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Cooking Over Coals
Temperature range of hot coals for the next time you are cooking over the fire at your next campout.
Muddy Buddy Popcorn
Simple and fun popcorn to make for your next den meeting, campout, or movie night.
The Best Hard Boiled Eggs
Use this method to make perfectly cooked hard boiled eggs that the shells are easy to take off also.
Canning Jar Oil Lamp Using Old Camp Cooking Oil
What to do with all the oil the is left over from cooking fries and scones at camp?
How To Make Dehydrated Eggs
Make your own dehydrated eggs for your next camping or backpacking trip
Shepard's Pie
When we were kids, mom’s go to dinner was shepard’s pie. The great thing about this meal is that it can easily be cooked in a dutch oven while camping.
Apple Pie Filling From Scratch
Easy, from scratch apple pie filling. Also works great in cobblers.
Kris Kringle's Chocolate Chip Cookies
This recipe delivers some of the best chocolate chip cookies (my personal opinion). When you leave a few out for Santa this year, don’t be surprised when he takes the whole plate and leaves a note requesting more!
Wash Your Hands Before A Meal
This Tiger Tuesday with Thanksgiving in just a couple of days, we take a look at Tiger Bites Req2. and ask the question; Why is it important to wash our hands before a meal?
Simple Roasting Sticks
Check out these steps for making your own roasting sticks. Very budget friendly at only $1.25 for the cost of material per stick.
Simple and Soft Sugar Cookies with Frosting
This is my go-to recipe when we want to make soft sugar cookies.
Easy Sausage Gravy
Here is how to make an easy sausage gravy from scratch. Serve over biscuits, baked potatoes, hash-browns, or Dad’s favorite - toast.
Chocolate Chip Wheat Cookies
Flaky and soft whole wheat chocolate chip cookies. Make a double batch to replace the cookies you ate directly off the pan!
Peach Cobbler Supreme
Here is a recipe that will make the camp fire program a hit with dessert. This dish is also great to adapt and cook in the oven.
Fruit Salad... Yummy, Yummy!
Simple and yummy fruit salad for your Webelos to make for their Cast Iron Chef adventure
Simple and Delicious Strawberry Syrup
One of the family’s favorites was this simple three ingredient strawberry syrup for your pancakes, waffles, or french toast that only takes about 5 minutes to make.
Perfect Snickerdoodles
This recipe yields 48 soft and delicious snickerdoodles, perfect for cracker-barrel at your next activity .
Nine Different Types of Fires
Found on page 112 of the 1980 copy of the Boy Scout Handbook: Here are nine different types of fire lay.
Materials For Fire
Throughout the years, many items change within the different printings of the handbooks, manuals, merit badge books, and fieldbooks. One topic stays constant is the three materials you need to make fire.