[Sca-cooks] oatmeal/hot cereal?

[UlfR]

Anne-Marie Rousseau <dailleurs at liripipe.com> [2006.06.22] wrote:
> has anyone had success making oatmeal/hot cereal on the fire? I'm
> hoping to find a method that involves real oats (not the rolled kind,
> etc) that I can start a fire, set it burbling and ignore for a bit
> while I chop up dried fruit, etc

Sure, lots of times (as in every morning).

The trick i that you can not treat a fire as an electric stove: if it is
on the fire you need to keep an eye on it. My solution is to hang the
pot next to the fire, not over it, which works the same as the back of
the woodstove.

> 1. what kind of oats/grains did you use?

Rolled oats (which gets better if you add them to boiling instead of
cold water), rolled rye, varieos multi-grain mixes, barley. My gang
prefers the barley, boiled with some stock and with fresh soft cheese
added afterwards.

> 2. what were your favorite add ins?

A stock-cube (or the real thing) or apple pieces. Don't forget the
porridge for real men (gruel enforced) in Cury on Inglish; good stuff,
and one day I will figure out how to serve it to the masses.

Fresh blueberries makes for a colorfull porridge, not to everyones
liking.

> bascially I'm looking for an easy breakfast dish to do during a
> weeklong re- enactment event. the rest of camp may be happy living off
> smoked fish, hard boiled eggs and such but me, I needs me some fiber

Make some sort of porridge. Mix leftover with flour and pan-fry into
bread. Or just pan-fry sourdough bread over the campfire. Either thin
cakes (think naan or somesuch), or thicker on a skillet propped up
facing the flames. If you are carefull you can bake in a pot next to
the fire, just keep turning it to bake the bread evenly. No period
documentation for the latter two techniques, but they work.

UlfR

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UlfR Ketilson                               ulfr at hunter-gatherer.org
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