What to Eat and Cook While Camping

Most campers have their routine of what to pack and how they plan to eat while camping. Here are just a few ideas to aid in making cooking simple while camping. These are some old tried and true tricks for any kind of camping trip.

Camp Fire Bread: Roll or pull biscuit dough into long strips. Have a clean stick of medium size and wrap the dough around it. Hold the stick over hot coals, turning continually till the bread is cooked.

Camp Fire Broiling: A rack from your home oven supported on rocks over an open fire not only makes a nice broiler and toaster, but also a flat top on which to set kettles. Salt sprinkled over the coals will prevent the drippings from starting a blaze. Lighted candle sticks and scattered among twigs will dry wet wood sufficiently to create a blaze. The smaller fire is better for cooking. An inner layer of dry birch bark will kindle any fire although hickory makes the better fire for cooking.

Drinking Water: If you run out of water and do not have your water purifier and you are fearful that the nearest water is polluted, add one drop of tincture of iodine, the ordinary seven per-cent kind, to each quart of the water. Shake and allow to stand for a half-hour before using, that will kill all the harmful bacteria. Always the juice of a lemon can go a long way toward extra sterilizing. If water supply is scarce, canned tomato juice is a thirst quencher.

Tips for Food: Old inner tubes, cut into short lengths, turned inside out and slipped over glass jars will protect them from breakage in transit. A convenient way to carry salad is to pack individual portions in paraffin cups or in a half-pint paraffin-coated ice-cream boxes. This keeps it fresh longer.

Toasting at Campfire: When toasting before an open fire instead of wrapping the hand in a cloth, shield the hand with a piece of cardboard about six inches square with a slit in the middle for your stick to go through.

BY: Karen Malzeke