Dutch Oven

When we camped in the woods last year, I made some Beer Bread in a Dutch Oven and it went down really well. It is basically four cups wholemeal bread flour, salt, sugar, herbs, garlic, dried toms and any other fancy stuff you fancy - then you just pour in a 500ml bottle of real ale, mix it all up and leave it for half an hour before popping it in the Dutch Oven and placing it in the embers for another half an hour. (It works well in a regular oven too)

The yeast in the beer does enough work to make the bread pretty light - the flavour is out of this world.

Today, I practiced a recipe for a Peach Cobbler that is perfect for camping as it's so easy. You need any white cake mix, a can of lemonade and 2 tins of peach slices. Dump the cake mix and drained peaches in the pot, give it a stir and then add lemonade until the consistency is about right. Pop it on the embers for half an hour.

We had it with ice cream for dessert this evening.