How to make biscuits over an open fire or stove top.

[Magus]

A Dutch oven is great, but maybe you don't have one, this CAN be done in tinfoil, I have, but it's messy and requires extra thick dough.
1_ pre-heat your pan until a drop of oil sizzles at the touch and remove from heat.
2_Stir in your batter, wait five minutes, and return to low heat.
3_ wait ten minutes or until you see bubbles on the top of the pone.
4_Flip it. Give it five minutes and remove from heat, paint on the butter and cover for ten minutes.

In tinfoil
1_Grease up your tinfoil and make a container.
2_ Carefully spoon in your dough.
3_Carefully seal your foil and place over medium heat and rotate often.
4_After ten minutes, flip your pouch over, give it at least five minutes, preferably more, and flip it back. then remove it from the heat and let sit ten minutes, the residual heat will finish making it.

 

[Magus]

And just because I love you guys... fried cookies!
Cut out your cookies and dust them with a 50/50 flour and sugar mix.
Drop them into a pan greased with butter over medium heat for five minutes.
then flip.

 

[Cabin Fever]

Never bake using an open fire, it WILL burn. Only use campfire coals.

Here is another way of making biscuit (bread) using a campfire where you don't need a Dutch oven or tinfoil.

 

[Magpie]

They sound like welsh cakes @Magus
https://www.visitwales.com/things-d...od-and-recipes/traditional-welsh-cakes-recipe

 

[Canon29]

Fwiw, You can cook over an open flame- you just gotta hold em furthur away, coals are definitely easier though.

 

[Cabin Fever]

Fwiw, You can cook over an open flame- you just gotta hold em furthur away, coals are definitely easier though.

Try holding a Dutch oven further away.

 

[Canon29]

Try holding a Dutch oven further away.

 

[Cabin Fever]

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The DO in the photo is being used as a pot, not as an oven. And, that pot better have a lot of water in it, if not and once that freshly started fire gets going, whatever is inside of it will burn.

 

[Canon29]

The DO in the photo is being used as a pot, not as an oven. And, that pot better have a lot of water in it, if not and once that freshly started fire gets going, whatever is inside of it will burn.

That's all dependent on the heat intensity/range. It's not hard to place some burning material on top regardless of position. A benefit of DO cooking over an open flame is to be able to benefit from the heat thrown while also cookin' a meal.

A DO wasn't the only cooking method mentioned nor did I mean for my comment to refrence that exclusively.

I'm was more refrencing cooking breads/bannock via sticks, tbh.

I cook over open flame more often than not out in the field, it takes a little more finess but allows me to save time and energy vs. Building up proper coals. Results vary, but are acceptable.

 

[Cabin Fever]

That's all dependent on the heat intensity/range. It's not hard to place some burning material on top regardless of position. A benefit of DO cooking over an open flame is to be able to benefit from the heat thrown while also cookin' a meal.

A DO wasn't the only cooking method mentioned nor did I mean for my comment to refrence that exclusively.

I'm was more refrencing cooking breads/bannock via sticks, tbh.

I cook over open flame more often than not out in the field, it takes a little more finess but allows me to save time and energy vs. Building up proper coals. Results vary, but are acceptable.

Gotcha. I often times build a warming fire with oak. When coals are available, I use an ET to remove coals to a spot a couple feet away from the warming campfire, to cook from. If it is windy, the cooking spot will be a shallow hole in the ground. Then, I'll add more wood to the warming fire. So then I have a fire to warm by, and a coal filled spot to cook on. I suppose my way is a little more putzy.

 

[Canon29]

Gotcha. I often times build a warming fire with oak. When coals are available, I use an ET to remove coals to a spot a couple feet away from the warming campfire, to cook from. If it is windy, the cooking spot will be a shallow hole in the ground. Then, I'll add more wood to the warming fire. So then I have a fire to warm by, and a coal filled spot to cook on. I suppose my way is a little more putzy.

If I'm getting fancy or I have the time I'll usually burn down to coals, it definitely grants better/more consistent results. Infact from a survival standpoint if you have limited food- in many circumstances you shouldnt risk ruining it by taking the greater risk of burning it over an open flame

 

[Magus]

Never bake using an open fire, it WILL burn. Only use campfire coals.

Here is another way of making biscuit (bread) using a campfire where you don't need a Dutch oven or tinfoil.

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You just have to watch what you're doing.