In a plastic bag or other suitable container:
• 3 cups flour.
• 1 dessert spoon sugar.
• 1½ teaspoons salt.
• 2 tablespoons milk powder.

In a small plastic bag:
• ½ cup flour — for dusting hands, etc, when kneading the dough.

In a separate plastic bag or other suitable container:
• 1 tablespoon Edmonds Surebake Dried Yeast.

Optional:
• 1 teaspoon mixed spice — added to first flour ingredients.
• ½ cup currants — added when the dough has doubled in size and before it is kneaded for the second time.

You will also need:
• 1 small billy (1¼ litre minimum) + lid (no plastic handles or other parts).
• 1 large billy + lid to hold small billy (no plastic handles or other parts).
• 1 camp stove or camp fire.

Put first four ingredients into large billy. Put dried yeast into small billy. Mix yeast with ½ – ⅔ cup lukewarm water — being careful not to use too much. Add yeast mixture to large billy and mix. Knead for 15 minutes (on groundsheet or whatever). Grease large billy with butter. Put dough inside. lid on, and let rise in sun or other warm place for ½ hr – 1 hr – 2 hrs, always being very careful not to bump billy as this will make the dough fall flat. When doubled in size, knead again for 15 minutes and allow to rise again. Grease small billy with butter. Put dough inside with lid on. In bottom of the large billy, put ¼ inches of pebbles or sand to insulate the bottom from the campfire and to create a heat reservoir. Put the small billy inside the larger billy, lid on. Put on stove and cook for 30 – 40 minutes according to amount of heat. When cooked sufficiently, the loaf will sound hollow when knocked with the knuckles.

Making bread when tramping is quite easy once you have gotten the hang of it, and after several days of living on stale bread it is absolutely delicious.