Gould Lake
Winter Campfire
Cookbook
Winter Adventure Checklist
As a food group you will have to:
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Decide on a menu that pleases the whole group and keeps garbage to a minimum.
Designate food, equipment and preparation responsibilities.
Be self-sufficient.
Be prepared to share lunchtime tasks such as :
 pre-trip preparation
 collecting firewood
 maintaining the fire
 cooking food
 clean-up
 garbage collection
 carrying everything back
Always pre-cook meat and bring water for cooking if you need it.
Pop and juice containers don’t hold enough liquid for the whole day and make extra garbage.
Popcorn doesn’t work well on the fires we make.
Everyone should have extra garbage or plastic grocery bags. They are useful for garbage or for
keeping your feet dry.
You will be carry all garbage and uneaten food back home so the less garbage you create the lighter
your packs will be.
Helpful Hints
Food and Equipment
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Bring your own pots and pans – we do not provide these
Use pots with metal handles (or ones that won’t burn or melt!)
Bring re-useable knives/forks/spoons
Do not bring lighters. Gould Lake staff will have these.
Cold weather makes you hungry and you must eat to stay warm! Bring more food than you
normally eat and have a good breakfast before you arrive.
• Chocolate and sweets give you energy but you need other nutrients to keep warm and healthy.
• Natural sweets like raisins, dates and other fruit are healthier than chocolate.
• It’s easy to get de-hydrated. You must drink lots of water.
• Remember oil or margarine if you are frying food.
• Rub dish soap on the outside of your pots and pans to make washing the black off them much
easier.
• Bring several plastic bags to cover blackened cooking pots or pans.
• Bring a garbage bag for each person.
• Pack all of your clothes, food etc. inside a back pack. Don’t tie things on the outside of your pack
or carry them in your hand.
Contents
Main Dishes........................................ pg. 1
Desserts................................................pg. 4
Trail Snacks......................................... pg. 5
RECIPE DIFFICULTY
Adventurous: These recipes are the tastiest, most rewarding and most
challenging to make from scratch.
Satisfying: These recipes will fill you up. They are tasty and if you try them you
will surely be successful.
Campfire Favourites: These are very simple recipes that are not challenging.
These recipes are for groups of 4, unless otherwise stated.
Adventurous Main Dishes
Kabobs
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Pre-cooked, cubed beef/chicken/ham
Quartered tomatoes or cherry tomatoes
Mushrooms
Green peppers
Onion
Salt, pepper, spices
Before the trip, cut meat and vegetables
into one-inch pieces. Pre-cook the meat.
Skewer meat and vegetables on wooden or
metal skewers. Sprinkle spices over
kabobs and wrap in foil. Put in a bag so
they don’t leak.
Lay foil covered kabobs on fire to cook and
rotate occasionally.
Bundle Supper For One
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1/4 lb pre-cooked lean ground beef
½ thinly sliced carrot
½ sliced green pepper
Several slices of cheese
2 slices of onion
Salt, pepper
1 Tbsp water
Add salt and pepper to beef. Shape into
meatball patties. Pre-cook in a frying pan
at home.
Place ingredients on 40cm sheet of tin foil,
alternating meat, vegetables and cheese.
Add water. Seal packet. Place in fire and
cook about 10 minutes per side.
Stir Fry
• 1 frying pan
• ½ lb. Pre-cooked cubed beef/chicken/
ham/tofu
• 1 green pepper, chopped
• 3 carrots, chopped
• 2 onions, diced
• 3 celery stalks, chopped
• 1 cup mushrooms, sliced
• 2 cups bean sprouts
• Oil (olive oil is best for your health)
• Soya sauce
Fry meat in oil and some soya sauce at
home.
Over the fire add all the vegetables except
sprouts and more soya sauce. When all
vegetables are soft, add sprouts and cook
for 3 more minutes.
Chili
• 1 lb. Pre-cooked lean ground beef (or 1
cup Bulgar and 1 cup water)
• 1 chopped onion
• 1 can tomatoes
• 1 can kidney, red or baked beans
• 1-3 tsp. chili powder
• salt, pepper
Fry Beef and onion in a pot. Add
everything else and simmer until cooked.
If using Bulgar, fry onions alone in
margarine, then add everything else.
Note: Because of limited time this meal
should be cooked at home and warmed on
the campfire.
Satisfying Main Dishes
Mixed Vegetables
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1 onion cut in chunks or rings
1 green pepper cut in chunks
1 potato finely chopped (optional)
1 carrot, chopped
Tofu, cubed
2 or 3 tsp. butter or margarine
1/4 cup cashews or peanuts (optional)
Soya sauce, salt, pepper, etc.
At home, cut up vegetables, mix with nuts
and tofu, and put each serving on a 40cm
sheet of tin foil. Add soya sauce and
seasoning and top with butter and cheese.
Wrap and seal the tin foil.
Potato Scramble
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8 slices of pre-cooked bacon
4 potatoes, pre-cooked and diced
1 small onion, diced
1/4tsp salt, pinch of pepper
6 eggs beaten
40ml milk
Fry bacon and cook potatoes at home.
On the fire, Reheat bacon in a frying pan.
