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===Cooking gear=== | ===Cooking gear=== |
Latest revision as of 18:17, 15 July 2016
A hard kit consists of items that are not considered clothing, or made of fabric. A few of Andy's essentials fall under this category, and his standard trekking food recipe is included.
Fire kit
A basic flint-and-steel kit with char cloth and tow.
Canteens/water bottles
Stitched leather bottles which were stuffed with rice and lined with brewer's pitch.
Cooking gear
"This is what I most often carry inside the corn boiler:
Dried peas & carrots Dried beans-great northern, black-eyed, kidney, etc. Corn meal Spices I’ll carry Jerky, landjaeger, sausage, or whatever I have somewhere in my pack.
I fill the corn boiler about halfway with water, two spoon-fulls of beans and meat and put on the fire. I add several spoon-fulls corn and or peas just before it starts to boil. I just keep checking until the beans and veggies are cooked through. I sometimes have to add a little more water. I can add corn meal as a thickener. One portion has about 570 cal, 100g carbs, and 38g protein.
The corn boiler will hold enough for about 7 meals."