Baking with a Plank and a Bushpot

Description

http://www.selfrelianceoutfitters.com

http://astore.amazon.com/davecante-20

The Pathfinder School,Bush Craft ,Survival skills, Historical Lore, Primitive Skills, Archery, Hunting, Trapping, Fishing, Navigation, Knives, Axes, Fire, Water, Shelter, Search and Rescue

Tags: Bushcraft,Survival,David Canterbury,Dave Canterbury,Pathfinder,The Pathfinder School,Archery,Hunting,Fishing,Camping,Primitive Skills,Fire,Water,Shelter,Navigation,First Aid,Search and Rescue,Signaling,Prepper,Preparedness,Self Reliance,Survivability,The 10 C's,Knives,Axes,Saws,Bow Drill,Ferrocerium Rod,Ferro Rod,Tarp,Hammock,Canteen,Cooking,Longhunter,Trapping

Video Transcription

morning folks I'm Dave Canterbury with self-reliance outfitters in the pathline school what I thought we'd do this morning is make a little bit of a small loaf of bread or a large biscuit using our 1.4 liter bush pot I have some questions yesterday on the video about how do I make bread or a biscuit using that stuff so I'm going to show you that today and I also wanted to cover one other thing you know like I said I shoot videos by opportunity a lot of times and it's not that I want to shoot a lot of infomercial type videos or videos featuring different products but sometimes it just happens to work out that way as I'm shooting video I had the stuff from hammock your.com out here's a week before when those guys were out here talking me through some winter camping options things like that and the reason I'm looking at that type of ultralight gear is because I'm getting ready to travel to Denmark and Sweden next week for two weeks to teach and as anyone knows when you travel especially overseas by air or anywhere by air for that matter weight is always a major concern and I want to conserve the majority of the weight that I have for tools so I have to cut corners someplace and if that cutting corners means I have to take ultralight camp gear that's gonna get me off the ground then that's the road I have to take there's always a place and a time and a design intent for every piece of gear and expanding my horizons past the traditional like this canvas hammock with rope clues and oilskin tarp those things would weigh 15 pounds alone on a 50 pound limit for a bag so I have to be cognizant of that so what we're gonna do today is we're gonna make some of this bread real quick I'm going to show you how to do that our first priority for cooking or baking in general baking means that we need to build a coal bed so I've got a fire started the fire pit over here I'm gonna add some wood to it get ourselves a good coal bed built up then I'm gonna show you how you use this 1.4 liter bush pot or any bush pot for that matter to make a convection type of it stay with me all right so while we're letting our coals burn down the one thing we're gonna need is really need a plank of wood and this is just a piece of Aspen that was dead falling and I've cut it to length and I've split it with my axe and shoot it down a little bit to about a quarter of an inch thick and that's really a little bit thicker than I want but I just don't feel like messing with it anymore so the reason for that plank is that plank needs to work as a shelf inside of whatever bush pot we decide to use for this application and we can just set that plank right inside the pot just like this and it becomes a cooking shelf and you're going to have convection inside this pot for baking your bread you could put the lid on there as well to trap some heat in there and that works out really well as long as you can get that lid off and place that thing in a position to be able to do that to see when your breads done but it shouldn't take more than about 10 or 15 minutes to cook this and it's a pretty simple simple process what we're going to do is we're just going to take some of our just add water biscuit mix out of our food ten bag here and carrying food in this manner stacked in tins and a sleeve like this a canvas sleeve was a very traditional way of doing things there's lots of drawings from old books and Scout manuals and things like that to show that configuration of tins to carry food this is just a just out of water biscuit mix like I said I don't remember what flavor it is it's probably for cheese or something like that and I usually wrap it with electrical tape around the edge just to kind of help waterproof it and I don't mind mixing it right in the tin and just pouring water into the tin to mix it I'll show you how that works here in just a minute as well okay so what I do is I just take my tin of flour or mix whatever I've got there am I just out of water and I make a little divot in there and then I add water to that divot till it just overflows a little bit then I'll just take the back of my spoon and start stirring that in it doesn't have to be really large but I do want to collect up all of the water and you can see this turn into a ball now which one I want if I got a leaf in here the last time you use this it looks like I'm gonna need a little more water in there and that's just something that you're gonna kind of figure out over time how much water you want you don't want an overabundance of water in there but you don't want this thing to be too dry either because in the end you're gonna want to form it into a bit of a loaf I got more than one leaf in there for the last time I worked with this okay now you can see we're starting to get something that looks like a loaf of bread here or a large biscuit and we'll just kind of mix some of this in off the sides into it to absorb the liquid and this powder will also help us to now I get too much of the sticking to our hands that we have to wash off and that doesn't have to be a whole lot better than that that's not too runny at all that's just about right and now we're going to want to work it with our hands but we'll wait to do that until we're ready to put it on the plank itself so we'll just roll it over on itself just like that keep the powdered parts to the outside sprinkle a little bit on there if you need to you can always use your spoon to do that I've got a spoon here I can sprinkle the top with just like this flip it over and sprink the box sprinkle the bottom side and all this does just keeps it from sticking to your hands and also keeps it from sticking to whatever you're cooking in

