MOUNTAIN MAN BREAKFAST
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Ingredients: (6 servings)
½ pound bacon (or pre-cooked sausage)
1 medium onion
1 2-pound bag of hash brown potatoes
½ pound grated cheddar
1 dozen eggs
1 small jar salsa (optional)
Procedure:
The following requires 6-9 bottom coals and 12-15 top coals: Pre-heat
Dutch oven. Slice bacon and onion into small pieces and brown in
the bottom of the Dutch oven until onions are clear. Stir in
the hash brown potatoes and cover; remove cover and stir occasionally to
brown and heat potatoes (15-20 minutes). Scramble the eggs
in a separate container and pour the mixture over the hash browns.
Cover and cook until eggs start to set.(10-15 minutes). Sprinkle
grated cheese over egg mixture, cover and continue heating until eggs are
completely set and cheese is melted.
Optional: Cover cheese/egg mixture with a small jar (1 cup) of SALSA.
Cover and cook for an additional 3-5 minutes.
Slice and server like quiche. (Real men don’t eat quiche but I sure
get lots of requests to cook up the Mountain Man.)
Cooking times will vary with the weather and your state of awake
but its almost impossible to mess up.
BREAKFAST PIZZA
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Ingredients:
biscuit dough, pre-made from the store or homemade if you have the
time
eggs
ham, bacon, and sausage, your preference or all three
cheese
Procedure:
Stretch the biscuit dough thin and spread it over the bottom of
the Dutch oven so none of the oven can be seen. Then pour a small layer
of scrambled eggs over the dough. Add your preference of ham, bacon
or sausage or all on top of the eggs if you use bacon pre-cook it.
Spread the cheese over that and cook for 10 to 15 minutes and the Scouts
will eat it up.
EASY BREAKFAST CASSEROLE
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Ingredients:
8 slices bread
2 pounds sausage
16 ounces grated cheddar cheese
12 eggs
1 quart milk
1½ teaspoon dry mustard
1 teaspoon salt
Preparation:
Line a 12” Dutch oven with heavy-duty foil. Lightly grease
the foil with butter. Break up bread into the oven. Crumble
cooked sausage meat over bread and cover with cheese. In a separate
bowl, mix eggs (lightly beaten), milk, dry mustard, and 1 teaspoon salt
(to taste). Pour the egg mixture over the layered bread/sausage/cheese
in the oven, cover, and bake for 35 to 40 minutes, checking occasionally.
The cheese rises to the top, melting into a golden brown crust over a fluffy
layer of eggs, making a super filling camp breakfast for a crowd!
FARM BISCUITS
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Ingredients: (makes 30 biscuits)
3 cups flour
6 teaspoons baking powder
½ teaspoon salt
6 tablespoons cooking oil
1 cup milk
Preparation:
Mix all ingredients. Roll on flat, floured surface, cut out
and place in bottom of oven. Cover with lid and bake about 15 minutes.
MEXICAN ROLL-UPS
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Ingredients: (8 servings)
2 medium potatoes, diced
2 tablespoons olive oil
½ medium bell pepper (red or green), chopped
1 small onion, chopped
salt and pepper, to taste
2 tablespoons chopped cilantro (if you've got it)
2 eggs, beaten
8 to 10 corn tortillas, warmed
½ cup shredded pepper Jack or Cheddar cheese
½ cup salsa
Preparation:
In Dutch oven, add diced potatoes and cover with water. Cook
potatoes until almost done. Remove potatoes and empty water.
Heat oil in oven and add potatoes, bell pepper, onion, salt, pepper and
cilantro. When all is cooked, stir in eggs and heat just a minute
until set. Divide filling into 8 to 10 portions; place each portion
on a warm tortilla, top with cheese and salsa and roll up tortillas.
BACON AND HOMINY SCRAMBLE
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Ingredients: (6 servings)
¼ pound bacon
20 ounces hominy, yellow
6 eggs
½ teaspoon salt
1 dash pepper
Preparation:
Cook the bacon in a Dutch oven until crisp. Remove bacon and
drain all but 2 tablespoons of bacon grease. Drain the can of hominy
and add to the bacon drippings. Fry over medium heat until hominy
is lightly brown. Beat together the eggs, salt and pepper.
Add to hominy and cook, stirring frequently, until eggs are done.
Crumble bacon over the top and serve. Shredded cheese may be melted
over the top.
