Jam Snails
Sweet yeast rolls rolled around jam, baked in a dutch oven and dusted with powdered sugar.
- calories
- 330
- weight
- 3.5 oz
- cal / oz
- 94
- protein
- 7 g
- serves
- 8, scales
- prep
- 25 min
- cook
- 30 min
- total time
- 55 min
- water
- none
- cost
- $
Calorie and protein figures are my own estimates, good enough for planning a food bag and not meant as precise nutrition data.
- Dessert
- Breakfast
- Dutch oven
- Car camping
- Basecamp
- Vegetarian
- Real dishes
- Pre-mix at home
- Shelf stable
- Actual cooking
Ingredients
| White bread flour | 3 1/2 cups | fine 000 flour if you can find it |
|---|---|---|
| Instant dry yeast | 2 tsp | instant, not fresh, so it keeps in the pack |
| Powdered whole milk | 1/3 cup | reconstituted with 1 cup warm water |
| Sugar | 1/3 cup | |
| Powdered whole egg | 3 tbsp | stands in for one whole egg and two yolks |
| Salt | 1 tsp | |
| Butter or shortening | 4 tbsp | softened; some for the dough, some for the pot |
| Thick fruit jam | 3/4 cup | apricot or plum, the stiffer the better |
| Powdered sugar | 3 tbsp | for dusting at the end |
Method
- Stir the yeast, powdered milk, powdered egg, sugar, and salt into the flour while everything is still dry.
- Add 1 cup of warm water and 3 tbsp of the butter. Mix in the pot, then knead on a clean pot lid or cutting board for about eight minutes, until the dough stops sticking to your hands.
- Cover and leave it somewhere warm for an hour. In cool weather set the pot near the fire ring, not on it.
- Press the dough into a rough rectangle about a finger thick. Spread the jam over it, leaving a bare inch along one long edge.
- Roll it up toward the bare edge and cut into eight rounds. Grease the dutch oven with the last of the butter and set the rounds in cut side up, not touching.
- Lid on. Bake with roughly eight coals underneath and sixteen on top for 25 to 30 minutes, rotating the pot and the lid a quarter turn every ten minutes.
- Let them cool a few minutes, then sift the powdered sugar over the top.
This is a bakery roll rebuilt for a fire ring. Fresh milk and eggs are the two things that will not ride in a pack, so both come as powder and rehydrate in the same water that hydrates the dough. Instant yeast replaces fresh cake yeast for the same reason: it lives in the flour bag for months and does not care about temperature swings.
The jam has to be thick. A runny one soaks into the dough during the rise and the rolls bake into a wet layer instead of a spiral. Coal placement matters more than the count on the lid, so keep the heat weighted toward the top and turn the pot regularly or the bottom scorches before the middle sets.
Packing
Combine flour, yeast, powdered milk, powdered egg, sugar, and salt in one gallon bag at home. Butter goes in a screw-top jar, jam in a second jar or a squeeze tube, powdered sugar in a small bag.
Variations
- Swap the jam for cinnamon sugar and chopped dried apple if you are worried about a jar leaking.
- No dutch oven: bake them in a covered foil pan on a grill grate over low coals, checking at twenty minutes.
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