Know your vegetables

**gromit** · 12th August 2024, 05:11 PM

SWMBO is a Cub Scout Leader and was heading off to camp at the weekend.
Arranged for a certain grocery company that delivers to deliver fruit & veg to take away on Friday

Ordered 5 lettuces received 5 cauliflowers !!
Either a mistake or someone doesn't know their vegetables ?
A quick phonecall and the kids went without lettuce and we had 5 free cauliflowers.

Colin

**spudfan** · 13th August 2024, 06:45 AM

It is surprising what you will eat outdoors. Stuff you would not normally look at becomes palatable at the end of a wet cold day.
I remember being out with someone. I had soup going in a pot when he cracked an egg into the soup to cook it. Anyway the egg cooked and the soup did not suffer....much.

**ramblingboy42** · 21st August 2024, 11:18 AM

I was once a scoutleader.

Here is a good. surprise meal , although once done it becomes a favourite , able to be left in the hands of the patrol leaders....or you may like to try it in your campfire coals or camp oven.

Using a good sized qld blue pumpkin, cut a plug about 4" dia in the top. Mix a couple of kg of mince , onions, potatoes, carrots, tomatoes, season plenty. Scoop all the seeds out (dont throw them in the bush) and pack the mince mix into the pumpkin. Punch a few breather or vent holes in the pumpkin and bury in the coals. The surprise for the scouts come is you do all this while they are out being scouts and come back into camp hungry for dinner. You retrieve this horrible black blob from the campfire with a shovel and hand it over to the patrol leaders to open and feed the troops on the damper they have made.

Cautions.....1..cutting the plug out of the pumpkin requires care...use a saw blade...surely you have one...it is seriously easier to cut it square.

2, the pumpkin gets bloody hot and may be under pressure pierce it before you open it up

3, take the seeds home , dont want pumpkin vines in the bush

4, it can be very messy opening and serving.

does it taste good , bloody oath.

Den the cook,

**Saitch** · 23rd August 2024, 06:46 AM

Originally Posted by ramblingboy42

I was once a scoutleader.

Here is a good. surprise meal , although once done it becomes a favourite , able to be left in the hands of the patrol leaders....or you may like to try it in your campfire coals or camp oven.

Using a good sized qld blue pumpkin, cut a plug about 4" dia in the top. Mix a couple of kg of mince , onions, potatoes, carrots, tomatoes, season plenty. Scoop all the seeds out (dont throw them in the bush) and pack the mince mix into the pumpkin. Punch a few breather or vent holes in the pumpkin and bury in the coals. The surprise for the scouts come is you do all this while they are out being scouts and come back into camp hungry for dinner. You retrieve this horrible black blob from the campfire with a shovel and hand it over to the patrol leaders to open and feed the troops on the damper they have made.

Cautions.....1..cutting the plug out of the pumpkin requires care...use a saw blade...surely you have one...it is seriously easier to cut it square.

2, the pumpkin gets bloody hot and may be under pressure pierce it before you open it up

3, take the seeds home , dont want pumpkin vines in the bush

4, it can be very messy opening and serving.

does it taste good , bloody oath.

Den the cook,

Not for a Scout camp, but a pumpkin can be used similarly, with RB's ingredients being replaced by sugar and no breather holes required.

Depending on the length of time of fermentation (more like maturation), a pumpkin brew with varying percentages of alcohol content, will be forthcoming.

According to my father, it was somewhat popular with the Diggers in New Guinea during the Second World War.

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