Campfire cookery: three meals to share around a fire
Camping in the wilderness doesn’t mean soggy bread and cold beans for supper. Check out these top recipes from new book ‘Campfire Cookery’ for wholesome meals around the fire
“Bananas Foster” Pancakes
Provides 4-6 portions
As the bewhiskered Swiss philosopher Henri-Frédéric Amiel wrote, “each new dawn signs a contract with existence.” Although we prefer our male companions to be clean-shaven, we cannot help but agree with this sentiment. For our part, we often choose to celebrate the dawn’s new contracts as we do any successfully completed paperwork – by serving something sweet.
These pancakes, fragrant with spice, are brilliant on their own, or with toppings more austere than our concoction of bananas, walnuts, maple, and rum.
Any version makes for the start of a smashing new day.
Ingredients:
3/4 cup all-purpose flour
1 tbsp sugar
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
1/2 tsp freshly grated nutmeg
1/3 cup whole milk
1/4 cup sour cream
1 large egg
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
2 tbsp unsalted butter, add more if necessary
Sauce (optional):
4 tbsp unsalted butter
3 bananas, peeled and sliced into rounds
1/2 cup chopped walnuts
1/2 cup grade-B maple syrup,
1 tbsp dark rum
