How to Feed a Hungry Scout

Peanut Butter popcorn treats

2/19/2022

From "Kids Cook"

8 cups popped popcorn (approx 1/2 cup kernels)
1/4 cup butter or margarine
1/2 cup brown sugar
2/3 cups corn syrup
1/2 cup smooth peanut butter
1 tsp vanilla

The Howler Cubs enjoying a weekend Harry Potter themed camp at Bonnie Lake... first time back to camp for the Cubs since the start of the pandemic

Bonnie Lake Scout Camp, February 2022

- Place oven rack in the centre position, and preheat the oven to 350F
- Pop the popcorn, place in a large bowl and set aside.
- Prepare a cookie sheet by lining with parchment paper...it makes cleanup simple.
- In a medium saucepan, melt the butter on medium heat.
- Add brown sugar and corn syrup. Heat, stirring constantly until the brown sugar is dissolved.
- Stir in peanut butter, and bring to a boil.
- Remove saucepan from heat, and stir in vanilla.
- Pour hot mixture over popcorn. Toss well to coat popcorn.
- Spread coated popcorn on prepared cookie sheet.
- Bake in oven for 7 minutes.
- Cool popcorn still on cookie sheet on a wire rack.
- Once cooled, break up popcorn into bitesize pieces and enjoy with a Harry Potter movie!

Pro tip: split peas don't work for this recipe... oops...Scouter Dawn accidently brought peas instead of popcorn from home! Luckily, we had popcorn kernels in the cabinet

Wacky Cake

2/5/2021

Why is this Depression era cake wacky? Well, it has a few unusual ingredients, but it also is made directly in the cake pan... so less dishes to wash up!

1 1/2 cups flour
1 cup white sugar
1/3 cup cocoa
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup warm water
1/3 cup vegetable oil
1 tsp white vinegar
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 cup chocolate chips (optional)

Cub Scout Baking Night February 2021

- Preheat oven to 350F
- in a 8x8 inch cake pan, mix flour, sugar, cocoa, baking soda and salt until well blended
- add the water, vegetable oil, vinegar and vanilla
- stir gently until all the dry ingredients are incorporated.
- sprinkle chocolate chips onto the top of the batter
- bake for 30 to 35 minutes or until done
- to test for doneness, insert a toothpick into the middle of the cake. There should be no wet batter clinging to the toothpick when the cake is done
- cool cake in pan on a wire rack

Francis Family Banana Muffins

2/4/2021

A Francis family favourite shared in a Zoom baking lesson with the Cubs during their 2021 Virtual Winter Camp

Baking day January 2021

1/2 cup butter at room temperature
1 cup white sugar
2 eggs
1 tbsp vanilla
3 ripe bananas, peeled and mashed
1 1/2 cups flour
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt

- Preheat oven to 350F
- In a mixing bowl, cream butter. Add sugar and combine well
- Add eggs, vanilla and mashed bananas. Mix well.
- Stir in flour, baking soda and salt until the dry ingredients are incorporated. the batter may be slightly lumpy
- Line muffin pan with muffin cup liners
- Divide batter into the 12 muffin cups
- Bake for 30 minutes or until done
- Cool muffins in pan on a wire rack for 10 minutes, then take out of pan and continue to cool on the rack

Mountain Man Breakfast

8/30/2020

Looking for a hearty campfire breakfast? Mountain Man breakfast has you covered. While this breakfast was cooked over a Swedish firelog, it can be made over a stove just as easily. This recipe can easily be scaled up or down, depending on the number of hungry Sea Ventures that you have on hand. Customize the mixture with your favourite meat and vegetables... and yes, this can easily be vegetarian

your choice of meat - diced bacon, diced ham, slices of breakfast sausage, chorizo sausage meat, or a mix of meats
diced onions / scallions / green onions
diced peppers
sliced mushrooms
frozen hash brown potatoes
eggs (1 to 2 per person), lightly beaten

- over a hot fire, cook meat of choice in a cast iron skillet
- once meat is cooked, remove meat from pan and set aside
- using the rendered fat, sauté vegetables
- add hash brown potatoes.
- string frequently, cook hash browns until browned.
- add meat back to pan
- add lightly beaten eggs, stirring constantly until scrambled
- enjoy with hot sauce such as Chalula or ketchup!

tin foil Monkey Bread

8/30/2020

based on Cupcake Diaries

1/4 cup white sugar
3/4 cup brown sugar
1 tsp cinnamon
1 can Pillsbury biscuits
4 tbsp cold butter

