Bread camp oven tips & recipes wanted

Look at post 31848 on this page

First, light a fire. Only tip I could think of.

Hiya

I bake bread on nearly every camping trip we do, I use a commercial breadmix, you can get them already packaged with the flour and you add the yeast to it. The best tip I can give you is go easy with the water, better to add a bit more than have it really soggy to begin with, it's got to be moist but not too sticky [at least that's what I've found] tepid water works well. Knead the dough for about 10 mins, then what we've found works well, you put it into a campoven, a bit of cooking spray to keep things from sticking and put it in a warm place, inside the car works well, or in a tent, for about 2 hours or so, and then put it on some hot coals with coals on the lid and underneath, and let it bake for about 50 mins, keeping an eye on the coals [the control of the coals etc is not my job at camp, so I can't get too technical] if you have alook at it after 50 mins and give it a tap if it sounds hollow it's done, and then just tip it out and enjoy it.

I think we've done this about a dozen loaves now, and they've all been great.

Others may have different tips, but this works for us.

cheers

Lyn

We all have allergies in our house, so commercial bread is not an option, nor is commercial bread mix. I mix up a big batch of bread dough, in my breadmaker, at home, and then freeze it in potions, in snaplock bags (with lots of room for rising). When we go camping, I put the frozen portion in the fridge. When needed I take it out, defrost and let it rise, sometimes in the car on the way to camp, and then cook in camp over! This is very easy, HTH - Jo

Steve,

Can't give a lot of tips on mixing of dough, but you must keep the mix warm, and put a tea-towel, or something over the mixing dish, so the top of the dough doesn't "chill".

As for the baking, you need plenty of coals, well in advance. If you are in the north, or even western Qld, there is a tree that provides excellent cooking coals. It is Native Bauhinia, or Bean Tree(Lysiphyllum gilvum) Dry wood of this tree is brittle, and easy to break up.

I worked in stockcamps in the Kimberly, during the late '60's and early '70's, and most of the camp cooks could really make good bread, and bauhinia was their favourite wood. Trouble was the metho for starting the Tilley lamps was pretty popular too. Look out if they bought a bottle of cordial out to camp!

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