breakfast tinfoil meals? Ideas needed!

[AnneinMpls]

Thanks everyone

Oh yes, *I* remember jungle breakfasts! One of our patrols is doing an early morning hike so that's basically what they'll be packing along.

I ran across a recipe for gingerbread in orange peel shells - now that one sounds like it would be helped by the orange flavor rather than harmed

 

I could also use more tips on the biscuits - we had let the fire burn down to coals, but the biscuits turned out more smoked and gummy than cooked/toasted. (What I mean to say is, they turned to gummy blobs covered with black soot/ash. Not appetizing!) I would bet the tinfoil over the stick would help them cook through.

 

Thanks again!

Anne in Mpls

[Lisabob]

We did the biscuits a few weeks ago with some of our younger boys. We used low flames (not just coals - that would probably take forever) and we found some nice, sturdy sticks w/a Y in it to use as supports. Put the support into the ground a little ways away from the fire and balance your cooking stick w/ twist on that. (if you can't find a stick like that, you could just hold it above the flames but then you can't cook more than one/person at a time!) I had the best luck with it being about 6 inches above the flame. You have to turn it from time to time as well. And make it REALLY thin, or you get those nasty blobs of dough. Done like this, it took longer to cook properly than I had expected/remembered (from my youth camping days). But the results were much better.

 

 

[ScoutNut]

Lots of good ideas here -

 

http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/5307/toc.html

 

Some foil recipies -

 

http://macscouter.com/Cooking/FoilCook.pdf

http://www.djmorton.demon.co.uk/scouting/meals/foil.htm

 

I have tasted the cupcake in an orange & it is not bad. The trick is to pick a flavor that is complemented by the orange. Something like a spice, carrot or apple mix.