The Boy Scout Planning Guide suggests a  Special Cooking Troop Program Feature for June 2013.  This cooking program feature offers the opportunity to explore cooking with special equipment and techniques, including Dutch oven cooking, foil packs, and camp stoves.

The plans for the Special Cooking  troop program feature can be found in  Volume 3 of Troop Program Features from BSA:

Here is a program feature for a troop that has gone beyond cooking basics. Scouts will learn how to use the Dutch oven and reflector oven and practice cooking with camp stoves, charcoal, and aluminum foil. Since good meals are so important in camp, your patrol leaders’ council will want to use this feature as soon as most Scouts have mastered the basics of cooking.

Special Cooking Programs

Younger scouts can work on their early rank requirements, including menus and cooking, fire safety, and camp stoves.  Older scouts can earn the Cooking merit badge.

The featured activity for this month is a camp banquet where Scouts can share all of the dishes they created using special cooking techniques.

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Easter is almost here, and that means there are plenty of Peeps on the store shelves. Our boys like to eat Peeps “as is”, but they also like to toast them, like marshmallows.

When perfectly toasted, the sugar coating on the Peep caramelizes.  And the marshmallow insides becomes really gooey, just like in a regular toasted marshmallow.

JD is the best Peep toaster in our family. He can roast a Peep to perfection every time. He treats it like an art form.

Slightly stale Peeps work as well as, if not better than, fresh ones. So stock up on a few boxes when they go on sale and take them on your next campout. Scouts of all ages enjoy them.

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Here is another easy recipe for summer camp season. The only real trick to these is to cook them slowly so they cook all the way through. It helps if you don’t wrap them too much also. Just keep the dough in a single layer.

My husband says I made one error in the recipe. He thinks the work “sprinkle” should be changed to “douse”.

Campfire Cinnamon Crescents

Equipment:

• Charcoal or wood fire
• Marshmallow forks

Ingredients

1 package refrigerated crescent rolls

½ cup sugar

1 tablespoon cinnamon

Directions

1. Prepare fire.
2. Combine sugar and cinnamon
3. Separate crescent rolls into triangles
4. Sprinkle both sides rolls with cinnamon sugar
5. Wind the dough around the tines of a marshmallow fork, spearing it at least once so it stays on.
6. Toast slowly over hot coals until golden brown, turning frequently so the dough cooks evenly.
7. Enjoy!

Serves 4.

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