- prepare 2 tin foil pouches by spraying 2 large pieces of tin foil with cooking spray. Set aside
- stir together sugars and cinnamon. Set aside
- open can of biscuits. Cut each biscuit into 4 pieces.
- roll biscuit bits in cinnamon sugar
- divide biscuit bits into the 2 packets
- cut butter into small cubes and sprinkle evenly between the 2 packets.
- using the drugstore fold, seal the packets tightly
- just to be sure, use a second layer of tin foil to ensure the packets do not leak
- cook on a grate over hot coals for 20 minutes, or in a gas BBQ at about 350F for 20 minutes, turning frequently to prevent burning and to encourage even baking

Covid 19 Mug-Nuts

8/30/2020

At the start of the COVID 19 pandemic, in-person Scouting and camping came abruptly to a halt in Canada. The Rosslyn Cubs muddled on and held their first Virtual Pillow Fort Camp in April 2020. Youth were encouraged to cook for their families, and Scouter Lisa provided a simple recipe for a doughnut in a mug....or a Mug-nut, With a few simple ingredients and a microwave, you can quickly have a yummy treat.

Based on Gemma's Bigger Bolder Baking

2 tablespoons Butter
4 tablespoons all-purpose flour
1 Egg yolk
2 tablespoons sugar
1 tablespoon milk
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 tablespoon Strawberry jam (or Nutella, or any other jam)
Cinnamon sugar to garnish

- place butter into a microwavable mug and microwave until just melted.
- add in the remaining ingredients, except the jam; mix well with a fork until just combined
- once the batter is mixed place the spoonful of jam down into the batter to get a jammy centre
- microwave for 45 seconds or until it is firm on top.
- sprinkle some cinnamon sugar on top and enjoy straight away!

Roast Turkey

12/2/2019

The Venturers wanted to try something new. They wanted to learn how to cook a Christmas Dinner. What a great idea!

Christmas Dinner Camp 2019

1 large turkey,thawed
Seasoning salt

- Preheat oven to 450ºF
- Prepare roasting pan by laying turkey lifter across the bottom of the pan, with the handles draped over the sides of the pan
- On a large cutting board, remove thawed turkey from wrap
- Remove gizzard pack and neck from cavity. Discard gizzards.
- Dry the turkey with paper towels. Discard paper towels
- Liberally dust seasoning salt on bird and neck
- Fold wings behind bird
- Place seasoned neck and turkey breast side up in the pan, on top of the turkey lifter
- Tuck turkey lifter into pan.
-Cover pan with tin foil
-Place in hot oven. Turn oven temperature down to 325ºF
- Baste bird with pan dripping once an hour
- Approximate cooking time – 20 minutes per pound
- Once internal temperature of the thigh meat reaches 165ºF, remove tin foil. Continue to bake so skin browns
- Turkey is cooked when thermometer reads 180ºF
- Carefully remove roasting pan from oven. Set aside, and let the meat rest in the pan for 30 minutes covered with foil
- Once meat has rested, carefully hook the turkey lifter handles and lift bird to a large, clean cutting board.
- Carve the bird
- Reserve the pan juices for gravy

Preparing the turkey with seasoning salt

Honest, it was the largest turkey at the store

Scouter Ian provides turkey carving lessons

Buttery Onion and Sage Stuffing

12/2/2019

Oven times may vary...

2 French loaves, sliced into 1 inch cubes
3 large onions, diced
2 eggs, beaten
1 ½ tsp salt
1 tsp paprika
1 tbsp poultry seasoning
1 cup butter

- Preheat oven to 325ºF
- Lightly grease a casserole dish with butter
- Slice bread into cubes: place in mixing bowl
- Add salt, paprika and poultry seasoning to cubed bread. Toss to combine
- Add lightly beaten eggs to bread cubes. Stir to combine
- In a large frying pan, melt butter
add diced onions to butter, and cook onions until translucent.
- Add hot onions and butter to bread cubes. Stir to combine
- Transfer stuffing to a lightly greased casserole
- Cover dish with tin foil
- Place in oven. Bake for 30 to 35 minutes
- Remove from oven and serve

Cranberry Sauce

12/2/2019

Cranberry sauce doesn't have to come from a can.

2 cups water
2 cups white sugar
4 cups fresh or frozen cranberries

- Combine sugar and water in a saucepan
- Boil the syrup for 5 minutes
- Add washed and picked over berries to the syrup
- Simmer berries in syrup for 5 minutes
- Skim off any foam
- Pour hot sauce into a decorative serving dish and chill

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