Damper

I have one at home I will dig up for you when I get home this evening.

This made me think of another possible feature for the site, be it for members only or everyone. A recipe section. If I am blind and there is already one on the site then please let me know. I have only found the tips for Food & Cooking and Water under the "On The Road" section.

But a section where people can post their favourite recipes and allow them to be categorised.

cheers,
Sam.

Three cups of flour, one can of beer, pinch of salt.

Add the beer slowly, add the salt and mix well. Leave to stand for an hour or so while the oven warms up.

Put the oven on some hot coals, put the damper mix on a cake try in the oven and then put some coals on the oven lid. Check after 30 minutes and replace coals. Should be done in less than an hour depending on the coals.

Leave to cool a bit and then eat with butter or jam and cream.

Enjoy.

Peter

Damper: Sift 2 cups SR flour and 1/2 tsp salt twice. Mix well with scant cup of milk using a knife. Do not touch with hands. Half fill a greased and floured round cake tin or a loaf tin or pie dish. Roll in clean tea-towel until cold.
Soda Bread: Sift 1/2 pound SR flour (or 1/2 pound plaiin flour and 2 tsps baking powder. Add 1/2 tsp salt and rub in 1 full tblsp butter (dripping is better). Mix into a dough with 1 full cup of milk, form into a loaf pointed at each end. Mark centre with back of a knife, brush over with milk and bake in mod. over. Yum.

It's hard enough trying to keep the travelling bug at bay without reading all these replies and thinking about sitting around an open fire cooking damper.

Or even better, for a savoury damper add some chopped onion, dried tomatoes ( the ones in oil in a bottle as you can use em for lots of stuff)
and some mixed herbs & pepper. Great.

For a sweet one as mentioned above dried fruits, either mixed or your own preferences, some cinamon & nutmeg .

In each case a dollop of olive oil makes for a moist damper which wont dry out as quick.

Lead me to the nearest camp fire!

Try making bread- bit more stuffing around but there's no comparison (and then u start on other loaves, rolls etc etc )- also check out Jack Absalom 'Outback Cooking in the Camp Oven" nothing new in the food department there,and it's a bit like travelling back in time but all the recipes work great- actually Reg Jack's brother is the cook- it's worth buying the book just to see his fairdinkum clothes- and, I guess you know this one of course but the fire doesn't need to be big, just good coals- half the world cooks like this every day of course- Cheers TonyT

G'daye Bernie,
Bread recipe (fast)
3 cups flour, 1 self raising, 2 wholemeal.
desert spoon sugar, salt, 1 can beer NOT cold.
Mix together, place in tin, place in camp oven
or COBB, only takes about 25-30 mins in COBB.
Dried fruit can be added if desired.