Progression in Outdoor Cooking

Cooking is a progressive learning skill. The steps in the progression are based on what the girls can safely and successfully do for themselves.

Observer Simple one-pot cookery:
  • soup or cocoa
Discoverer One-pot Meal Cookery:
  • Campfire Stew
  • Sloppy Joes
  • Bags of Gold
  • Fractured Tacos
  • Gingerbread Dumplings in Hot Applesauce     (Drop by spoonfuls in hot applesauce; Cook 20 minutes, covered over coals.)
Explorer Small Frying Pan: (fry bacon first, to provide oil for)
  • Pancakes (can add fruit or vegetable)
  • French Toast
  • Eggs
Buddy Burners
Adventurer Toasting:
  • Sandwiches: cheese, meat, jelly (Use forked stick, small fires, 2 or 3 girls to a fire.)
  • Some-mores
  • Marguerites (marshmallow, saltine, nut meat in split green stick.)
Wanderer Advanced Stick Cookery:
  • Mock Angel Food Cake
  • Kabobs
  • Bread Twists (doughboys)
  • Pioneer Drumsticks
Rover Foil Cookery:
  • Biscuits
  • Hamburgers
  • Vegetables
  • Pork Chops
Vagabond
On Your Own
Program Aide
  • Reflector or Box Oven
  • Baking and steaming in coals
  • Planking
  • Paperbag Cookery
- From "Girl Scouts - Totem Council Day Camp Staff Program Manual"
Cooking Progression

Meal Planning

Recipes

Dunk Bag Dish Washing

Fire Building

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