Backcountry Recipes This area is available for any backcountry recipes you have discovered that you would like to share. To submit a recipe, please send me e-mail. Recipe Index Backcountry Breakfast Beef Jerky Recipe Granola Chews aka "Trail Cookies" Wake-Up Oatmeal Tasty Omlets Bean and Pasta Soup Tangy Water Chicken &Dumplings [IMG] Heart Hash Browns [IMG] Backcountry Breakfast My favourite backcountry breakfast: 1/2 cup (or maybe a little bit more) oatmeal 1/4 cup Carnation low fat powdered milk 1/3 cup raisins 1/3 cup mixed nuts (chopped walnuts &sliced almonds) a dash of shelled sunflower seeds 1 tablespoon of brown sugar Mix ingredients thoroughly in a bowl and pour contents into a baggy. When ready to eat breakfast all you have to do is dump contents from the baggy into a pot and add 2 cups boiling water. Let contents sit for two minutes, then serve. John H. Jordan jjordan@acsu.buffalo.edu Beef Jerky Recipe Slice lean boneless beef (such as brisket) into 1/8" strips, trimming fat. Cut with the grain for chewy jerky or across the grain for crumbly jerky. Lay strips on oven rack (use foil or pan underneath to catch drippings). Salt to taste. Dry in oven at lowest temperature (150 degrees), leaving door slightly ajar, for 8-12 hours. Turn several times for even drying. Taste test occasionally. For more seasoned flavor, marinate cut meat overnight in the following ingredients: Enough for 1-1/2 pounds of meat. 1 tsp. each - salt,seasoning salt 1/2 tsp. each - pepper, onion powder, garlic salt 1/4 cup each - soy sauce, worchestershire Dry as above. Vary marinade as experience and personal taste dictate... for instance, I use a little liquid smoke, One packing buddy of mine uses a little hot pepper sauce.... I got this from Bill Thomson..without the 'p' ... last known e-mail address: wthomson@edge.ercnet.com Checken &Dumplings Ingredients 2 envelopes Lipton's Cream of Chicken Cup-o-soup 1 can Swanson's Chunk Chicken Meat 1/2 package of mixed freeze-dried vegetables 1 cup Bisquick in a zip-lock bag Water Mix the soup, chicken meat and vegetables in a relatively deep pot with 2 to 3 cups water. Place on camp stove. Heat to simmering, stirring occasionally. While soup stuff is heating, add water (see Bisquick box instructions for qty.) to Bisquick and knead in the zip-lock bag. When soup stuff is hot, tear off a corner of the bag and squeeze out plops of Bisquick into the pot. Cover and cook for about 10 mintues on low heat. This recipes was submitted by Steve Rohde Hearty Hash Browns Take a box of frozen hash browns in a ziplock but ditch the box. Take along enough alluminum foil to hold them. Use your fovorite condiments on them and ball them up in the alluminum foil and place in the fire where you can reach it with a stick. Check every now and then to see if they are done. If you are somewhere where they don't allow fires cook as you regurly do on a camping stove. This recipes was submitted by Grant Smith [IMG]