BEEF HASH WITH GRAVY
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Ingredients: (4 servings)
8 ounces dried beef, cooked (or 8 oz. of any ground meat or
sausage instead)
1 tablespoon dry milk
2 teaspoons Butter Buds®
2 tablespoons dried onions
½ cup mashed potato flakes
4 tablespoons butter or margarine
1 package instant gravy mix
3 cups water
Preparation:
Boil 2 cups water in a Dutch oven. Add the dried beef and
onion, cover, and simmer for 2 to 3 min. Remove from the heat, add
the potatoes, butter buds and dried milk; stir; cover and let sit for a
few minutes. Heat 3 to 4 tablespoons butter or margarine in a frying
pan. Fry the "hash" over medium heat until browned on one side.
Rinse out the pot that the hash was in and boil 1 cup water in it.
Add the instant gravy and cook 1 min. Turn the hash. Pour the gravy
over the top. Brown the side that is down.
BREAKFAST CASSEROLE
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Ingredients: (6 servings)
1 pound sausage links, sliced
5 slices bread
1 cup cheddar cheese, shredded
6 eggs
2 cups milk
1 teaspoon dry mustard
salt to taste
pepper to taste
Preparation:
In a Dutch oven, brown and drain the sausage. Grease 12-inch
Dutch oven. Tear the bread into 1-inch pieces and arrange them evenly
in the pan. Spoon the sausage over the bread and sprinkle with the
shredded cheese. Beat together the eggs, milk, mustard, salt and
pepper and pour it over the mixture in the baking dish. Cover and
refrigerate several hours or overnight, if possible. If a baking
pan is used, place it into a preheated Dutch oven, setting it on several
stones to keep it off of the bottom. Bake at 350-degree F for 30 to 40
minutes or until set. If the recipe is increased allow a little longer
baking time.
Variations:
a. Substitute browned corned beef hash or diced ham for the
browned sausage. Add raw or sautéed onions or mushrooms and/or
chopped, cooked potatoes.
b. For a meatless version, replace the sausage with chopped
raw broccoli or spinach. The spinach version is particularly elegant
if you use a combination of Swiss and feta cheese and add chopped green
onions and a touch of tarragon. Thawed, well-drained frozen spinach
works fine.
c. Different cheeses or breads will give the dish a different
character.
CREAMED DRIED BEEF
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Ingredients: (6 servings)
2 pounds dried beef
4 tablespoons flour
1 cup milk
6 slices bread
Preparation:
In a Dutch oven, sauté chipped dried beef in butter
until it starts to brown and get a little crisp. Add enough flour
to lightly coat the pieces of dried beef. Cook several minutes. Pour
enough milk over meat to just cover it. Bring to boil and lower heat.
Cook gently until milk has thickened and formed a gravy. Pour over
toast to serve.
BREAKFAST IN A PAN
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Ingredients: (serves 2)
3 potatoes, boiled or baked
5 tablespoons oil
1 cup ham cubes
4 eggs
salt
pepper
Preparation:
Slice the potatoes. Melt the margarine in large Dutch oven.
Brown the potato slices and ham pieces, stirring gently. Sprinkle
the potato slices with salt and pepper. In a small bowl or pot, beat
the eggs until they are smooth and yellow. Pour the eggs into oven
with the rest of the ingredients and mix. Stir until the eggs are
set. Serve hot.
BRIGHTEN-UP HOBO BREAKFAST
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Ingredients: (4 servings)
½ pound bacon
4 large potatoes, cooked and shredded
6 eggs
1 medium onion, chopped
1 green pepper, chopped
½ cup milk
3 cups cheese, shredded
salt
black pepper
Preparation:
Fry the bacon in Dutch oven, drain off grease and crumble bacon.
Mix the potatoes, onion and green pepper. Pat into the oven and cook
over low heat until the bottom is crisp & brown. Scramble the
eggs with milk, pepper and salt. Pour over the potatoes. Top
with the cheese and the crumbled bacon. Fry over low heat until the
eggs are cooked, about 10 minutes.
PITA POCKET BREAKFAST
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Ingredients:
1 pound sausage (pork, turkey or ground beef)
1 medium onion, minced
2 tablespoons olive oil, optional
1 clove garlic, minced
1 bell pepper, diced
12 eggs, beaten
1 jar salsa
6 Pita breads, medium
Procedure:
Pre-heat Dutch oven (12 coals on the bottom). Brown sausage
and drain fat, saving 2 tablespoons. Stir in onion, garlic, pepper,
sauté with sausage. Add eggs, sausage fat and cook together
until eggs are scrambled. Spoon into Pita Pockets top with salsa
to taste.
