Boy Scout
Troop
  
Columbia, Missouri
Now We’re
Cooking !
Biscuits
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Biscuits
One of the simplest things you can
prepare out camping is a biscuit. You
can make just one or a plateful.
These all use good old fashioned canned biscuits.
1. Biscuit on a stick – easy to fix. Start off with a green stick or soaked dowel rod * about 3 feet long. Then take a single biscuit (from a can) and roll it out to
make a “snake” about a half inch thick.
Wrap the “snake” around the end of the green stick – tucking the beginning
and end under the wrap so they don’t fall off. Sit down, hold it over a campfire or coals – slowing turning it
until it is brown. It slides off
easily … add margarine, jelly, honey, molasses, gravy, or whatever to it and
eat.
2. Cinnamon
Biscuit on a stick – easy
to fix, and prepared identically to the above … except when finished – roll
the brown biscuit in melted margarine, and then coat with a cinammon sugar
mix (which you can prepare ahead of time, and bring in a plastic bag).
3. Monkey bread – This one takes a Dutch oven, but
honestly, it’s not hard at all and it’s very much worth the effort. All the “dry” ingredients (like the
sugars, cinnamon and raisins) can be put in small sandwich bags at home for
easy toting.
You’ll need:
4 cans regular size biscuits (not Jumbos)
1 cup sugar
1 cup brown sugar
4 tablespoons cinnamon
1 cup raisins
1 stick margarine
Aluminum foil
PAM vegetable spray
1 large (empty) plastic bag – gallon size
To do this:
Get your charcoal hot – you’ll need about 18 briquettes.
Line the Dutch oven with aluminum foil, and then spray the foil with
PAM.
Cut the biscuits into quarters. Mix
sugars, cinnamon and raisins into a large plastic bag or pot.
Drop biscuit pieces into bag, shake very well to coat them.
Place into Dutch oven (foil lined & sprayed).
Melt butter, and pour over biscuits.
Put lid on oven.
Put about 8-10 charcoal briquettes underneath – evenly spaced, and the rest
on the lid – evenly spaced.
Bake for about 25-30 minutes, or until everything is risen up, and sugars are
melted. Check it about every 5 minutes.
Clean up is a snap.
Throw away aluminum foil .. that’s it.
* If you use a dowel rod, the part
holding the biscuit needs to soak in plain water overnight prior to use to
prevent burning. You can invert the
rods into an old coffee can filled with water.
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