Good meals prepared and served in the outdoors are a special treat, and a boost to any activity.  Here are recipes for activities ranging from light-weight backpacking to base and long-term camps.

Contents

Outdoor Recipes for all occasions

Recipe Book from Sommers Canoe Base -my companion on my 1965 canoe trip.   Just for fun, In Acrobat .PDF format.  48K

Outdoor meal recipes - Quick and easy. Good meals for beginning cooks.

Scout Meal Favorites - Check out these recipes from the 130th Duggan.

Favorite Scouting Recipes - From Scouts-l mail list.

Bannock Bread Recipes - The woodsman's staple.

Sourdough Bread Basics - Sourdough is not just for prospectors swarming over the California and Klondike gold fields. Discover the secrets of this ancient staple and taste treat.

Jaffle Iron Recipes - This unique cooking utensil is called a pie-maker in the U.S.
         The Minute Pie Mold web site shows what these cookers looks like.

Assorted Recipes for Camping - These recipes have been collected from a variety of sources, and will be useful in a variety of outdoor and Scouting situations. Select the ones that appeal to you or fit in with your cooking needs.

Dutch Oven Recipes and Cooking Techniques.

Seasoning a Dutch oven - Tips on one method to take care of your oven.

Dutch oven cooking - Tips and Recipes from Scouts-L mail list.

Dutch oven picture - Check out this picture if you have never seen one.

Dump Cake Secrets Revealed! - Favorite dump cake recipes (scouts-l).

Black Forest Cobbler - Recipes for this luxury dessert.

Backpacking and Lightweight Cooking

Backpacking Recipes Collection - Lightweight cooking without suffering. (71k)

Backpacking Food Ideas

Backpacking foods from the Supermarket - Suggestions From Scouts-L and rec.scouts

Inexpensive Backpacking meals

Light Cooking For The Trail - By the 17th Ottawa (Ont.) Venturer Company

Meat Jerky

Cooking Methods and Techniques

No Cleanup cooking - Cook without pots or utensils. Eliminate those dishpan-hands.

Camp Meals with Pizzazz - Go beyond canned stew and Cup-'O-Soup meals.

Webelos Outdoor Cooking - Here is a wealth of good, well written information on outdoor cooking, firebuilding, recipes and more for the beginning outdoor cook.

Make your own inexpensive and tasty dried trail food and snacks using the directions in these articles.

Here is the help you need to make your meals more interesting, especially those bland trail meals.

Equipment and General Cooking Information

Miscellaneous Cooking Information - A reference list of weight and volume equivalents, substitutions, can volumes, and many other cooking tidbits and aides.

Food Storage Information - Food storage lifetimes and methods.

High Altitude Baking Adjustments - Heading to Philmont? Some info to help us flat-landers.

Evaluation and Taste Test of MRE's - First-hand information on military Meals, Ready to Eat, in case you have been considering using them.

Patrol Kitchen Designs

Campfire Ovens and Stoves