Flat Bread

Shared by Shelley Lauzon of Cornwall, ON Canada

Serves 4-6

Ingredients:

  • 2 ½ Cups Flour
  • 1 Package Dry Yeast
  • 1 tsp sugar
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 4 oz Cooking Oil

At Home:

Pack one ziplock bag with 1 tsp sugar and 1 package dry yeast (unopened). In another ziplock bag pack 1 tsp salt. Pack 2 ½ cups flour in large ziplock. Pack cooking oil in a Nalgene or leak proof container.

On the Trail:

Warm up 1 cup of water. Add ½ cup of warm water to sugar baggie and then gently sprinkle in the yeast package. Try not to make any lumps. Let stand 10 minutes. Add ½ cup of warm water to salt baggie. In pot or large baggie, mix the sugar and salt water with 1 cup of the flour and mix well. Add the remaining flour and knead 10 minutes. Divide into 6 portions and flatten into ½ inch thick circles using clean water bottle. Fry in shallow pan of oil until golden.

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Stick Bread

Shared by Scott H. of Colorado Springs, CO

Scott makes stick bread with Bisquick wrapped around the end of a stick and cooks it over a campfire.

Serves 2-4

At Home:

Pack 1 or 2 cups Bisquick in a Ziploc bag.

On the Trail:

Add water to Bisquick and mix until you form a dry dough ball. Place doughball over the end of a stick. Squeeze dough around the stick keeping it as even as possible. Cook over open fire until golden in color. Remove from stick, it should form a cup. Fill with jelly or other fillings.

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