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Items needed: Dutch oven #12 (8 quart), charcoal briquettes, aluminum foil.
4 cans of peach halves. Two (2) tubes of Pillsbury cinnamon rolls. Serves about 8, but portions can be made smaller to have enough to go around.
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To do: Start charcoal fire using about 40 briquettes. (This is usually a good time to have the scouts' practice their fire making skills.) While the charcoal is starting, line bottom and sides of Dutch oven with aluminum foil - shiny side up. |
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After the Dutch oven has been lined, place peach halves in the bottom of the Dutch oven. (I put the rounded side down.) Three (3) cans should give you enough to cover the bottom. Give someone the juice to drink, or drink it yourself. You won't need it for cooking. |
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Open the cinnamon roll tubes. Place rolls over the peach halves until the peaches are covered with the rolls. Put the icing somewhere where it won't freeze in winter or melt in summer. Put on Dutch oven lid. |
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After the charcoal fire is going (about 20 minutes), put 20 briquettes on a firm surface. If it's rained, snowed, or the ground is wet, put down aluminum foil (shiny side up) to keep the charcoal hot enough to cook. Use a large enough strip of aluminum foil to hold the briquettes and the Dutch oven. Put the Dutch oven over 20 briquettes. Put the other 20 briquettes on top of the Dutch oven lid. This allows the Dutch oven to cook from the bottom and bake from the top. |
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Hold a Scoutmaster conference, tell jokes, or whatever for about 40 minutes. Invite several hungry people to "check out" the progress. Make sure your "checkers" are where they can smell the aroma of cooking peaches as you lift the lid and "check out" the Dutch oven. If the cinnamon rolls aren't done, leave on the fire for 5 more minutes and check again. |
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After 5 minutes, take lid off, dump the briquette ashes, put lid back on and take over to camp. Make sure you have a surface that can hold the hot Dutch oven without causing a fire and that is sturdy enough to hold the weight. At the mess table, put icing over the top of the rolls; invite everyone to get a whiff. While everyone gets paper plates and eating utensils, put lid back on for an additional 5 to 10 minutes to let the icing melt into the rolls. |
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Use a metal spatula to cut out one roll with the peach half on the bottom. You won't have any trouble dishing it out, as plates will magically appear as soon as you have something scooped out. Repeat process until all is served. If any is left over, take the Dutch oven over to the boy's patrol area or to a visiting Scout Troop. Let them get a whiff and ask if anyone is hungry. Any that is left will be eaten and someone will volunteer to clean up the aluminum foil. This means you don't have to spend very much time on the Dutch oven clean-up. |
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Of course, clean up the charcoal fire and food preparation area. Since you've done all this hard work to make the dessert and others have gotten fat eating it, someone usually volunteers for the clean up duty. I find hinting that I'll never make this dessert again unless someone helps seems to be very effective at this time. After dessert, get the kids turned in, put out camp lights, crawl into your tent, get warm in the sleeping bag, and have a good night's rest. |
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©1998,2009 by Glenn A. Dickey. Permission is granted for use by any scouting or 4-H group as long as no fee is charged. |