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How to make Bread in Camp

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How to make a simple bread at camp with an Alcohol stove All purpose flour will work using a bit of baking powder, but if I was packing flour while camping, I'd use self-rising flour. The ingredients are few. A cup of flour with 2 pinches of salt, 2/3rds t-spoon of Baking powder, a t-spoon of melted butter, a packet or 2 of sugar, and water. You can use Self-rising flour instead of Baking powder. Mix the ingredients with water until dough will hold it's shape. This 'oven'is a tapered 2 wall container with the outside bottom cut away. The outside wall insulates the inside wall from the outside air, quite important. I put an Aluminum plate in the bottom, a half inch off the bottom to keep from burning the dough. Coat the dough with flour so it doesn't stick to your hand or the bottom and drop it in the 'Oven'. Coating the walls of the container with butter, bacon fat, or cooking oil will make the bread come out easier. The dough is nestled in the