recipes

Vegetable Soup

The great winter lunch classic, or are you having a three-course dinner?

Tuna Chow Mein

A tasty and quick asian style dish

Sweet and Sour Meatballs

An European-Asian fusion dish, intense flavours, and always popular

Stewed Fruit

Hot or preserved fruit for winter desserts

Steamed Pudding

A classic hot pudding, and a new cooking technique to learn

Spaghetti Bolognese

Spag-bol, the classic italian meat sauce, goes well on most pasta shapes. Serve with a crisp salad, or hot steamed veges

Scrambled Eggs

Make a scrambled mess, or cook slower into a firm “hospital style” block, you choose the style

Scallops Newburg

A fancy restaurant grade dish you can make at camp

Roly Poly Pudding

An English favourite, we can imagine B.P. tucking into this at camp. Works well in a dutch oven on embers

Jelly Trifle

An English favourite, we can imagine B.P. tucking into this at camp. Works well in a dutch oven on embers

Rice

Great under a saucy casserole or curry, or part of a fancy salad

Rice Pudding

A creamy sweet mess, makes everything better on a cold day

Quick Custard

Serve hot on fruit cake, or with icecream

Pumpkin Soup

All the Scouts from Kaukapakapa Scout Group rave about this, and have been ruined from any other form of pumpkin soup since

Potato Salad

A filing cold salad, ideal for serving with a BBQ

Pot Roast

Simple to cook, economic ingredients, and very tasty. An ideal winter camp meal

Poached Eggs

Always looks like an alien. Great on toast or on top of a fry up

Pasta

Great with a tomato-based sauce, or part of a fancy salad

Pancakes

Flip and enjoy with you favourite topping. Try something savoury too

Macaroni Mince

Quick, simple, and tasty. Try grated cheese on top, serve with a crisp salad

Keema

A great one pot camp dinner, can be made with ground lamb too. A traditional Pakistani dish, pronounced “Kima”

Irish Stew

A kiwi camping take on the traditional Irish dinner

Fritters

Quick and tasty hot lunch. A great way to learn how to cook on an open fire hot plate, have a shovel handy for moving the embers around as required...

Fish Cakes

Tasty hot lunch, and a great use of leftover potatoes

Custard Pudding

Serve hot on cold

Curried Soup

One of those camp things! Tastes great, simple to make, looks weird :-/

Curried Mince

A classic camp dish, make it as spicy as your patrol likes

Coleslaw

A hearty salad, ideal for serving with a BBQ

Chocolate Steamed Pudding

A classic hot pudding, and a new cooking technique to learn

Chocolate-Mocha Cake

This cake may be served as a cake or as a desert. It needs preparing the day before

Chicken Chow Mein

A camp safe and simple way to make a kiwi takeaway favourite

Chicken Broth

The basic cooking medium for many dishes; from Chinese stir fries, to complex soups

Cheese Hot Cakes

Hot lunch or afternoon snacks. Also called “drop scones”

Braised Steak and Chunky Vegetables

Simple to cook, economic ingredients, and very tasty. An ideal winter camp meal

Braised Sausages

A traditional English dinner

Boiled Eggs

A famous breakfast treat, crap open and scoop out onto hot buttered toast. Or serve cold, sliced or crumbled cold into salads or savoury dishes

Beef Casserole

Simple to cook, economic ingredients, and very tasty. An ideal winter camp meal

Basic Soup Stock

Stock is the basis for a good soup, it is the liquid in which meat, bones, or vegetables have been cooked

Basic Sauces

Sauces make some foods more presentable, and allow deeper and richer flavours and textures. Lets start with

Road-Kill Burgers

Read this one carefully

Molecular Cheese Sauce

Make processed cheese, just like the Big Cheese factories do. It’s still cheese, just in a more fun form 4 serves Ingredients 100 g grated or crumbled cheese (~1 cup)...

Nachos

Can be cooked on a gas hob, open fire embers, or camp oven

Beef Stew and Cornbread

There’s nothing quite like a one pot stew and cornbread meal when camping

Chickpea and Coconut Curry

A really easy vegetarian meal. One of everything

Pineapple Upside Down Dump Cake

Can be cooked in electric or gas oven, or on open fire embers with a dutch oven

Holishkes

Holishkes are stuffed cabbage rolls, usually a ground meat and rice, and covered with tomato sauce. A quick shortcut is to wrap sausages in softened cabbages leaves, and bake until...

Spätzle

A traditional German boiled noodle or dumpling. Literally translated Spätzle means “little sparrow” Ingredients 1 large egg 125 g flour (1 cup) ½ tsp. salt ¼ water or more to...

Scott's Cupcakes

The base for an amazing artistic icing creation, cupcakes are popular with most people, and especially your mum on mother’s day! Ingredients 125 g butter 1 tsp vanilla essence ½...

Outback Damper Bread

Damper was originally prepared by workers in Australia and New Zealand who travelled in remote areas for weeks or months at a time, with only basic rations of flour, sugar...

Fajita Spice

Fajita is a old mexican cowboy recipe for cheap cuts of meat, cooked on a hot BBQ, and sliced to serve in a tortilla Ingredients 1 tsp Black pepper, freshly...

ANZAC Biscuits

New Zealand and Australia share a tradition of Anzac Biscuits. Both countries claim to have invented them, but Anzac Biscuits are similar to many other older biscuit recipes that are...

Hummus

The favourite dip of the Middle East Ingredients 500 g prepared chickpeas or 2 cans of chickpeas, drained (reserve fluid) 50 ml olive oil 4 garlic cloves 5 g Cumin...

Channa Pindi (Chickpea Surprise)

Can be cooked on a gas hob, or open fire embers

techniques

Camp Cooking, 1997

The Kaukapakapa Scout Group published a much loved Camp Cooking book for Scouts and Leaders. It was last compiled and printed in 1997 by Graeme Hounsell. Luckily he has lent...

Hot Box Cooking

A Hot Box or Hay Box is a cooking device that uses an insulated container for keeping a partially cooked ‘one pot meal’ hot so it can carry on cooking...

planning

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