Backwoods Cooking

Just like our new Chief Scout, we cook over open fires. If we've whetted your appetite, you might like to download the following Backwoods Cooking recipe booklet, courtesy of the 9th Barking & Dagenham. Click here.

• Our new Chief Scout

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  Bear Grylls stops for another tasty snack on his adventures - now get ready to watch Swanley Scouts in action

  

• Preparation

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  Getting set for lamb hotpot - secret is to chop ingredients really small

  

• Getting started

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  Main course ingredients now ready

  

• Sausage in rolls

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  Take one sausage, impail on a stick, cook in the embers, place in a bread roll. Lovely.

  

• Toasties

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  Ham & Cheese toastie cooked in foil

  

• Firelighting

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  Getting started with the fire

  

• Hell's kitchen

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  Smoke extractor fan leaves a little to be desired

  

• Fire lighting

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  Nicely underway now

  

• Wrapping the fish

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  Take one newspaper, soak thoroughly and wrap around a trout

  

• I'm sure it winked at me...

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  "And if you think for one minute that I am going to eat this..."

  

• Cooked to perfection

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  My compliments to the chef (me!)

  

• Cooking time - 8 minutes

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  Sausage sizzle - lovely

  

• Fishy tales

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  Enjoying the fish on one hand - but preferring the burger in the other hand. Our vesion of surf & turf

  

• Unwrapping his dessert

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  Banana with chooclate, wrapped in foil and cooked

  

• Preparing for pudding

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  Putting bananas onto sticks

  

• Leave it to cool

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  Just a tad too hot to eat

  

• Recipe

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  Take a banana and add chocolate drops

  

• Recipe - 2

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  Or cook in foil

  

• Too many cooks?

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  Can't beat cooking your own food around the fire

  

• Washing up

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  Well, someone has to do it

  

• Embers

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  Just perfect for cooking

  

• Fish course

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  Enjoying the fish wrapped in newspaper

  

• Cooking their toasties

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  Delicious ham & cheese toasted sandwiches

  

• Lamb hotpot

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  Stewing nicely

  

• Communal cooking

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  Good food, good company - what more could you ask for?

  

• Outdoors cooking Swanley style

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