Bacon and Cheese Damper

[earle]

Here's the recipe for Bacon and Cheese damper. I use a pack of those bacon bits for convenience.

A tip for checking whether damper, scones etc are cooked is to tap on them, if they sound hollow they're cooked.

A few tips if you decide to cook it in a camp oven.
- Use a trivet or cake rack in the bottom to save getting a burnt bottom
- Baking paper inside a shallow cake tin means an easy clean up and also makes it easy to put it into a hot camp oven and get it out, I use multigrips to grab the edge of the tin.
- When baking in a camp oven you need heat from below and above
- Preheat the camp oven and lid



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[Oliver]

On My Kitchen Rules (I know, I know, but I'm forced to watch it because the missus loves it) the two young blokes made cheese and bacon damper and won the round!

Who would have thought

Might have to give this a go.

Oliver

[earle]

For completeness I'll repost the photos from the camping thread.

I usually cook on a fire but thats not allowed in national parks. The setup in the photo is classified as a fully contained cooking device using manufactured fuel so is allowed. Got the BBQ grill thingo for about $7 from the local cheap shop. I popped roughly 20-30 heat heads in a basket and chucked them on the butane stove to get them going. Once a few beads get that white ash covering they'll light the rest. Apparently you can get a special chimney device for lighting them quicker, I'm going to make one out of a tin can for now. About an hour to get them all lit using the basket. I put 2/3 of the beads under the oven and the rest on top. Leave for about 10-15 minutes to preheat the oven then pop the damper in. IIRC I checked it after about 20 minutes then left it for another 10 to finish off.

[barrelboy]

Earle that looks great. I was thinking, as damper would travel well, you could post one with the beer when I win the lottery!!
Cheers BB

[earle]

That would work allright if I lived in a capital city with next day express post. When I lived in Brisbane I knew a bloke who's grandmother in Tasmania would cook him things, freeze them and express post them to him. Would still be cold when he got it. Sausage rolls, even cheesy toast.

[Oliver]

'Er indoors made bacon, cheese and onion scones today. Not damper, but pretty bloody good.

[lob]

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