Hints:
Brown sausage and sauté garlic onions and peppers in advance,
refrigerate or freeze in ziploc bags. Add 2 tablespoons of olive oil when
cooking in camp in lieu of sausage fat. This will save time and reduce
the sausage fat that will need to be disposed.
DESSERTS & BREADS
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DUTCH OVEN COBBLER
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Ingredients: (serves 10)
2 #2½ cans fruit or pie mix (peaches, apples, pineapple,
etc.)
1 box white or yellow cake mix
¼ pound butter
Preparation:
Butter inside of Dutch oven (use only ovens with lipped top because
you need to put coals on top of oven). Alternatively, you can
line the inside of the Dutch oven with aluminum foil. Place fruit
in bottom of oven. Cover with cake mix and level it. Cut butter
into about 10 pieces and scatter over cake mix. It is ready to bake.
(Note: If you use peaches, you may need to dispose of about ½
of the liquid. Crushed pineapple has about the right amount of liquid.)
Place about 8 coals under the Dutch oven and about 16-20 coals on
top of oven. Check after 30 minutes. Baking is often complete
at 45 minutes. Final Note: Because the Troop often has 100 or so
people to feed and a substantial use of Dutch ovens, we have in recent
years doubled the recipes in each oven. The number of coals for baking
remains the same. Watch the baking closely since it is easier to
burn the top of the cobbler with the double recipe.
BAKED APPLES
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Ingredients: (8 servings)
8 apples (varieties vary)
1 cup raisins
1 cup sugar or brown sugar
¼ pound butter
¼ teaspoon cinnamon or allspice
water
Preparation:
Wash and core apples. Mix raisins, sugar, and cinnamon in
bowl. Place mixture in cored apple. Add a dab of butter to
top of apple. Place the apples on a wire rack or in a pie tin that
has been raised a little off the bottom of the Dutch oven. Cover Dutch
oven and add coals to top and bottom (if 12” Dutch oven is used,
place 10-12 briquettes on top and 8-10 briquettes on the bottom).
Cook for 15-20 minutes until apples are tender. Let cool 15 minutes
before serving.
APPLE CAKE
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Ingredients:
4 apples (varieties vary), pared, cored and sliced
1 tablespoon butter or margarine
½ cup brown sugar
1/3 cup finely chopped nuts
1 package spice cake mix (you will need to get ingredients
for cake)
Preparation:
Prepare apples. Line the bottom of the Dutch oven with aluminum
foil. Melt butter and pour on bottom of Dutch oven. Spread
brown sugar evenly over the bottom. Arrange apple slices in rows.
Sprinkle with nuts and cherries. Prepare cake mix according to package
directions. Pour over apple slices. Bake, uncovered for 40
to 50 minutes or until tooth pick inserted in center comes out clean.
PINEAPPLE UPSIDE DOWN CAKE
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Ingredients:
16 ounce can sliced pineapple
½ cup brown sugar
1/3 cup butter
1 package yellow cake mix
maraschino cherries (optional)
2 eggs
Preparation:
Preheat Dutch oven and spray with no-stick. Place 1/3 cup
butter and ½ cup brown sugar in oven. Heat to melt butter.
Place pineapple slices (save pineapple juice) in the butter and place halved
cherries in each pineapple center with round side down, and sugar mixture.
(If the oven is too hot the sugar, butter and pineapple will burn). Mix
yellow cake mix as directed on package using pineapple juice as part of
your liquid. Pour batter over pineapple. Cover oven and place
in over 12 coals. Place 9 coals on the lid. Bake, covered for
30 to 40 minutes or until tooth pick inserted in center comes out clean.
Allow to cool for 10 minutes and then invert on foil covered cardboard.
MONKEY BREAD
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Ingredients:
4 cans biscuits
1 cup sugar
1 cup brown sugar
4 tablespoons cinnamon
1 stick oleo
Preparation:
Cut biscuits into quarters. Mix sugar and cinnamon in plastic
bag. Drop quarters into bag and coat well. Place in Dutch oven.
Melt oleo in lid and pour over quarters. Bake 350 degrees F for 35
minutes.
