Sunday, 13 July 2014

Campfire cooking

Hello sorry I haven't blogged in a while I just haven't got round to it (plus every time I try to go on the internet our broadband crashes!), with year 6 SATS and half term and things (if you have recently suffered from GCSEs I wish you luck in your results). Anyway, for the first weekend of half term I went camping with my mum, dad,  two sisters, aunt, uncle and four year old cousin near the Oxfordshire Ridgeway. 

The first night I hollowed out oranges and filled them with muffin mixture, I placed them in the hot ashes of a previous campfire. On the recipe I followed, it said that they will take just 20-25 minutes but they weren't half done after a whole hour so I put them in the ashes of a small barbecue and left them overnight.

My uncle with my sister and cousin purposely falling off their chairs!
 With a bit more cooking in the morning they were scrumptious for breakfast! The next evening we had a lot of toasted marshmallows delicious! The same evening I made a batch of chapati dough and left to prove overnight. 


The next day I lit this thing called a  Cobb (it is a low metal cylinder with a grey disc made from coconut shells inside that you light with a blowtorch). Then I rolled out about 10 chapatis and cooked them one at a time on a metal plate above the Cobb. We ate them like pancakes full of golden syrup and crystallised ginger - they were unbelievably tasty (miles better than pancakes)!

Look how red the sun made my hair go!

I hope you are all enjoying the summer!















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