CampRecipes Classic Archive
This recipe is part of the CampRecipes Classic Recipe Archive. It was originally submitted to the CampRecipes community and is preserved as historical outdoor cooking content. Some formatting, ingredient wording, or cooking guidance may reflect the original submission.
Because these are preserved vintage recipes, they have not been reviewed for modern allergen labeling, nutrition accuracy, food-safety guidance, or current outdoor-cooking best practices. Please review the ingredients carefully, use safe food handling, and adapt the recipe as needed for your equipment, location, dietary needs, and current fire restrictions.
Original Date: 2005-05-05
Serves: any
Prep Time: 60m+
Difficulty: average
Backpacking: No
Ingredients
- MEAT (HAMB Pattie, Steak-some kind of beef)
- Potato (1 large per person)
- Carrot (as much as you like)
- Onion
- Bell Pepper
- Butter
- Salt & Pepper
Instructions
Equipment: Tin Foil (preferably heavy duty), heavy leather gloves, shovel, large bed of hot coals.
Wash and peel potatos (or leave skin on) and carrots. Slice potatos, carrots, onion and pepper thinly.
Tear off large a piece of tin foil (around 2 foot). Shiney side in, place layer of potato to cover bottom of meat. Put meat on top, salt and pepper, onion and pepper then add layer of carrots and more potatos. Add two large pats of butter. Fold sides of foil to make large envelope, Fold edges twice to seal top, then roll ends right up to the contents. Use shovel to clear a little area in hot coals leaving a few.
With gloves, place food package in space and cover with hot coals all over. In about 30 minutes (medium size package) or 45 minutes (large man size package) use shovel to carefully remove from fire. Use gloves to shake ash from package and open. Steam from package could burn w/out gloves. Shape tin foil into plate or pour contents on to separate plate.
Comment: This has been a regular for my Troop here in Texas. The problem with thin foil is that it can break open when removing from fire. HD foil stays in one piece unless you punch it with the shovel, then you have to settle the argument between the Scouts. Enjoy.
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