COFFEE CAKE
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Ingredients:
shortening
7 teaspoons sugar
2 teaspoons cinnamon
2 cups plus 1 tablespoon biscuit mix
2 tablespoons butter of margarine
1 egg
¾ cup milk
Preparation:
Preheat Dutch oven. Put 2 tablespoons of shorting in a small
pan and place near the heat to melt. Grease cake pan with melted
shorting. Mix 4 tablespoons sugar, 2 teaspoons cinnamon, 1 tablespoon of
biscuit mix and 2 tablespoons of soft butter together lightly in a small
bowl. This is the topping. In a medium bowl, mix
2 cups biscuit mix and 3 tablespoons sugar. Add egg, ¾ cups
of milk, and s tablespoons of melted shorting and mix thoroughly. Spread
dough in greased cake pan. Sprinkle topping on top of dough.
Place the cake pan on a rack in the preheated Dutch oven. Cook for
25-30 minutes. Check for doneness with a splinter.
DESSERT APPLES
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Ingredients: (6 servings)
6 large apples, cored
3 tablespoons butter
2 tablespoons lemon juice
½ teaspoon cloves, ground
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 cup sugar
1½ cup water
Preparation:
Slice apples into 1/2" thick rings. In a skillet, sauté apples
in butter for 6-8 minutes. Combine water, sugar, cinnamon, cloves,
and lemon juice in a pan. Boil for 5 minutes. Pour over apples.
Cook, uncovered, until apples are tender. Pour into serving
dish. Serve warm or cold.
CORNMEAL BREAD
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Ingredients:
1/3 cup soft shortening
1 cup flour
3 tablespoons sugar
1 tablespoon baking powder
1 cup yellow cornmeal
1 egg
1 cup milk
Preparation:
Preheat oven. Sift the flour, sugar, salt, and baking powder
together. Cut in shorting until you feel no globs of shorting when
you rub it between your fingers. Beat the egg and milk together and add
it to the dry mixture. Mix until just blended. Pour it into
well grease 8x8 pan. Place a rack of a shallow faced pan face down
in the Dutch oven and place the pan with the batter on top. Cover
oven and place over 12 coal and add 9 coals to the lid. Bake for
25 minutes or until done. A sliver of wood inserted in the center
should come out clean.
JALAPENO CORNBREAD
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Ingredients:
2 6-ounce packages cornbread mix (check package for other
ingredients)
1 cup shredded cheddar or Monterey jack cheese
1 cup chopped onion
1/3 to ½ cup finely chopped jalapeno peppers.
Preparation:
Preheat Dutch oven. Mix cornbread per instructions on package.
Add other ingredients and mix well. Place a rack of a shallow faced pan
face down in the Dutch oven and place the pan with the batter on top.
Cover oven and place over 12 coals and add 9 coals to the lid. Bake
for 35 minutes or until done. A sliver of wood inserted in the center
should come out clean.
ANOTHER COBBLER
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Ingredients:
2 28-ounce cans sliced peaches
1½ cup sugar
1 teaspoon cinnamon
½ teaspoon nutmeg
3½ cups biscuit mix
3 tablespoons margarine or butter
2 eggs
1 cup milk
Preparation:
Line Dutch oven with aluminum foil and grease. Preheat oven.
Put in peaches, one can drained and one can not drained. Add
½ cup of biscuit mix, cinnamon, nutmeg and 1 cup of sugar.
Stir, cover and place on 10-12 coals with none on lid. In a
mixing bowl, put in 2 cups biscuit mix. Cut in 3 tablespoons butter.
Add 2 eggs and 1 cup of milk and mix until ingredients are evenly mixed.
Remove lid from oven. The mixture in the oven should be boiling.
Drop dough one spoonful at a time onto the top of the fruit. Recover
oven quickly. Add nine coals to lid. Cook for 30 to 40 minutes
until topping is done. Allow to cool several minutes before serving.
ORANGE OATMEAL CAKE
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Ingredients:
1¼ cups quick rolled oats
1½ cups orange juice (warm)
½ cup margarine
¾ cup brown sugar
2 eggs
2 teaspoons vanilla
1½ cups flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon sweet nutmeg
¼ teaspoon cloves
1 cup raisins
¾ cup sugar
Preparation:
Line Dutch oven with aluminum foil and grease. Preheat oven.
Combine rolled oats and orange juice, let cool. Cream margarine,
sugar, and brown sugar until fluffy. Add eggs and juice mixture alternating.
Shift flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves and add to
first mixture. Add raisins and mix well. Pour into oven.
Bake for 35 minutes or until done.
