Camp Griddle Bread with Honey Butter
Dry ingredients premixed at home, water added at camp, risen overnight in the tent, fried in the morning.
- calories
- 410
- weight
- 3 oz
- cal / oz
- 137
- protein
- 7 g
- serves
- 4, scales
- prep
- 15 min
- cook
- 10 min
- total time
- 25 min
- water
- 180 ml cold
- cost
- $
Calorie and protein figures are my own estimates, good enough for planning a food bag and not meant as precise nutrition data.
- Breakfast
- Snack
- Campfire coals
- Grill grate
- Canister stove
- Car camping
- Basecamp
- Backpacking
- Canoe / raft
- Vegetarian
- Nut free
- Real dishes
- Pre-mix at home
- Shelf stable
- Actual cooking
Ingredients
| Bread flour | 2 cups | |
|---|---|---|
| Active dry yeast | 2 1/4 tsp | one standard packet |
| Salt | 1 tsp | |
| Sugar | 1 tsp | |
| Butter | 1/4 cup | for the glaze |
| Honey | 2 tbsp | |
| Oil or butter | 2 tbsp | for the griddle |
Method
- At home, put the flour, yeast, salt, and sugar in a heavy freezer bag and squeeze the air out.
- At camp the night before, pour in about 180 ml of warm water and knead the bag from the outside until the dough comes together and turns sticky.
- Leave the bag somewhere warm overnight. Inside the tent near your feet works; it needs to roughly double.
- In the morning, get a griddle or pan hot over the coals and slick it with oil or butter.
- Pinch off a quarter of the dough, flatten it into a disc, and fry it two to three minutes a side until it browns.
- Mash the butter and honey together and spread it on while the bread is still too hot to hold.
The whole trick is that yeast does not care where it rises. Mixing dry at home and hydrating at camp means you carry flour, not dough, and the overnight rise happens while you are asleep anyway.
Do not skip the honey butter and call it a savings. Plain fried flatbread is filler; with the glaze it is the reason people get out of the bag in the morning.
Packing
The dry mix is one bag. Butter and honey ride in a screw-top jar; premixing them at home saves a step at camp.
Variations
- Cinnamon and sugar instead of the honey butter.
- Press a piece of hard cheese into the disc before frying.
Luke Nichols' camp bread on the Outdoor Boys channel, catalogued at outdoorboysalmanac.com.