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Post subject: PACK PROGRAM: GREEN STAR: Cooking Badge
 Posted: Sep 01, 2008 - 08:00 PM
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Hello folks,
Have you done the cooking Badge? Here is a program that will allow you to award the Cooking badge to the youth in your pack. In keeping with the “OUT†in “scouts†this program takes place outdoors and challenges the youth to learn basic outdoor cooking skills and an appreciation of working with open fires.
This badge can be earned over two nights at your local fire pit or through one night at the fire pit and the second at a weekend camp.
GREEN STAR: Cooking badge
Cub book page 78
Cooking Badge Requirements:
• Make some hot oatmeal
• Cook a hotdog or hamburger
• Use a tinfoil cup or orange half and bake, a muffin in it.
• Wrap a potato in tinfoil and bake it in a fire.
• Boil water and cook some pasta of your choice.
• Make pancakes or French toast.
• Make biscuit or bannock dough and cook it on a stick or in a cup.
• Cook a baked apple, banana, or a tinfoil dessert of your choice.
• Make a campfire treat, such as SMOR's or popcorn.
• Cook a meal of your choice while at camp.
• Make a shish-ka-bob of meat and vegetables and cook over a fire.
• Cook an egg.
Program evening #1 Your local fire pit
Sit your youth around your local fire pit and tell them what activities they are going to perform and make them aware of the risks with working with knives and with an open fire camp fire
Break your pack into sixes and have two sixes working on food preparation while the other sizes are playing a game. When half the food is prepared, rotate the sixes so everyone gets a game and prepares food.
Tell your parents that the youth will be cooking food that they can sample.
Menu
• Curry Chicken (for Leaders)
• Omlettes in a bag (For youth)
• Orange Muffins (For youth)
• Cinnamon Apples (For youth)
• Hot Chocolate (For youth)
Curry Chicken (prepared by youth for the leaders)
Leaders cut up chicken breast into pieces prior to meeting and bring with them
Youth place one scoop of margarine into tin foil tray
Youth cut up onion into thin slices and place in tin foil tray
Youth cut up potatoes into scallop sized potato slices
Youth cut place frozen peas / corn and place in tin foil tray
Youth place 3 slices of peaches/apricots/apples in tin foil tray
Leaders place chicken pieces in tin foil tray
Youth seal up tin foil tray and leaders place in glowing embers of camp fire
Omlettes in a Bag
Youth bring pot of water to boil on camp stove
Youth crack an egg and pour into zip lock bag
Youth cut up cheese into small parts and place in zip lock bag
Youth add peas or corn in zip lock bag
Youth seal up zip lock bag and place in boiling water to cook
Orange Muffins
Leaders prepare ahead of time flavored muffin mix
Youth cut oranges in half and scoop out centers leaving orange halves
Youth place orange centre into a bowl so it can be squeezed
Youth place muffin mix into the centre of one of the orange halves
Youth place both orange halves together and then wrap in tin foil
Leaders place orange muffins on glowing embers of camp fire
Cinnamon ApplesYouth core apples and then slice into 4 quarters
Youth hold apple quarters together and wrap in tin foil to hold the apple together (leaving top half of the apple exposed
Youth add syrup, cinnamon spice and brown sugar to centre of the apple
Youth wrap the apple in tin foil
Leaders place apples on glowing embers of camp fire
Hot Chocolate
Youth boil water over a camp stove
Youth add hot chocolate powder into water
Leaders pour hot chocolate into cups – add marshmallows if needed
Program evening #2 Your local fire pit or a weekend camp
Menu
• Bannock
• Hotdogs and Burgers
• Peach Cobbler and Fruit cake
Bannock Strips
Youth place sugar, lard, water, salt, flour and baking soda in a pot (Do not cook yet!!)
Youth stir until Bannock mixture is like dough (thick and gooey)
Youth collect thin sticks – ¼ inch to ½ inch thick and at least 3ft to 4ft in length
Leaders hand out Bannock dough in small amounts and ask youth to roll it out into strips
Youth roll Bannock dough into strips and wind it around stick
Youth bake Bannock dough over an open camp fire pit until it is lightly browned
Youth eat Bannock as is or add fruit jam for flavouring
Hotdogs and Burgers
Leaders direct youth to make an open fire pit with a ring of stones
Leaders direct youth to arrange stones so that a grill can be placed on the stones
Leaders ensure that the grill is stable
Leaders direct youth to build a campfire and light it.
Youth wrap tin foil around top side of grill (leaders check that it is secure_
Unser supervision, youth place grill on fire pit and leaders check that it is stable
Youth add hotdogs and burgers on tin foil
Youth turn the food over at regular intervals
Youth place hotdog / burger buns on sticks and toast them over the embers
Eat when ready
Peach cobbler
Youth make cake mix with water, eggs and cake mix (Stir until mixture is blended together)
Using tin foil trays
Youth add spoonful of margarine into tin foil tray
Youth add small tin in of peaches into tin foil tray
Youth add cake mix over peaches
Youth seal up tin foil tray
Leaders place peach cobbler on glowing embers of camp fire
Fruit cake
Youth make cake mix with water, eggs and cake mix (Stir until mixture is blended together)
Using tin foil trays
Youth add spoonful of margarine into tin foil tray
Youth add small tin in of fruit mix into tin foil tray
Youth add cake mix over fruit and stir together
Youth seal up tin foil tray
Leaders place Fruit cake on glowing embers of camp fire
At the end of your second cooking activity you can surprise all of your cubs with a badge award and you can tell them that they earned this badge by having fun and learning good outdoor cooking skills as well as safety and responsibility around open campfires and cooking stoves.
Web resources that were used for this badge activity Sources
http://www.grouprecipes.com/sr/13189/auntie-fayes-bannock/recipe/
http://camping.about.com/od/campingrecipes/u/recipes.htm
http://www.101cookbooks.com/archives/cooking-and-camping-recipe.html
http://www.scoutingthenet.com/Cooking/
http://www.socalcamping.com/outdoorcooking/cooking.html
http://www.eartheasy.com/play_campfire_cooking.htm
http://www.koa.com/recipes/campfirecooking.htm
http://www.campfiredude.com/campfire-cooking.shtml
http://www.my-favorite-camping-store.com/campfire-cooking.html
http://www.chuckwagondiner.com/
http://www.netwoods.com/d-cooking.html#Outdoor%20Recipes
http://www.greatcamps.com/recipes.htm
If you have used other ways to earn the Green Star Cooking Badge, please email me scouterpyd@rogers.com to tell me about it so I can share it with others.
Paul Young-Davies |
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