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Author Sarah Kirkconnell ( Trailcooking.com) has revised and expanded her excellent book Freezer Bag Cooking with the addition of many, many great new recipes.
Freezer bag cooking is a simple technique that is perfect for Scouts, hot water is added to dry ingredients in freezer bag much like one adds hot water to a prepackaged freeze-dried meal. (No, this is not like boiling an omelet in a bag (don’t) and there are no BPA worries with these techniques.) Directions are included in many of the recipes for adapting them to an insulated mug, or as a one-pot meal.
Some of the recipes require preparation at home, but my favorites are the ones where you throw the ingredients in a bag and head out on your camping or backpacking trip.
Two of my favorite freezer bag recipes (the brownies are truly amazing).
Cranberry Chicken Rice (lower sodium):
In a quart freezer bag put:
1 cup instant rice
1 Tsp. Chicken bullion (low sodium)
1/4 Tsp. salt, if desired
1/2 Tsp. granulated garlic
1 Tsp. Parsley
1 Tsp. Dried Onion
2 Tbl. Dried veggie flakes or freeze dried mixed vegetables
2 Tbl.+2 Tsp. Craisins
Also take a 3-5 oz. can of chicken with you.
Add the chicken and it’s liquid into the freezer bag, and 1 1/4 cups boiling water. Stir well and put into a cozy for 10 minutes. Serves 1.
Brownies
In a quart freezer bag put:
1 package graham crackers, reduced to crumbs.
1/4 cup broken pecans (toast them first for best results)
2 Tbsp powdered sugar.
In another bag put:
3 oz (about 3/4 cup) chocolate chips and
3 Tbsp powdered milk.
In camp: Add 1/4 cup water to the chocolate. Bring a pot of water to a boil and dip the bag to melt the chocolate (the higher-quality the chocolate, the better it melts and the better it tastes). When melted, add the graham cracker crumbs and knead to mix thoroughly. How you eat it is up to you. You can let it cool and break into chunks. Serves 4-8.
Most of the ingredients can be found in your local grocery store, but you’ll expand your menu significantly using some of the vendors listed in the book (Sarah notes that Amazon has a lot of the less common ingredients too.)
Freezer Bag Cooking; Adventure Ready Recipes Kindle Edition (print edition coming soon!)
Just stumbled onto your site. AWESOME! Small world, I spent 3 weeks at Camp Horseshoe during my Scouting days. Best time of my life.