Outdoors Dutch Oven Biscuits Recipe
2 c Flour 4 T Solid shortening 1/2 t Salt 1 c Milk (diluted ok),Canned 3 t Baking powder
Blend flour, salt, baking powder and mash in shortening with a fork until crumbly. Add milk and stir until the dough sags down into trough left by spoon as it moves around the bowl.
Turn dough out on a floured surface, knead for 30 seconds, pat out gently until it is 1/2 inch thick. Cut with a round cutter or pinch off pieces of dough and form by hand.
Put biscuits into a greased Dutch Oven, cover, and bury in bright coals for 5 or 10 minutes or until golden brown.
Dutch Oven Trout
6 8 inch trout 1 t pepper,Ground 12 sl Bacon
Filet the trout. Lay three slices of bacon on the bottom of a Dutch Oven, put 1/2 a trout, flesh-side-down, on each slice. Sprinkle pepper lightly over upper sides of fish. Arrange a second layer of bacon and fish at right angles to the first, and continue to arrange other layers, each at right angles to one below it, until all the fish halves are in the pot. Cover the Dutch Oven, bury in coals, cook 35-40 minutes. Serve a slice of bacon with each half-fish. If you cook bass this way, skin them first.
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