12V Camping Stove Scones
This note represents a great achievement for someone who'd
far rather work out differential equations than
cook , but
I have finally got some mediocre scones made in a fashion
suitable for rougher camping trips.
We only carry small lightweight and preferably muliple
use items and as such even a little cheap 12v stove has
to justify itself.
Previously we made our stove more effective (see post 39429) but it
still needed to do more.
Cooking stuff needs to be simple when we are bush, so to make scones
we began with a pre-mixed
scone mix which is easy to store
and requires nothing but some long life milk - so nothing needs
to be fridged.
Ours is W.A. anchor brand - the only one at our
IGA supermarket and it comes
in pumpkin, low fat, or with sultanas varieties.
STEPS
1/ first switch on stove so it warms up.
2/ Open 200ml uht milk carton.
3/ Empty packet
scone mix and milk into 2lt plastic ice cream container.
4/ Mix for a minute
5/ Get out plastic breadboard and sprinkle flour onto it and whack sticky mix on to it.
6/ You do some rough kneeding for another minute and then belt or roll out some of the mix on the breadboard so that its about 20mm thick and cut out circles of the stuff about 50mm diameter. These are the scones.
7/ Makes about 10 in total and you can fit 5 into little oven at once.
8/ Leave in for about 15 minutes with lid closed but not locked so that excess moisture can escape.
Thats it, their done - they don't rise quite as much as in a proper oven as temp is
only 150c but they sure disappear fast with Blackberry jam and a spray can cream used as topping.
P.S. This process can even be done driving (but not if your driving!) and only part to
watch out for is getting some flour on your clothes from when cutting them out.
With care there is almost no washing up required that can't be done with paper towel.
Robin Miller