrol Cookbook Troop 22 Whitman, MA Patrol Cookbook Breakfast Preparations Bacon & Eggs Take 2 strips of bacon, cut in half, and Dried Beef Trim fat from meat. Slice meat into ¼ • Bacon (2 slices) pre-cook at home until it's almost done • 2 lbs Lean meat (round or inch strips, slicing with grain of meat. • Freeze-dried scrambled egg (still a bit limp). Wrap in plastic wrap flank steak) Combine water, salt, black pepper, and securely. Bacon prepared this way will vinegar in deep pot and bring to boil. • Bagel (pre-buttered) • 2 C Cold water keep for a few days and can be easily Divide meat into 4 lots. Boil each lot • Dried fruit • ½ C Salt reheated in his frying pan. for 5 minutes. Meat will be gray when • ½ Tbl Black pepper • Hot cocoa done. Press out juice with rolling pin Bagels Bagels are the preferred bread for • ¼ C Vinegar and paper towels. Preheat oven to • Bagel with jelly hikers. They taste good, don't crush, 150º. Place meat strips on metal oven • Tang and won't dry out appreciably. racks. Keep oven door slightly ajar. • Hot cocoa Meat will dry in 1 ½ hours. Meat • Dried Fruit should crack but not be brittle when done. If it bends but does not break, Bagged Eggs Before the hike, crack eggs in a bowl, cook little longer. Store in bag. Dried • Grated cheese then pour into Ziploc bag. Add meat should keep about 10 weeks. • Chopped ham ingredients as desired. Close Ziploc bag. Squish to mix well, freeze. Boil Dried Apples Use good apples, bad apples with • Pre-cooked bacon water in pot. Add bags to boiling • 5 lb Apples bruises or those that are not ripe make • Salsa water to cook. Remove with tongs • 2-3 C Pineapple juice bad dried apples. Skin (optional) and • Tabasco sauce when eggs are cooked. core the apples. Cut the fruit into thin • Sliced mushrooms slices (⅛"). Soak the apples in lemon Cold Cereal or pineapple juice for at least 1 minute to prevent browning. In an oven, at the • Dry cereal (pre-sugared) lowest setting with the door ajar until • Powdered milk the apples are leathery but pliable • Hot cocoa (optional - keep drying until like • Dried fruit potato chips). 1 pound of apples makes Hot Cereal Heat water for oatmeal and cocoa. 2 ½ ounces after skinning, coring, and • Instant oatmeal Prepare oatmeal and add dried fruit drying. I usually make dried apples at • Tang and sugar. the same time as making dried pineapple, that way I get the juice as I • Hot cocoa get the pineapples. • Dried Fruit • Sugar Pancakes Buy the pancake mix that only needs • Pancakes to add water, and put just enough for 2 • Bacon or 3 pancakes in a baggie. • Syrup/butter • Hot cocoa Page 1 Page 6 Troop 22 Whitman, MA Patrol Cookbook Troop 22 Whitman, MA Patrol Cookbook Snacks Lunch & Dinner Baked Campfire Apples Core upper part of apple leaving Alpine Spaghetti Bring a pot of water to boil and add • 1 Apple bottom half intact. Fill center with • 8 oz Spaghetti spaghetti. Boil for 10 minutes and • Brown Sugar raisins, nuts and candies. Add brown • 1 Tbl Olive Oil drain. Add olive oil, toss, then add rest sugar to taste. Double wrap apple in of ingredients and toss again until • Raisins, Nuts and/or Red Hot • 1 C Parmesan Cheese grated aluminum foil and place on hot coals thoroughly mixed. Cinnamon Candies • 3 tsp Basil for 20 minutes. • Heavy Aluminum Foil • 1 Tbl Parsley Flakes Can Cobbler Fill each can ¾ full, with the pie • 1 Tbl Garlic • 1 Can Pie Filling filling. Sprinkle about an inch of the Beef Hash with Gravy Boil 2 C water in a pot. Add the dried cake mix in each can. Put a pad of • 1 Yellow Cake Mix • 8 oz Beef cooked beef and onion, cover, and simmer for butter on top of the cake mix. Cover • Margarine • 1 Tbl Dry Milk 2 to 3 min. Remove from the heat, add with aluminum foil. Put the cans in the the potatoes and dried milk; stir; cover • Empty 15 oz cans • 2 Tbl Dried Onions coals around the edge of the campfire, and let sit for a few minutes. Heat 3 to • ½ C Mashed Potato Flakes not directly near flames. Be sure to 4 tablespoons butter or margarine in a turn the can often to insure equal • 4 Tbl Margarine frying pan. Fry the "hash" over cooking. • 1 pkg Instant Gravy Mix medium heat until browned on one GORP Mix everything together. Place in side. Rinse out the pot that the hash was in and boil 1 cup water in it. Add • ⅓ C each Raisins, apples, Ziploc bag. the instant gravy and cook 1 min. Turn apricots, dates and coconut the hash. Pour the gravy over the top. • ½ C Sesame seeds Brown the side that is down. • ⅓ C Walnuts • 2 C Peanuts Beef Stroganoff (2 servings) Mix 1 ½ cups water and ½ cup powder milk. In pot, add milk to sour • 1 C Chocolate chips • ⅓ C Instant powder milk cream mix and Stroganoff mix. Heat • 1 C M&Ms • 1 pkg Sour cream mix until sauce thickens. Place noodles, • 1 pkg Stroganoff mix Gorp Balls Mix dry ingredients. For the "glue", beef, salt, and 3 cups of water in • 2 C Egg noodles Same as for GORP plus: use 1 cup chocolate chips, ⅓ C honey second pot. Bring to boil and simmer • ½ C Dried beef • ⅓ C Honey and ½ C peanut butter. Shape into 15 minutes. Stir in sauce, add • 2 tsp Salt • ½ C Peanut butter balls; nice snack for hiking trips or as margarine and serve. an after-school snack. Chicken Almandine (3 servings) Place chicken and water in pot, bring Popcorn In center of 18" x 18"