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Dutch Oven

A Dutch Oven is a thick-walled iron (usually cast iron) cooking pot with a tight-fitting lid. It is commonly referred to as a 'camp oven' in the Australian bush, cocotte in French, as a 'casserole dish' in British English ...

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Cub Scouts Recipes

There's nothing like a hot, healthy meal of good, wholesome food like chicken or chili after an exhausting day of scouting! Cubs and leaders can get some great food recipes here for breakfast, lunch, or dinner as well as desserts and trail snacks. There's also a selection of dutch oven recipes. Start the day right with a high-energy breakfast, take a break at mid-day with a nourishing lunch, and don't forget to make time for a fun dessert around the campfire after dinner. Cooking is a big part of scouting and scouts learn a lot about becoming self-sufficient, clean, patient, and forgiving when it comes to meals cooked in less-than-ideal conditions.

Please check out this website for more recipes: http://www.boyscouttrail.com/recipe_search.asp
Au Gratin Ham and Potatoes Recipe
Ingredients: 4 Tbsp butter or margarine
1 onion
3 Tbsp flour
2 cups milk
Seasoned salt and pepper
1-1/2 cups cooked ham
3 cups potatoes
1/2 cup cheese
2 Tbsp fine bread crumbs
Notes: main course
Instructions: Mince onion.
Dice ham.
Dice potatoes.
Grate cheese.
Preheat dutch oven to 325 degrees.
Melt butter and saute onion until translucent.
Blend in flour.
Gradually add milk, stirring constantly until thickened.
Add pepper and seasoned salt.
Mix in ham and potatoes to coat well.
Sprinkle cheese and bread crumbs on top.
Cover and bake at 400 degrees for 20 minutes.
Baked Salmon Recipe
Ingredients: 1 11-inch length of whole salmon body
6 ears of corn
1/2 stick butter, melted
3 tablespoons lemon juice
1/2 cup sliced onion
1/2 lemon, sliced
seasoned salt
parmesan cheese
Notes: dinner serves 6
Instructions: Place husked corn in bottom of dutch oven to cover bottom.
Shake seasoned salt inside salmon.
Lay alternating slices of onion and lemon inside the salmon.
Pour 1 cup water into the D.O.
Lay salmon on corn cobs.
Mix butter and lemon juice and baste top of salmon.
Cook for 15 minutes with 2/3 coals on top and 1/3 underneath.
Sprinkle parmesan cheese on top.
Cook for another 15 minutes.

Serve with rice, noodles, or couscous.
Beef Pot Roast Recipe
Ingredients: 3 lb rump roast or pot roast
3 Tbsp vegetable oil
3 potatoes, peeled and halved
3 carrots, cut into 2' pieces
2 onions, halved
1 tsp salt
1/4 tsp pepper
1/2 cup water
Notes: main course
Instructions: Brown roast in oven on all sides in oil.
Remove meat.
Place half of vegetables in bottom of oven.
Return meat to oven and season with salt and pepper.
Add remaining vegetables and water.
Cover and cook at 300 degrees for 3-5 hours depending on how well done you like it.
Clam Chowder Recipe
Required: 1 pot
Ingredients: 1 package Knor Swiss Leak soup mix
2/3 cup instant potatoes
2/3 cup powdered milk
5 cups water
1 6oz can chopped or minced clams including juice
1 cup oyster crackers
1/2 cup Bacon Bits
Notes: Serves 4
Instructions: Pour all ingredients into pot.
Bring to a boil, stirring occasionally to prevent scorching.
Simmer 10 minutes.
Sprinkle bacon bits and crackers on top when serving.
Dutch Oven Chicken Dinner Recipe
Ingredients: 8 chicken breasts
1 cup flour
1 Tbs. poultry seasoning
4 potatoes
4 carrots
Notes: main course
Instructions: Cut potatoes and carrots into 1/2 inch chunks.

Put 1/2 inch of oil in dutch oven and place on coals.

Mix flour and seasonings in plastic bag.
Place 1 chicken breast in bag and shake.
Repeat for each breast.
Put potato chunks in bag and shake.

When oil is hot, add chicken and cook until completely browned.
Drain excess oil from pot.
Add approximately 1/4 inch of water.
Place potatoes and vegetables over chicken.

Cook covered for 1 hour or until chicken is tender. Check periodically to ensure there is always a small amount of water in the bottom.
Egg Bake Recipe
Required: 12 inch dutch oven
Ingredients: 12 eggs
1 pint half & half
1 C milk
2 tsp salt
1/4 tsp pepper
2 tsp dry mustard
1 tsp Worcestershire sauce
1 lb cooked ham
2 C shredded cheddar cheese
8oz seasoned bread crumbs
Instructions:
  • Preheat dutch oven with 8 briquettes under and 16 on lid.
  • Beat the eggs in a bowl.
  • Dice ham.
  • Mix all ingredients into the eggs.
  • Pour into dutch oven and bake for 45-60 minutes.
Irish Soda Bread
Ingredients: 2 1/2 cup milk
2 Tbsp white vinegar
4 cup whole wheat flour
1 cup white flour
1/2 cup rolled oats
1 tsp baking soda
2 tsp salt
Notes: side dish
Instructions: Preheat 9-inch dutch oven to 375 degrees with 13 coals on top and 7 underneath.

Pour milk into a small bowl and mix in vinegar, then set aside.
In large bowl, mix all remaining ingredients.
Add milk mixture to large bowl and stir until thoroughly moistened into a dough.
Turn dough onto a floured board and knead for 10 minutes, making the dough smooth.
Form into a 9-inch round loaf and place in D.O.
Score a large X across the top, cutting in about 1/4 inch.
Bake for 1 hour or until bread is brown and hollow sounding when the crust is tapped.
Old Style Green Bean Recipe
Ingredients: 1 lb. bacon cut into squares
2 lbs. fresh green beans
1 can cream of mushroom soup
1/4 cup lemon juice
Notes: side dish
Instructions: Mix all ingredients except bacon and put in dutch oven preheated to 325 degrees.
Scatter bacon all over the top of the beans.
Cook for 35 minutes.
Simple Dutch Oven Pizza Recipe
Ingredients: 1 pkg. Hamburger Buns
1 can Spaghetti Sauce
1/2 lb Shredded Cheese
Selected pizza toppings - pepperoni, olives, ...
Notes: main course
Instructions: Cut open buns.
Spread sauce on bun.
Add cheese and toppings.
Place 6 buns in the dutch oven, depending on size.
Cook for 8 minutes, longer if the cheese has not melted.

Serves 16 pizzas, 6 to 8 scouts
Wormy Apple Recipe
Required: aluminum foil
Ingredients: 1 apple
1 precooked sausage link
Instructions: Core the apple
Insert a sausage link
Wrap in foil
Cook in coals 30-40 minutes