Fabulous Camp Eggs

Eggs-on-a-Stick

Coat the bottom 3/4 of a paper lunch bag in vegetable oil. Add bacon and eggs into the bag. Roll the top of the bag over and punch a sturdy stick through it. Hold the bag over the fire and cook to your heart's content! Eggs can be scrambled or fried sunny-side up.

Eggs-in-a-Bag

Crack as many eggs as you'd like into a sturdy Ziploc bag (the freezer bags are recommended). Add onion, peppers, ham or whatever else you'd like. Cheese is not a good idea because during the cooking process the cheese gets much hotter than the eggs, and the bags may melt. Close the bag, getting out all the air you possibly can. Then the girls get to "smoosh" up their eggs to make them scrambled. Drop the bags into a pot of boiling water. Takes about 5-10 minutes to cook. If you are cooking with a number of girls, it might be a good idea to write names on the bags with permanent marker before cooking for easy identification. This is an especially good meal to make while you are camping and have to heat up your water for dishes since the pan itself never gets dirty, and you have your water already heated.

Egg-in-a-Hole

Take a piece of bread and butter it on both sides. Cut a hole out of its middle. Place bread on a hot skillet and crack an egg into the hole. When sufficiently cooked on the one side, flip over! You can fry the hole too. This is a great method of cooking an egg on a Tin Can Stove, since the egg can't run over the side of the can.

Egg Mc Muffins - Camp Style

Grease muffin tin wells with margarine. Break one egg into each compartment. Cover with a slice of ham and bake until egg is done. Top with slice of cheese and cook just until melted. Place in between toasted English muffin.

Non-Squishy Scrambled Eggs for the Masses

If there's one thing I hate about camp, it's scrambled eggs. They always end up being too soggy. Well a few years ago some of the other Camp Woolsey Staff and I perfected a way to cook large amounts of scrambled eggs without getting a soggy mess! This is designed for a residential camp setting where you have access to an oven.

Take the biggest cake pan you can find. Break all your eggs into the pan and add as much milk as you'd like. Set the oven to 350 deg F. (actually, 350F is the "magic temperature" - everything you could possibly cook at camp will cook... eventually, at this heat.) Place the pan in the oven and check every few minutes, using a flipper to scrape the cooked portions off the sides of the pan. For some reason once the whole pan of eggs is cooked, they aren't soggy. Mmm....


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