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Simple bannock and other reflector oven ideas

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Hi all,
I'm planning on a long solo this summer, bringing along a collapsible reflector oven. Though my meals are largely going to be of the freeze dried or mac and cheese variety, I'd like to make bannock and perhaps a few other goodies in the reflector oven. Being lazy, I'm looking for as simple as possible--pre-mix ingrerdients and just add water in the bush type of things.
Any suggestions on the perfect simple bannock mix or other reflector worthy baked goodies?
Thanks in advance.

-tom
 
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No recipe to share, but powdered peanut butter is a bannock game-changer. Whatever the recipe, I usually whip up a batch at home before committing - strictly for testing purposes, of course.

Edit: Nephew delighted in chopping up some pepperettes to mix into a savoury bannock. Genius he is.
 
 
For bannock I use Gil Gilpatrick's "Canoe Country Bread" recipe:
  • 4 cups flour
  • 1/2 cup sugar
  • 4 tsps baking powder
  • 3 tsps salt
  • just add water (slowly, and not too much -- dough good, batter bad)
There is nothing greasy, nothing that will go bad in less than months, but it tastes really good when fresh (and I eat it all). It can be baked in a fry pan with a little oil, on a stick, in a bread pan, etc. You could make biscuits in your reflector oven. I usually make it with half white flour half whole wheat so it's more earthy. This is probably the only non-drink recipe I have memorized.
 
I can testify to this recipe. Made it many times in the reflector oven and it never failed.
 
There are some "just add water" cake mixes that we use to make dessert cakes. Blueberry and Mixed berry varieties. They work well if you have a bread pan.
 
I thought I would post my recipe for making four good size biscuits, great for solo camping.

1&1/2 cup all purpose flour
1/2 tsp. salt
1&1/2 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. sugar
1&1/2 Tbls powdered milk
3 Tbls "squeeze margarine"
1/2 cup water

Bag all dry ingredients at home.
Mix flour, salt, baking powder, sugar and powdered milk in a quart freezer bag. When ready to bake, add margarine and water. Knead the bag until the ingredients are well mixed. It should have a firm texture. Take dough from bag and form a square, then quarter. Place on a pan or sheet and bake in a reflector oven until well browned. Works well with jam or as sandwich stock.
 

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I had to look up “pannikin”. Can you just use a modern “cup”?
A pannikin is 1.5-2 cups. Rest assured that any recipe using pannikin as a unit of measure is not super precise, so feel free to approximate.
 
Bannock is real food. Make a depression in your flour sack add some salt and baking powder. Add water to make a firm dough. I like to add raisins or picked berries, maybe some cinnamon or allspice. A little sugar if you have it. Fat is what makes it memorable.
 
I make these for a Voyageur style breakfast at a wilderness leadership guide training graduation ceremony. This the last batch of at least 60 biscuits that I cook. Serve with real maple syrup and/or jam.... Baked beans and corn meal mush with maple completes the meal with "cowboy coffee"..... Yum
Ingredients I use:
White flour
Wheat flour
Oat flour
Corn meal
whole milk powder (Nido)
White sugar
Brown Sugar
Baking powder
Salt
Crisco (traditionalists will use lard)
cook in liquid squeeze margarine over a wood fire

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I like to make a peanut butter bread, I do add a more peanut butter and sometimes chocolate chips.
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This past summer I made a blueberry crumble. That was a big hit.
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And the last night we did a casserole in the reflector oven. Scalloped potatoes, tuna fish, dehydrated vegetables, and cheddar cheese.
Jim
 
I forgot we also brought one of those just add water muffin mixes, Mrs Whites I think the brand was. It was blueberry flavor and since we had brought dehydrated blueberries they got rehydrated first in the bottom of the pan then the batter was poured right on top of the berries. We didn’t pack a muffin tin.
We ate well on that canoe trip.
Jim
 
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