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I’d like to share a cooking experiment I tried during a camping trip to Acadia NP my wife and I took this week. I was inspired by the link Charles Heath provided in the DM-X thread and wanted to try it in “controlled” circumstances before doing so next week at DM.
Prior to us leaving this past Tuesday, I prepared two baggies of dry ingredients. One of flour, salt and sugar; the other of corn meal, flour, salt and sugar; corn was picked up on the way. It would be enough for just one shot of each.
Once I had a fire going Wed evening, I commenced to extract the corn from the shuck based on the first excerpt in the article. I was not successful at all, breaking the corn cobs, ( had tried it at home last week with the same results) so by default, I went with the second excerpt with the pealed husks.
I added water to each baggie and mixed, removing the dough/corn meal balls and placing them in their own husk. I tied the husks with some jute cord and buried them in the coals and commenced cooking our “regular” meal as my In-Laws were coming to our site for dinner.
30 minutes later, I pulled the husks from the coals, and extracted the anticipated morsels. What I found was that the flour only mixture had not fully cooked after 30 minutes and I hadn’t saved a husk for this situation. (In the field, I’d put it in the canteen half at that point) The corn meal recipe came out fully cooked, but I think I would give it another 5 minutes. That one got sliced up and shared around – rather bland (some molasses or sorghum in the mix would be good…), but as my Father-In-Law said “That’ll stick to your ribs…”
All in all, it was a worthwhile experiment to have a starting point in the corn-infested environment Charles is promising. I documented the experiment with a few photos which are attached below.
Y.O.S.,
Prior to us leaving this past Tuesday, I prepared two baggies of dry ingredients. One of flour, salt and sugar; the other of corn meal, flour, salt and sugar; corn was picked up on the way. It would be enough for just one shot of each.
Once I had a fire going Wed evening, I commenced to extract the corn from the shuck based on the first excerpt in the article. I was not successful at all, breaking the corn cobs, ( had tried it at home last week with the same results) so by default, I went with the second excerpt with the pealed husks.
I added water to each baggie and mixed, removing the dough/corn meal balls and placing them in their own husk. I tied the husks with some jute cord and buried them in the coals and commenced cooking our “regular” meal as my In-Laws were coming to our site for dinner.
30 minutes later, I pulled the husks from the coals, and extracted the anticipated morsels. What I found was that the flour only mixture had not fully cooked after 30 minutes and I hadn’t saved a husk for this situation. (In the field, I’d put it in the canteen half at that point) The corn meal recipe came out fully cooked, but I think I would give it another 5 minutes. That one got sliced up and shared around – rather bland (some molasses or sorghum in the mix would be good…), but as my Father-In-Law said “That’ll stick to your ribs…”
All in all, it was a worthwhile experiment to have a starting point in the corn-infested environment Charles is promising. I documented the experiment with a few photos which are attached below.
Y.O.S.,
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