HAWAIIAN PIE
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Ingredients:
1 stick margarine
½ cup can hopped nuts (pecans, peanuts, almonds)
1 cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vinegar
½ cup coconut
½ cup raisins
1 unbaked pie shell
Preparation:
Combine margarine, sugar and slightly beaten eggs. Add remaining
ingredients. Mix well and pour into pie shell. Place on inverted
pie tin in 350 degree F Dutch oven. Bake for 30 minutes. Let
stand in oven about 5 minutes after removing coals.
GIANT CINNAMON-PECAN RING
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Ingredients: (serves 16)
2 1-pound loaves frozen bread dough
½ cup butter, melted
½ cup sugar
½ cup packed brown sugar
2 teaspoons cinnamon
½ cup chopped pecans
1¼ cup sifted powdered sugar
½ teaspoon vanilla
4 teaspoons milk
cinnamon sticks (optional)
pecan halves (optional)
Preparation:
Lightly grease inside of Dutch oven. On a lightly floured
surface, flatten thawed dough slightly. Cut each loaf into 4 pieces
(total of 8). Form each piece into a rope about 18” long. Brush
each rope on all sides with melted butter. Stir together sugar,
brown sugar, and cinnamon. Place mixture on sheet of foil.
Roll rope in sugar mixture to coat evenly. Shape rope into a coil
in the center of the Dutch oven. Roll another rope in sugar.
Attach securely to end of first rope and continue coil.
Continue coating ropes and attaching to form a 10-11” circle.
Sprinkle any remaining sugar over coil. Sprinkle with chopped pecans.
Cover and let rise in a warm place for about 30-40 minutes Bake at
350 degrees F for 30 minutes or until done. Cover with foil last
15 minutes to prevent over browning if necessary. Cool about 15 minutes
Stir together powdered sugar, vanilla, and enough milk to make a thick
glaze. Spoon over top of cake. Decorate with cinnamon sticks
and pecan halves.
BLUEBERRY MUFFINS
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Ingredients:
2 cups flour
½ cup milk
2/3 cup sugar
½ cup melted butter
1 tablespoon baking powder
¾ cup blueberries
½ teaspoon salt
¼ cup sliced almonds
½ teaspoon nutmeg
1 tablespoon sugar
2 eggs, beaten
Preparation:
Combine dry ingredients. Save 1 tablespoon of mixture.
Combine eggs, milk and butter. Add to dry ingredients. Stir
until well moistened. Toss blueberries with reserved flour mixture.
Stir into batter. Spoon into greased muffin pans. Sprinkle
with almonds and 1 tablespoon sugar. Bake 15 minutes at 400 degrees
F.
MEMPHIS MOLLY
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Ingredients:
1 16-ounce can tart cherries (not pie filling)
1 16-ounce can blueberries (not pie filling)
1 smaller can crushed pineapple
1 small package chopped walnuts
2 boxes Jiffy cake mix
½ stick butter pats
Preparation:
Add ingredients order, spread fruit and nuts in bottom of Dutch
oven. Sprinkle cake mix over all and put butter pats on top.
Cook 20 -30 minutes or until “cake” is done.
CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES
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Ingredients:
2¼ cups all purpose flour
2 eggs
1 cup butter, softened
1 12-ounce semi-sweet morsels
¾ cup sugar
¾ cup brown sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Preparation:
In large bowl, combine butter, sugar, brown sugar, and vanilla extract.
Beat until smooth. Beat in egg. Gradually add flour.
Stir in chocolate chips. Drop onto ungreased pie tin or aluminum
pan. Place on trivet or inverted pie tin in 350 degree F Dutch oven
for about 20 minutes or until done.
APPLE FRITTERS
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Ingredients: (6 servings)
1 egg
¼ teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking powder
½ cup milk
¾ cup flour
1 cup powdered sugar
6 apples (or bananas)
cooking oil
Preparation:
Combine the egg, salt, baking powder, milk and flour to make a batter.
Put at least 1" of vegetable oil in a deep pan and heat until hot.
Dip slices fruit into the batter and deep fry in the oil. Roll in
powdered sugar.
DEVIL’S TOOTH CHEESECAKE
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Ingredients:
Crust:
½ cube melted butter
1 package chocolate cookie wafers (Nabisco), crushed
Mix butter and crumbs and press into a 10-inch Dutch Oven, going
up the sides
at least 1-inch.