Add potatoes, onions and seasoning. Cook
and stir until light brown. Beat eggs and
milk in a bowl. Pour over potato mix and
cook until eggs thicken.
Place on fire and cook for 10 -15 minutes.
Tortillas
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1 frying pan
1 lb. Pre-cooked lean ground beef
1 pkg taco spices
1 small can tomato paste
6 soft taco shells or pita breads (hard
taco shells leave a big mess on the
forest floor)
• 3/4 cup shredded cheddar cheese
• 1 cup finely chopped lettuce
• ½ cup chopped tomatoes
At home, cook and drain beef, shred and
chop cheese, lettuce and tomatoes and
store in separate containers.
On the fire, reheat meat, add spices and
tomato paste. Fill pitas or taco shells
halfway with meat and then add cheese,
lettuce and tomatoes.
Sloppy Joes
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1 frying pan
1 ½ lbs. Pre-cooked lean ground beef
2 small onions, chopped
6 celery stalks, chopped
1 pkg beef gravy mix or taco spices
1/4 cup ketchup
Salt, pepper etc.
6-8 buns, rolls or pita bread.
At home, cook and drain beef.
On the fire, fry meat with onions and
celery and add gravy mix or spices and
ketchup. Serve over rolls, buns or in pita
bread. Don’t make it too runny!
Campfire Favourite Main Dishes
Grilled Cheese Sandwiches
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bread
cheese
margarine
ketchup, relish, mustard etc.
Butter 2 slices of bread. Thinly slice cheese
and place between unbuttered sides of
bread. Fry in frying pan until brown on
both sides.
Note: this is a light meal and will take a lot
of bread to fill you up!
Hot Dogs
• wieners (beef, chicken, vegetarian) or
precooked sausages
• buns
• ketchup, relish, mustard etc.
• chopped onion
• thin slices of cheese.
Skewer hotdogs on thin sticks. Roast over
coals until hotdogs bubble and split. Toast
buns. Assemble and eat.
Hamburgers
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1 lb. pre-cooked lean ground beef.
1 small chopped onion
1 egg of 1/4 cup bread crumbs
4 buns
ketchup, mustard, relish etc.
Before the trip, mix beef, onion and egg or
crumbs in a bowl. Form into patties. Fry
the hamburgers until brown all the way
through, at home.
On the fire, reheat the burgers and toast
the buns.
Baked Potatoes
At home, pre-cook potatoes in oven until
soft inside. Wrap in foil.
On the fire, lay potatoes in the fire until
warmed through. Serve with butter, sour
cream, bacon bits and/or grated cheese.
Desserts
S’mores
• Graham crackers
• Marshmallows
• Chocolate chips or squares
Peanut Butter Wraps
• Tortillas
• Peanut butter
• Chocolate chips
Cook marshmallows over fire until golden
brown. Make a sandwich out of
marshmallows and chocolate and 2
graham crackers.
Coat one side of the tortilla with peanut
butter and sprinkle with chocolate chips.
Roll up the wrap and wrap in tin foil and
put in the fire for a couple of minutes.
Baked Apples
Banana Boats
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Apples
Brown sugar
Cinnamon
Raisins
Wash the apples and remove the core so
the apple forms a cup. Fill the hole with
1tsp sugar, ½ tsp cinnamon and raisins all
mixed together. Wrap in Buttered foil and
bake in coals for 20 minutes.
• 1 banana per person
• Marshmallows
• Chocolate chips or squares
Split banana lengthwise leaving the peel.
Fill middle with marshmallows and
chocolate (alternating). Wrap in foil and
bake in fire until soft.
Bannock Bread
Bannock is the traditional bread that native Canadians, trappers and pioneers cooked over
an open fire. It’s as much fun to cook as it is to eat.
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5 cups flour
2 Tbsp baking powder
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. sugar
2/3 cups shortening
2/3 cups milk powder
Raisins, dried fruit, nuts (optional)
Water
Combine all ingredients and add enough water to make dough. Wrap dough thinly
around a stick. Roast over coals until golden brown. The recipe makes a lot of dough.
(Can also be fried as an oversized pancake in a frying pan).
Trail Snacks
(to be prepared at home)
GORP - Good Old Raisins and Peanuts
Add and mix equal amounts of any of the
following in a reusable bag:
Peanuts
Raisins
Smarties
Chocolate chips
Dried fruit
Almonds
Banana flakes
Cashews
Granola
Coconut flakes
Note: This can be made into a nut free snack by
replacing the nut ingredients with some of your
other favorite candy or dried fruit.
Survival Bars
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1 cup butter
1 cup sugar
4 Tbsp corn syrup or honey
½ cup coconut (or other nuts)
2-3 cups rolled oats
½ cup raisins (optional)
Melt butter, sugar and syrup on low heat
until all is liquid. Remove from heat and
stir in remaining items to make a sticky
paste. Spread in foil lined 8" pan. Bake at
350 degrees for 25 minutes.
GORP Bars
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2 cups chocolate chips
2 cups nuts
2 cups raisins
1 cup mini marshmallows (optional)
Melt chocolate slowly on low heat in a
double boiler. Add remaining ingredients
and stir. Pour into 8" pan and cool. Cut
into squares. Bag it and bring on the hike
for a quick high-energy snack.