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Building a fire. Cooking dough twists, apples, and bananas

Resources

Food
Apples
Bananas
Chocolate buttons
Brown sugar
Raisins


To make about 12 twists if wanted, ingredients:
500g Self raising flour
3 Tablespoons of sugar
300-500ml of water
Optional: Jam/Chocolate spread


Food prep
Apple corer
Knives (for bananas so don’t need to be very sharp)
Water (to wash hands and apples)
Spoons (for raisin mix)
Foil
Cutting boards
Washing up liquid
Hand soap
Long handled metal tongs (apples/bananas)
Measuring Jug (dough twists)
Mixing bowl (dough twists)
Skewers (dough twists)


Fires
Wood/charcoal for BBQ
Matches
Flint and steel
Vaseline
Cotton wool
BBQs (1 per team)
Fire blanket
Bucket of water

Instructions

Prepare and light a BBQ, cook a piece of stuffed fruit in the embers, dough twist (batter in advance?), Extinguish

Burn mini Guy Fawkes (made on Guy Fawkes week).


Fire building
https://learn.eartheasy.com/guides/campfire-cooking/

Lay the Kindling
Fill the fire area with crumpled paper or tinder.
Lay kindling over paper in layers, alternating direction with each layer. Use thin splits of wood or small dead branches. Do not put kindling down “teepee style”. The whole fire area should be covered with the kindling stack.
Set a bucket of water near the fire area. Light the paper to start your fire.

Build the Fire, Grade the Coals
When kindling is ablaze, add firewood. The wood should be all the same size, as much as possible. Use hardwood or hardwood branches if available. Distribute wood evenly over fire bed.
As soon as the last flames die down leaving mostly white coals, use a stick to push the coals into a higher level at the back end and lower level at the front. This will give you the equivalent of ‘Hi’, ‘Med’ and ‘Low’ cook settings. Or, level the coals to your preference.

To cook, set the grill on rocks or wetted green logs. Put food directly on grill or in cookware and prepare your meal. If cooking directly on the grill, a small spray bottle or squirt gun is handy for shooting down any rogue flames, usually caused by food drippings.

As the fire diminishes, bank the coals to get the most heat from them.

After cooking, add wood for your evening campfire. Before retiring, extinguish thoroughly and soak with water. Turn rocks in on fire bed. It will be easy to reassemble the next day if required.


Apples
https://www.getoutwiththekids.co.uk/camping/camping-tips/recipes/campfire-baked-apples/
Wash and cut out the apple cores.
Inside each apple, you want to stuff the hole where the core was with a filling. (Inside each apple, you want to stuff the hole where the core was with a filling.)
The baked apple filling is simply a mix of brown sugar, sultanas, and cinnamon. Adjust the mix according to what your family likes.
Depending on how sticky you want your kids, stuffing the apples is something they can do.
Simply wrap each apple individually in foil.
Place in the embers.
Apples do not take long to bake. I think we were around 5 to 10 minutes.


Bananas
https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/20038/campfire-banana-splits/
Slice the peel of the banana from stem to bottom, while slicing the banana inside lengthwise. The bananas can be cut into slices instead if you like, (while still in the peel) for easier handling later.
Carefully open the banana just wide enough to place the chocolate chips and marshmallows inside the peel with the banana. Stuff with as much of the chocolate chips and marshmallows as desired.
Wrap the bananas with the aluminum foil and place on the grill or directly in the coals of a fire. Leave in long enough to melt the chips and the marshmallows, about 5 minutes. Unwrap bananas, open the peels wide, and eat with a spoon.


Dough twists
https://www.instructables.com/Making-Campfire-Twists/
Start by mixing both dry ingredients in a large bowl. Once the sugar and flour are combined, add about 200-300ml of water and mix as well as you can. It'll start to bind together. Keep adding small amounts of water - about 50ml increments to get it to bind into one big lump. It's almost a kneeding motion as you would use with normal bread (be rough with it)
When the dough becomes smooth as pictured in the last pic, you're done.
You'll also need something to cook your twists on. We teach our scouts to cut down a live branch, strip it of bark and leaves. If you then lick it and it tastes bitter, discard it. If it tastes sweet, it's probably OK. We also teach them which trees aren't good for them, but in Britain, it's a fair rule to follow. Make sure you know which trees you're licking if you're demonstrating this elsewhere.
Sticks work best the thicker they are. My stick is very long and at the thickest end is about 1/4-1/2"
You need surprisingly little dough as it will still swell when cooked. My view is take a lump which will comfortable fit in your hand.
Roll it into a snake shape. Do not be tempted to make it really thick - you want it about 1/4"-1/2" thick and 'twist' it on to the stick.
Thicker dough or dough that isn't twisted does two things: 1.) it doesn't cook all the way through and doesn't swell at all well. 2.) it falls off onto the floor.
Cooking on embers is really important. Embers are the glowing bits at the bottom of a fire. You get embers when the rest of the wood has turned to carbon and is a bit like a BBQ. Embers are really hot.
Flames on the other hand will put soot on your twist and it'll taste pretty horrible. Not that it stops scouts from doing this or even eating them.
Add spread.

Tags

• Apple
• backwards cooking
• banana
• Dough twists
• fire

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• Adventure - Activity
• Backwoods Cooking - Embers
• Backwoods Cooking - Extinguish
• Backwoods Cooking - Light fire
• Backwoods Cooking - Prepare fire
• Backwoods Cooking - Stick
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• Outdoors - Cook