Favorite Recipies of our Scouts
Breakfasts
  •  Rice Pudding - (Serves 6 .. or 2 Life Scouts) - Mix in a ziplock bag 2 cups powdered milk / 3 cups rice / 1.5 teaspoons cinnamon / 3 pinches of nutmeg / 1.5 boxes of instant banana pudding. On the campout boil 6 cups of water and add the contents in the ziplock bag - stir until mixed.
  • Omlets in a Bag - Start a pot of boiling water - in a ziplock bag place 2 eggs - chunks of ham - pieces of peppers and onions. Seal the bag an place in the boiling water until the eggs are cooked. Open the bags and add grated cheese - mix until the cheese is melted. Caution: placing the cheese in the bag before cooking makes it very hard to tell when the eggs are cooked since melted cheese looks like runny eggs. A paint marker makes it easy to mark each scout's bag in the pot of water.
  • Muffins - Fully cooked sausage patties (regular - maple - spicy), then eggs are fried, English muffins are toasted and the sausage - egg - and a slice of cheese are combined in the muffins for a warm and tasty breakfast.
  • Oatmeal - Water is boiled for instant oatmeal and topped off with a Little Debbies' snack cake. Great for last days to get a quick breakfast and limit the clean-up.
  • Donuts - Heat up some Olive oil in a pan - take Pillsbury buttermilk biscuits and form each piece into a donut shape - place in the oil until light brown / flip until done - place in a ziplock bag with powdered sugar and coat - pull out of the bag and place on a napkin. (Can be cooked in vegetable oil, if you are camping VERY close to home.)
  • Pancakes - use complete pancake mix so only water needs to be added. Mix well in a bowl. Coat the heated griddle with a light coat of oil - cook / flip / cook - serve with maple syrup and butter.
  • Eggs 'n Hash - Combine scrambled eggs and cans of corn beef hash. Cook in a skillet until the eggs are fully cooked.
  • Sausage patties in hamburger buns with spicy mustard.
  • 4-egg omelets with chunks of ham, onion, peppers and cheese - fried in a skillet.

Snow Ice Cream - Fill a 1-gallon bowl with snow. Stir in 1 cup white sugar, 1 tablespoon vanilla extract, then stir in enough milk (up to 2 cups) for the desired consistency. Serve at once.
Lunch or Supper
  • Jambalaya - 2 boxes of Zatarain's Jambalaya Mix is mixed with 5 cups of boiling water - 2 pounds of precooked sausage is cut into bite-sized pieces and added to the mix. Simmer until the rice absorbs the water.  (Serves 6 .. or 2 Adult Leaders)
  • Tacos - set out soft and hard shells - while one person browns the hamburg - prepare bowls of tomatoes / cheese / peppers / onions / lettuce. Have a bottle of salsa or taco sauce. (Hot pepper sauce also works nicely)
  • Rice 'n Salsa - Cook a 14oz box of brown rice, stir in a large jar of salsa and a bag of taco cheeses and let it simmer until the rice absorbs the water and the cheese melts.
  • Macaroni & Cheese - potato chips
  • Hotdogs - buns - baked beans
  • Cheeseburgers - buns - snacks
  • Pasta Pizza - cook pasta in a pot - then add pizza sauce and pepperoni with grated cheese on top.
  • Bubble Pizza - line dutch oven with aluminum foil - coat with butter - put biscuit dough across the bottom of a dutch oven - cover with pizza sauce - add mushrooms, pepperoni, other pizza toppings, leave over fire/coals until dough is baked.
  • "Kielbasa" or "Polish sausage" is a hearty replacement to hotdogs - can be topped with spicy mustard and served with snack food for a no-clean-up meal.
  • Pack of wide noodles boiled for 8 minutes, add a 3# can of fully-cooked boneless chicken and a can of sliced olives. Simmer until meat is hot.
Deserts
  • Cobbler - hours in advance someone needs to be creating a supply of hot coals. Dutch ovens are lined with aluminum to limit clean-up. Use liquid butter to coat the foil - empty two 21oz cans of pie filling into the dutch oven - sprinkle a box of cake mix over the pie filling - add a little butter and a sprinkle some cinnamon. Make sure there are hot coals under and on top of the dutch oven. Cook until the cake mix looks right.
Backpacking
  • Trail Mix / Nuts / Jerky / fruit / crackers & meat spread are easy food sources on the move.
  • Natural High / Richmoor / Backpacker's Pantry / Mountain House / Alpineaire all make a variety of meals that only require hot water to be added.
  • Place everything for a meal in a 1-gallon ziplock bag. This might include a ziplock bag with 1-cup rice, a can of cooked chicken or foil pack of tuna, a 1-3/4oz. bag of peanuts or granola bar and perhaps a couple teabags or coffee singles. Water can be boiled and placed in the ziplock bag to cook the rice - and the chicken or tuna is added to heat up. After the meal all the trash is sealed back up in the 1-gallon ziplock bag to pack out.

©2006, Troop 69 - Apple Creek, Ohio - all rights reserved
Bob Geiser, Webservant