National Camp Oven Festival

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Damper
Ingredients	Double qty. for 12 or 16-inch oven 3 cups S.R. flour ½ cup milk 3 teas. Salt	½ cup water or beer 90 gm (3 oz) Butter Extra flour
How to make it	Sift flour and salt into bowl. Rub in butter until mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs. Make a well in centre of the dry ingredients, add liquid all at once. Mix lightly with a sharp knife in cutting motion. Turn out onto a lightly floured surface and knead lightly. Knead dough into round and place on foil-covered rack and place in camp oven. Bake over a slow fire, placing some coals on the lid of the camp oven. When cooked, after approx. ½ hour damper should be golden brown and sound hollow when tapped.
Variations:	Mixed dry fruit or raisins and some sugar can be added to the mix or grated cheese may be added to the dry mix. Other variations can be tried to your own taste.

Lamb Shanks in Mint
Ingredients	4 Lamb Shanks 2 tab. Mint jelly 1 Diced Onion	½ cup tomato sauce 1 Cup water 1 tab. Butter or oil
How to make it	Heat oil and brown shanks in camp oven, then brown onions. Add all other ingredients, and simmer slowly until cooked.

Barbecue Spare Ribs
Ingredients	1½ kg spare ribs 1 teaspoon. Salt 2 tab soy sauce 3 tab. Tomato sauce	1 tab sugar 2 tabs honey 1-cup chicken stock
How to make it	Mix soy sauce, sugar, salt, chicken stock, tomato sauce and honey together and marinade spare ribs in for 1 hour. Put a little water in bottom of camp oven and place spare ribs on rack sitting in camp oven over water. Roast for about 1¼ hour, turning spare ribs from time to time. Heat diluted marinade, and serve with spare ribs over rice.

Camp oven chicken
Ingredients	2 small or 1 large chicken 1 onion 2 apples	1 cup of white wine or cider 4 rashers bacon
How to make it	Stuff chicken with quartered apples. Brown chopped bacon then chicken. Place all other ingredients in the oven and cover tightly with foil. Simmer slowly till tender.

Another Damper
Ingredients	2 cups self raising flour 8 oz milk (normally powdered)	1/2 tsp salt
How to make it	Mix flour and salt. Make well in the centre and add milk, mixing with a knife to form a moist dough. Turn into a greased 7" tin. Bake in hot oven for 25 minutes, then turn onto wire cooling tray. Variations can be the addition of either sultanus, dried fruit, herbs, sugar, 2oz butter, lemon, etc.

The Bushman's Drink
Ingredients	One pint of rain water or clean crisp creek water Two gum tree leaves Handful of billy tea leaves (tablespoon)
How to make it	Boil water in Billy Can over open wood fire. Add tea leaves and simmer for two minutes then add gum leaves and simmer for another two minutes. Bush men would now place the lid on the billy can and swing around and around until the gum leaves went to the bottom. This process also perfectly mixed the tea. Let settle for two minutes then pour into metal drinking mug adding milk or sugar if required.

Johnny Cakes
Ingredients	1 cup self raising flour 1/4 teaspoon salt Water to make a workable dough.
How to make it	Mix well, roll out to 1/2 inch thickness and cut into quarters. Put a few tablespoons of beef fat into the warm camp oven and when it is boiling drop in the cakes and cook for 8 to 10 minutes.

Billy Can Bun
Ingredients	1 1/2 cups of raisins 1/2 cup of sultanas and raisins 1 cup sugar	1 teaspoon of bicarbonate soda 2 cups flour 1/2 teaspoon of mixed spice and cinnamon
How to make it	Combine all ingredients. Mix well with 500 mls of boiling tea. Empty into a greased and floured billy can. Cover, let stand overnight. Steam for 3 1/2 hours.