Backwoods Cooking: A Few Methods

Backwoods Mince
You can cook mince meat inside all sorts of vegetable containers: orange peels, hollowed-out potatoes, onions, butternut, gem squash, or even cabbage leaves.

Cabbage hot dogs
Lay sliced onion on a cabbage leaf, add a sausage or two and place more onions on top. Wrap up the cabbage leaf tightly and secure with a number of green sticks. Place in embers for about seven to ten minutes, turning occasionally.

Steamed fish
Make a fire that is long enough for the length of the fish and more than wide enough. Let this burn down to a good bed of embers. Meanwhile prepare the fish and clean thoroughly. Cut a lot of grass to use for steaming. Place a good layer of grass on top of the coals. Put the fish on top of the grass and place more grass on top. Then cover the fire and grass with dirt and pack it down. Wait for about thirty minutes and uncover.

Other methods for fish
Wrapped in cabbage leaf, or grilled on a grid make from twigs. Or pin the fish flesh side forward on a plank or piece of flat board and cook by reflected heat from the fire. For real style, place a knob of butter on the fish when it is cooking and later a splash of lemon.

Kebab
Use a green stick to spear slices of bacon, carrot, peppers, mushrooms, and pieces of pork. Support the skewer over glowing embers turning occasionally. Eat when the meat is crisp and golden brown.

Banana hot dogs
Take a banana and cut a slit in the peel down the inside of the curve, and open it outwards. Remove the banana and feed it to a passing camper or a nearby Scout. Now put sausage inside the banana peel and cook it directly on the coals.

Egg in orange
Cut an orange in half. Scoop out the flesh inside and eat it or give it to a near by camper- be careful not to cut through the skin! Now crack an egg into the skin and place on the embers of the fire until the egg is cooked.

Spud Egg / Egg in potato
Cut the top off a potato and scoop a hole in the middle. Crack the egg into the hole, put the top back in place and secure with small wooden pegs. Bake until the potato is cooked.