Preparing a Foil Dinner
Ingredients needed for ONE dinner.
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1/4 lb of hamburger meat |
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1/2 onion |
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1 potato |
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1 carrot |
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Fresh mushrooms, optional but highly recommended! |
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2 large slices of butter |
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Salt, pepper and Mrs Dash. |
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2 sheets of heavy duty aluminum foil, 1 1/2 ft long. |
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Non stick spray |
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Step 1
Form hamburger in a patty.
Cut the onion, potatoes and carrots into slices no
more than 1/2 inch thick
Place aluminum foil on flat surface.
Spray 1 foot circular area in center of foil lightly
with non stick spray.
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Step 2
Place one slice of butter in the center of the
foil. |
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Step 3
Position the hamburger patty on top of slice of butter. |
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Step 4
Sprinkle sliced onion, potato, carrot and whatever else, on
top of the hamburger. |
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Step 5
Place 2nd slice of butter on top of the vegetables and sprinkle
generously with seasonings. |
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For the following steps, keep in mind that you want your foil
dinner to be as compact, flat and
air tight as possible.
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Step 6
Grab the opposite edges of the foil sheet and pull upward
until the edges meet. |
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Step 7
Roll these two edges together tightly.
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Step 8
Now flatten the dinner firmly.
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Step 9
Roll the ends of the foil dinner tightly toward the center. |
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Step 10
Flip the dinner over, and place in the center of the second
sheet of foil. Repeat the folding and rolling process. |
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It should look like this when you are done!
Packed and airtight!
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Refrigerate until ready for use. The foil dinner may also be
frozen, and used later. |
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Building a fire for a foil dinner.
For a charcoal fire: Use 3 large bags of charcoal for every
20 foil dinners.
Regular fire: Build with hard wood, and wait for lots of coals.
Indoors campers: Set oven on 400.
Spread coals out evenly in a rectangle shape and place foil
dinners 2 inches apart. Cook for 10 minutes on each side, depending
of the temperature of the fire. Be careful when flipping dinners,
not to poke a hole in the foil.
Carefully remove foil dinners from fire and allow to cool.
Open dinner and chow down with ketchup, mustard or other condiments. |
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Hints & Tips:
Other meat may be substituted for hamburger like, steak, chicken
or fish.
Add other vegetables as you like.
A 3rd sheet of foil may be added for better results in cooking.It helps keep it sealed.
Have boys prepare their own dinner at home and bring it to the camp out for use as the first meal of the camp out.
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