SC - Camp baking

pat fee lcatherinemc at hotmail.com
Wed Mar 22 09:14:08 PST 2000


  I have one of these.  It does bread ect well.  My questions is how do you 
get bread dough to raise during the night or early morn hours in order to 
have fresh bread and cinnamon  rolls for breakfast.  It's always too cold 
where we camp.

  Lady Katherine McGuire

>From: Christine A Seelye-King <mermayde at juno.com>
>Reply-To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
>To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
>Subject: Re: SC - Camp baking
>Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 01:12:13 -0500
>
>I have the version of the Coleman camp oven that sits on top of your heat
>source, presumably your Coleman camp stove.  It works very well, but as
>Lainie said, it can be tough to regulate the temperature.  The first year
>I used one, I was catering the Queen's Tea at Pennsic, and was baking
>scones in camp the day after a huge rainstorm.  I found that I could
>drape my wet towels around the oven, which dried them out, while at the
>same time helping to regulate the oven temp, and kept the wind from
>blowing the heat away.  It worked so well, that I was finished drying my
>laundry well before I was finished baking, so I actually ended up
>re-wetting some towels to do the rest!  My oven just came home from Gulf
>Wars, this is the second year it has gone, and I have never been!
>I have never heard of the kind of oven Huette describes, but love the one
>I have that folds about 2 inches flat.
>Christianna
>
>On Mon, 20 Mar 2000 22:02:26 -0500 "Robin Carroll-Mann" <harper at idt.net>
>writes:
> > I'm thinking of getting a Coleman oven as an accessory to my stove.
> > Has anyone used this?  Does it do a decent job, especially on bread?
> >
> > (Yes, I know that one can bake in a firepit with a Dutch oven, etc.,
> > but
> > that doesn't really work for me.)
> >
> >
> > Lady Brighid ni Chiarain
>
>
>I have a Coleman oven that I recently bought from a
>church white elephant sale.  It cost me $5.  All that
>I have done with it has been to turn is on to see if
>it worked.  I haven't baked with it yet.  But it
>appears to me to be more like the broiler in a
>conventional oven.  The flame comes from the top.  Not
>below.  It also has a "burner" on the top, which you
>can use to heat stuff in pots, because it uses the
>escaping heat from the oven.  I now have to buy a full
>propane bottle to find out how long one bottle will
>last, and then I will try to bake something in it.
>
>Huette
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