Camp Cooking: A Backpacker's Pocket Guide [Paperback]

Bill and Jo McMorris (Author)

Book Description

Series: A Backpacker's Pocket Guide | Publication Date: March 1, 1989

Camp Cooking is a concise, practical backpacker's cookbook featuring lightweight, nutritious, quick-cooking fare for simple camp stoves.

Featuring Trapper's Oat Bread and other trail breads, one-dish meals like Creamed Salmon and Peas with Potatoes, and a host of breakfasts, soups, entrees and desserts, Camp Cooking also includes thorough advice on the choice and use of camp stoves and an abundance of practical campsite cooking techniques. A handy Appendix lists sample menus, ingredient weights, and a shopping list.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Drawing upon their own camping experience and Bill McMorris's perspective as editor-in-chief of Boy's Life magazine, the authors suggest some fairly inventive solutions to the problems of eating on the trail that place convenience far ahead of culinary excellence. They use prepared and packaged grocery-store ingredients (in addition to foods geared more toward campers and hikers) to gain convenience while minimizing cost (although the price of this 112-page, 4 6 book may raise some eyebrows). These packaged foods lead to several salt-laden recipes, a possible drawback for hikers needing no help to work up a thirst. Italian vegetable soup with beef is based on vegetable soup mix and canned roast beef while scalloped potatoes with ham and cheese sauce comes from freeze-dried potatoes, canned ham, cheese-sauce mix and milk powder. Other dishes include sweet-and-sour Spam with buttered noodles, fresh fish chowder, canned chicken and instant rice with gravy mix, pancake rollups and vanilla pudding. Brief notes on utensils, the characteristics of various compact stoves and fuels as well as practical suggestions on space savers, such as condiments in single-serving packets, can assist beginning backpackers. Illustrations not seen by PW.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From the Back Cover

Camp Cooking is a concise, practical backpacker's cookbook featuring lightweight, nutritious, quick-cooking fare for simple camp stoves. Featuring Trapper's Oat Bread and other trail breads, one-dish meals like Creamed Salmon and Peas with Potatoes, and a host of breakfasts, soups, entrees and desserts, Camp Cooking also includes thorough advice on the choice and use of camp stoves and an abundance of practical campsite cooking techniques. A handy Appendix lists sample menus, ingredient weights, and a shopping list. (4 X 6, 128 pages, illustrations)

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: The Lyons Press; 1st edition (March 1, 1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1558210237
• ISBN-13: 978-1558210233
• Product Dimensions: 5.9 x 3.9 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,432,901 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A complete guide to easy, light weight recipes for the trail, November 20, 1999

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This review is from: Camp Cooking: A Backpacker's Pocket Guide (Paperback)

This compact, easy-to-carry pocket guide contains dozens of light weight, healthful recipes for the backpacker as well as tips on selection of utensils, stoves and fuels, advice on purifying water and general cooking suggestions. Well-tested recipes show the outdoor cook how to package and prepare meals using inexpensive freeze-dried ingredients available from supermarkets. The contents covers breads on the trail, breakfasts and beverages, soups and chowders, one dish meals and desserts. In addition the authors have prepared a section on long-lasting foods that may be prepared at home and taken on the trail. Other chapters are devoted to preparing a fisherman's catch and cooking in a base camp where utensils unsuitable for back packing--such as Dutch ovens--can be used. Three appendices contain a suggested menu for four backpackers for four days on the trail, a list of the weight of the ingredients and a shopping guide. A thoroughly useful guide to making tasty, easily prepared meals on the trail. A handy book for any wilderness traveler.