hot bread in the dutch oven.....

please could you past on the receipe
thank you

Jo, I too would appreciate your recipe. Wer are heading off next Friday for a trip along the Connie Sue and over to Broome. Thought I wouldn't get too many bread places along the way. Many thanks,
champagne

LOL - it is not a receipe, just more a how to!

I do two different things, depending on the length of the trip.

1. Using the purchased bread mix from the supermarket (or a receipe from the breakmakers handbook), I make it in my bread maker, using the dough only setting - this stops the cycle after the first rising. I then remove the dough, and divide it into portions and freeze. When we go camping for a few nights, I just take one or two out, and put them in the fridge. In the evening before going to bed, I take on out of the fridge, to allow it to defrost, and then in the morning, but it near the fire, or in the sun, to rise. Knock it down gently after about an hour of rising, and put in the camp oven. I usually use one of those disposeable tray you get from the supermarket, and put that on a trivet in the camp oven. Coals on top, and underneath, and should be cooking nicely in about an hour. Also helps if you get the camp oven hot over the fire first, before you start cooking - sort of like preheating a conventional oven. Do be warned however that if your fridge is not cold enough, the dough will start to rise, and bust out of the bag, usually going all over the beer or worse the wine!!!

2. The other method I use when we are away for extended periods. Take one of the 4kg bread mixes (premeasure and bag portions before leaving home) available from the supermarket and follow the mixing directions, and then the cooking directions from above.

Damper - prepurchased scone mix from the supermarket is fantastic! If you want to DIY - SR Flour, milk (can use beer even) and sugar, mixed gently to a nice consisteny and cooking in the same way, but for only about half an hour or so!
Another handy hint is that you can cook your eggs and bacon in a pan on top of the coals on the camp oven, fresh bread, eggs and bacon for breakfast!

Hope this helps - Jo

Hope this helps! - Jo

Thanks Jo, I'll give the scone mix a go as we are stacked to the rafters in the car, and I can't imagine suggesting that taking the bread maker would be a good idea. He's a bit grumblebum at the moment with packing it all.
Again, thanks,
Jan

Oh dear Jan, I wasn't suggesting you take the breadmaker, just the packet mix from the supermarket, it has instructions for making it by hand and the bread machine! LOL. This isn't the Jan I know, with a terracan is it?

Happy to help - Jo

Sorry, I realised that you are not the Jan I know, they are heading to the cape, not west!!! LOL - meet so many people 4wding, I can't remember them all!

jo

Spike,

Good to hear you have become an expert Baker.

The type of bread dough you use has a fair impact on the result too.

At home, we tend to buy and eat Wholemeal bread. But having tried this mix in the Camp Oven, I find it rather heavy and much prefer the "Crusty White Bread" mix when camping.

This type of behaviour, when performed in no particular hurry, with no particular deadline, just adds to the pleasure of camping, Aye!

Try putting in some crushed garlic when you mix it and it is bloody sensational! Dollop of butter in hot bread with garlic in it brings the neighbours over when being baked. Also sprinkle some grated cheese on top when baking!!

Cheers

Madcow,
Damn food talk is making me hungry.
Ok now for a tuch of "Italian".....
Add to your suggestion about the garlic.....as you slice the bread up ready to munch it down, run a bit of Exrta Virgin Oil in it too, let it find its way in and then try it (not too much) just a tad, your mouth will water and with the restrictions we have at the moment, every drop helps.
Ange

yep it's great. My trade is a Baker before the odd hours shoulders caught up with me and now I only do it when camping or on the odd occasion at home. Another tip try baking it in the BBQ with a hood and it is like it was made from the mother country.

Dave

What size generator ?

Not sure, it was not my gen set - A Honda - I think 1200!

trecker

we got a honda eu10 , runs a bread maker no worries

froomey

yer me too, of course if you dont bake something, then she'll do her bacon and you'll be left with egg on your face

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RAISIN BREAD

A bakery owner hires a young female clerk who likes to wear very short skirts and G string panties.
One day a young man enters the store, glances at the clerk and glances at the loaves of bread behind the counter.
Noticing the length of her skirt (or lack thereof) and the location of the raisin bread, he has a brilliant idea.

"I'd like some raisin bread please," the man says politely.

The female clerk nods and climbs up a ladder to reach the raisin bread, which is located on the very top shelf. The young man standing almost directly beneath her is provided with an excellent view, just as he surmised he would.

Once she descends the ladder he muses that he really should get two loaves, as he is having company for dinner.

As the clerk retrieves the second loaf of bread, one of the other male customers notices what was going on.

Thinking quickly, he requests his own loaf of raisin bread so he can continue to enjoy the view.

With each trip up the ladder, the young lady seems to catch the eye of another male customer.

Pretty soon, each male customer is asking for raisin bread, just to see the clerk climb up and down.

After many trips she is tired, irritated and thinking that she is really going to have to try the bread herself.

Finally, once again atop the ladder, she stops and fumes, glaring at the men standing below. She notices an elderly man standing amongst the crowd, staring up at her. Thinking to save herself a trip, she yells at the elderly man,

"Is it raisin for you too?

"No," stammers the old man, "but it's a quiverin'."