and I just forming a small loaf in there there's tens just about the right size for that just like that and we'll set that aside for a minute while our coal is burned down a little more okay we're getting burnt down good now and we want to get some coals that are nice and hot drag them into this keyhole area of our fire we don't really want the burning sticks with those good hot coals get a good pile of them in there just like that let the rest of that burn we'll use some without here in a minute now we're going to take our loaf here and we're going to place it on the point just like this and we don't want to be overly thick because we don't want to take too long to cook so spread that thing out to about the width of your plank in all directions just like this get yourself a good square loaf remember it's gonna rise anyway shape everything up the way you want it and once you've got that then you're going to take your Bush pot I usually put the handles up so that I can take it off the fire if I want to put my lid on the front just like that and I'm gonna set it right down in those coals with the lid facing forward and then I'm going to begin to pile coals around it and if I have to create more coals I can do that that's not that's not a difficult thing to do I can always make more coals in my fire but the object of the game now is to get the heat surrounding this pot really really well the more coals we can get around that pot the better off we are and then we just need to be patient now we're gonna start putting a few little sticks on here just to kind of keep things going keep some calls in there keep a little bit of flame but not too much so you can see how both a little bit of a fire lay around it and that's just to keep the heat in number one by piling it up and not letting it breathe so well but if it flames up a little bit I can always move things around yeah by being close take a look and see what we got okay we've got got most of the smoke going down you can see our locust split at the top which means it's nice and cooked you can see how there's space between that point and the bottom that keeps things from burning it gives us good convection around the sides and on the inside and you can see how we're buried in that keyhole fire let's get this dude out of the fire and see how she looks all right stick here and pull this do you out of fire Clank might be a little bit warm just pull it out onto the ground we did burn just a little bit around the very back side where we had a little bit too much flame in there but the rest of the loaf looks really really good cool okay here's our loaf fully cooked a.split nice and fluffy on the inside looks really really good right time to sample the goods here oh man Charlie does that look good then it was for cheese it's really really really good nice and fluffy Goodridge stick and food for the trail for sure

guys I appreciate you joining me here this morning for this just a quick little video on how to bake bread inside of a bush pot using a plank the very simple process but I wanted to put up a bush crafty or cooking type video to back up all of these product reviews if you will that I've been doing lately because like I said it's not it's just coincidental it's not on purpose just as things come but I did have a guy ask a question about how to bake a biscuit or bread in this bush pot yesterday using what I had with me and obviously the landscape so I thought I'd show you that today I appreciate your views and I appreciate your support I thank you for everything you do for school for family or business all of our sponsors instructors affiliates and Friends and I'll be back with another video as soon as I can thanks guys