Best Scones Ever! – Gundabooka National Park

Peter has had a bit of a craving for scones for a while now, so I thought, why not try them in the camp oven. Never done it before, but we’ll give it a go. If they work out, all well and good, if they don’t…well, we could both do with losing a bit of weight. So, this was a win-win situation.

First came the prep work, as I’ve mentioned before, the more prep you do the easier it is to cook in the camp oven.

I fancied a cheese scone, and Peter a plain, but that would be far too many scones for two little fat people. So, I’d only bake half of each dough batch and the rest would go in the fridge for another day, and do you know what? It worked a treat. In fact, they were by far the best scones I have ever made, and Peter says they’re the best he’s ever tasted. Mind you, he is biased.

Each time we use the camp oven we learn something. This time it was that it’s sometimes better not to place the oven in your actual fire pit. If you preheat the camp oven on the fire, then shovel a small (and I do mean small) layer of coals on the ground a bit away from the fire you can avoid the sporadic heat fluctuations of the fire pit and get better control over temperature.

Place the camp oven on the layer of coals and feel free to ‘load the lid’ with all the coals you can fit on (scones like a lot of heat).

Oh, by the way, the batches that were in the fridge were just as good two days later, except I forgot to put some coals on the ground, and they took a lot longer to cook, even with replacing the hot coals on top three times.  Rookie mistake, won’t do it again.

I want to make these a couple more times, and when I get the recipe right (I fudged it this time so need to repeat it and take note of what I did) then I’ll post it in full.

See you out there somewhere

On tow and on the go!