Campfire Bread

INGREDIENTS

  • 2 cups of flour

  • 1-3 tbsp honey/syrup

  • warm water

  • 1 tsp yeast

  • 3 tbsp oil [olive/sunflower/other]

DESCRIPTION

This is a generic and relatively easy to make bread intended for use in a cast-iron bread pan. You can also use a normal bread pan and oven but in that case you may prefer a more complex recipe. This is not a no-knead recipe which does make preparation while on the move kinda suck, but for a static campsite it is pretty good. This is for a smaller rectangular dutch oven and you may need to scale it up by about 50% for the round cast-iron pots.

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PREPARATION

Mix together wet ingredients, adding just enough water to bring the dough together without getting sticky.

Set the dough aside to rest and rise. Oil the pan in the meantime. Preheat an oven to 200°C or get a fire going if you haven’t.

Get the bread into the pan and set it over the heat. If you’re using a dutch oven, suspend it over the fire and get some coals on the lid. It’ll take 40-50 minutes over a fire, or 35-45 minutes in an oven.

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Take the bread off the fire, let it cool for a few minutes before upending it and dumping it out. Cast iron pots aren’t great at letting water escape so it’ll generally be denser if you make it like that than if you made it in an open-top breadpan.

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