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Cooking!
The unofficial 13th point of the Scout Law is: "A scout is HUNGRY!" So here you will find recipes (camping and home). We will also post cooking related files and tips.
Recipes, Cook Books and Helps.
  Troop 18 Recipe Book: Mr. Jens, with the help of Mr. Patrick put together this cookbook of recipes. Here it is in PDF for your use.
  Recipe Book (PDF)
Recipes 1: A five page handout with camping recipes. Two pages use cookware, three pages are foil cooking
Recipes 1 (PDF)
Food Journals of Lewis and Clark: These recipes are excerpts from "The Food Journals of Lewis and Clark". They are adapted for modern cooking but give insight on what was cooked on one of the most famous "camping trips".
Lewis and Clark Recipes
Aluminum Cooking Utensil: This is a one page handout showing how to make a useful cooking utensil from nothing but foil.
  Aluminum Utensil (PDF)
  Cooking Hints: Four pages of cooking hints from another troop.  Covers cooking, cleaning, recipes, preparation and packing.
  Cooking Hints (PDF)
  Dutch Oven: Five pages of Dutch oven recipes and a couple of hints. (PDF)
  Dutch Oven (PDF)
  Foil Seal: How to seal food in foil for cooking on the fire.
  Foil Seal (PDF)
  Fun with DO: 174 pages of Dutch Oven information. Covers selecting a DO, building your coals, temperature  control, cleaning and LOTS of recipes.
  Fun with DO (PDF)
  OLSI Cooking Handout: This is the five page hand out Mr. Michael created for adult leaders when he teaches cooking at Outdoor Leader Skills Instruction Course. It covers measurements (even with out utensils), can sizes, substitutions, methods to check doneness in a DO and DO temperature  control.
  OLSI Cooking Handout (PDF)
 
Knife Skills Videos:
  A Guide to Improving Your Knife Skills

 

  Men's Health Short Order Cook: Knife Skills 101
  Knife Techniques from Burn Fat
  Jamie on knife skills, 30-Minute Meals
  Parts of the Knife
 
Other Cooking Skills Videos:
How to Take Proper Measurements
  How to Cut Apart a Whole Chicken
  Top 5 Food Preparation Techniques from Burnt Fats