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German pancakes

We went camping this past weekend at Susquehanna State Park in Maryland.  We consider this our home campground since it takes less than 30 minutes to get there.  The trip came up quickly, so we didn’t discuss meals.  My wife planned waffles and sausage.  But I didn’t feel like making waffles but found that I had a recipe for German pancakes in my camping cookbook.  We had all the ingredients except lemon juice, so decided to give it a try.

Very hot Dutch oven

  • 1 1/2 cups milk
  • 1 1/2 cups flour
  • 9 eggs
  • 6 Tbsp butter
  • 3/4 tsp salt
  • powdered sugar
  • lemon juice

Start the coals.  This requires a very hot oven, so I completely filled the chimney with coals.  With this many coals, it took almost half an hour for the coals to start. Continue reading

Camp cooking in the dutch oven

Over the weekend, we went camping at Susquehanna State Park.  We camped with some of our friend from the Mid-Atlantic Campers.  We had a good time.  It’s always nice to camp with some of our MAC friends.

I like to document the meals that I cook in the dutch oven.  These 2 items don’t really warrant their own post, but I wanted to get something written up.  I made up some store-bought cinnamon buns in the dutch oven.  I also cooked scrambled eggs in the dutch oven. Continue reading