Filling:
2 packages 8-ounce cream cheese
1 cup sugar
16 ounce tube ricotta
6 eggs
½ cup sour cream
1½ teaspoons almond flavoring
1½ teaspoons vanilla
12 ounces Nestles chocolate chips
¼ cup butter
½ cup whipping cream
Preparation:
Mix first five ingredients (cream cheese, sugar, ricotta, eggs,
sour cream) until smooth. Melt chips, butter and whipping cream over
low heat until smooth. Add almond flavoring. Pour 1/3 of white
mixture into chocolate mixture and mix well. Pour this into crust.
Add vanilla to remaining white mixture and carefully pour this over the
chocolate layer already in the Dutch oven.
This is very dense and takes about 1¼ hours to bake, so be
patient. It is done when the top cracks and is firm. This dessert
is great warm, but to true chocoholics, it becomes the ultimate after cooling
all night in the cold Idaho mountain air and enjoyed with a cup of morning
coffee.
INDIAN BREAD PUDDING
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Ingredients:
2 cups milk
¼ teaspoon ginger
¼ cup yellow cornmeal
1 egg
2 tablespoons sugar
¼ cup molasses
½ teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon butter
½ teaspoon cinnamon
Preparation:
Place 1½ cups milk in Dutch oven and heat to scalding.
Combine cornmeal, sugar, salt, cinnamon and ginger, add to milk stirring
constantly. Cook 2 minutes. Combine egg, molasses
and butter. Add small amount of the hot milk mixture, slowly.
Add to remaining milk mixture. Stir and cook until thickened, 2-5
minutes. Pour remaining milk OVER (do not stir in!) pudding.
Cook until set, 5 minutes. LET STAND 10 to 15 minutes before serving.
CAMPING TRIP DUMP CAKE
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Ingredients:
¼ pound butter, melt
1 30-ounce can cherry pie filling or apricot or mincemeat
or apple pie filling
1 package yellow cake mix or spice or apple cake mix
¼ cup sugar
Preparation:
Preheat coal. Using 1 tablespoon butter, lightly grease bottom
of Dutch oven. Pour in pie filling. Sprinkle dry cake mix on top
& smooth out. Pour remaining butter evenly over cake. Add sugar
topping if desired. Cover Dutch oven with lid & place directly
in coals. Using tongs, place 11 hot coals on top of Dutch oven,
evenly spaced. Bake 10 minutes; carefully remove cover, check
if pie filling is boiling evenly; if so, replace cover with coals on top,
leave 5 to 10 minutes or until top is browned. Slice and serve.
BANANA DUMP COBBLER
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Ingredients:
1 package yellow cake mix
1 pound brown sugar
½ pound margarine
5 pounds bananas
3 tablespoons white sugar
1 tablespoon cinnamon
Preparation:
Heat Dutch oven and cover with coals for 15 minutes. Slice
bananas lengthwise and set aside. Prepare cake mix, with or without eggs,
and set aside. Remove preheated oven from coals and melt butter in
the bottom. Add brown sugar and mix well with butter. Add bananas
and sauté for three minutes over fire. Pour cake mixture over
bananas. Fold banana-sugar mixture up over cake mixture a few times.
Sprinkle with cinnamon and white sugar. Bake 35 minutes. For
the first 10 minutes use coals on the bottom only. Then add coals
to oven top and continue baking until done.
BROWN BETTY
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Ingredients: (8 servings)
3 cups apples, peeled and cored
1½ cups bread crumbs, Dry and fine
graham cracker crumbs
½ cup butter, melted
1½ cups brown sugar, packed
1½ tablespoons cinnamon
1 teaspoon cloves, ground
½ cup lemon juice
Preparation:
Mix crumbs and butter, grease the sides and bottom of the Dutch
oven, and press the buttered crumbs thickly on the bottom and sides to
form a crust. Mix the sugar and spices together. Peel and core
the apples. Slice them into about ¼ to ½ inch thick
slices. Put a layer of apples on the bottom of the pan, and sprinkle
with brown sugar mixture and a few drops of lemon juice. Continue
adding layers until the apples are used up. Spread a layer of buttered
crumbs on the top, and dot with butter. Cover the oven and bake in
coals for 30 to 40 minutes at 300 degrees F. Traditionally served in bowls
with cream.
Variations:
a. Use almost any fruit; peaches, pears, apricots, cherries or berries
all work.
b. Canned fruits may also be used. Drain them well, reduce the sugar
by half, and mix ¼ cup of the fruit's syrup with ¼ cup lemon
juice rather than using pure lemon juice.
