Coffee Can Campfire Bread Recipes

COFFEE CAN CAMPFIRE BREAD

Steps:

• Also requires 1 small coffee can and 1 large coffee can.
• Grease and coat the small coffee can liberally with the butter or cooking spray.
• Place dough in can and cover with foil. Place in warm area, perhaps on the ashes of the outskirts of a campfire until dough rises, until almost doubled in volume.
• Line the bottom of the large can with about 1 or 2 inchs of pebbles, small rocks or sand to keep the bread from burning on the bottom. Set the small can inside the large one, making sure the sides don't touch, and then insert the large can into the coals, burying about two or three inches of the bottom. Cover the entire top with foil and poke a few holes to allow air. Check by lifting foil in about 40 to 50 minutes. Bread is done when brown on top.
• Feel free to use different kinds of bread dough. I used a pound of wheat dough mixed in my bread machine.

CAMPFIRE BREAD ON A STICK

Steps:

• Combine flour, sugar, oil, yeast, and salt in a large bowl. Add 1 cup of water and start kneading. Continue kneading and adding water until you get an even dough that is very slightly sticky.
• Knead a further 10 minutes, or longer if you have the time and patience. Cover dough and let rise in a warm area until it has doubled in volume, about 1 hour. (The dough can be baked when it has doubled its volume).
• Have a few longish sticks or branches ready, about the thickness of a hotdog. Tear off a fistful of dough, roll it into a ball, then flatten it into a 4-inch round. Roll the dough around the end of the stick, so the edges will overlap.
• Put the dough end of the stick in the campfire. Try to find a hot area that is not actually burning. Cook, turning every so often, until the bread is dark on the outside and slides easily off the stick, about 10 minutes.

CAMPFIRE COFFEE CAN CASSEROLE

Steps:

• Peel the potatoes and carrots with a vegetable peeler, and grate them or cut them into really thin slices.
• Remove the skins from the onions and cut them into really thin slices.
• Make four layers in a clean 3 lb coffee can, starting with the ground beef, add the onions, then the potatoes, then the carrots, sprinkling each layer very lightly with salt and pepper.
• Cover with aluminum foil and set in or on the campfire.
• Cook 30-60 minutes depending on how hot your fire is.