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Pot Luck Stew

Notes

  • Serves- 6 Scouts
  • Cooking time- Varies 15-45 Minutes
  • Cost- Varies £1-£3
  • Difficulty- 7/10 (Need brains to work out sequence of events)
  • Verdict- 0/10 to 10/10 depending on result

Ingredients

  • Medium Onion
  • Cooking Oil
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt and Pepper
  • 2 Large Tins from List 1 - (Can be same or different)
  • 2 Large Tins from List 2 - (Can be same or different)
  • 2 Items from List 3
  • 1 or 2 Items from List 4

List 1 - Main

  1. Meat Chunks
  2. Curried beef
  3. Hot Dogs sliced up
  4. Minced beef
  5. Tuna fish
  6. Corned Beef
  7. Chunky chicken soup
  8. Chunky beef soup
  9. Chunky veg soup
  10. Chopped Mushrooms

List 2 - Veg

  1. Baked beans
  2. Butter beans
  3. Kidney beans (Wash before using)
  4. Marrowfat peas
  5. Chopped tomatoes
  6. Minestrone soup
  7. Mushrooms
  8. Sweetcorn
  9. Mixed Veg
  10. Carrots
  11. Sweet and Sour Sauce
  12. Barbeque Sauce

List 3 - Taste

  1. 2 crumbled up beef oxo cubes
  2. Desert spoon Italian Mixed herbs
  3. 2" Garlic paste
  4. Desert spoon gravy granules
  5. 5 glugs Soy sauce
  6. 5 glugs Tabasco Sauce
  7. Small pot single cream
  8. 5 glugs Worcestershire sauce
  9. 2 good shakes of Brown sauce
  10. Desert spoon dried Ginger
  11. Desert spoon dried Mint
  12. Desert spoon Chilli Powder
  13. Desert spoon Curry Powder

List 4 - Stodge

  1. Pasta + dash oil
  2. Rice
  3. Mashed Potatoes + butter + milk
  4. Bread and butter
  5. Pitta bread
  6. Naan Bread
  7. Tortillas
  8. Tesco 9" bread roll (Stew sandwich)
  9. Green Salad
  10. Mixed Salad

Equipment

  • 1 large billy - for Stew
  • 1 Large billy - if "stodge" needs to be cooked
  • Sharp knife - for some items
  • Wooden spoon

Instructions

  • Some ingredients take different times to cook, so you will have to work out what time you start everything so that it is all finished at the same time
  • Drain anything in brine or liquid
  • Peel the onion and chop it into small pieces about the size of a pea
  • Put the oil in the billy and fry the onions until they go brown
  • Empty the ingredients that takes the longest to cook into the billy
  • Stir in the "Taste" from list 3, the salt and pepper, and put it back on the fire
  • Add the contents of the other tin when needed so that they all finish at the same time
  • Cook Stodge if necessary

Tips

  • To drain liquid out of a tin use your tin opener to make a hole in the bottom and another in the top, then the liquid will pour out the bottom hole. Remove top lid to serve
  • If you are using an open fire then rub washing up liquid onto the bottom of the billy before you start and it will be easier to clean afterwards
  • Put a billy of hot water on for the washing up while you are cooking your meal, then you can get on with straight with it before the plates get too nasty
  • Put warm water and a squirt of washing up liquid in dirty pans before you sit down to eat and they won't be so hard to clean

Serving Suggestions

Pick some of the following to complete the meal.
  • Sprinkle with dried Parmesan cheese
  • Sprinkle with crushed up ready salted crisps
  • Add a knob of butter
  • Serve with natural yogurt and cucumber dip

Idea

Suggestion from Giles Ayling

Buy enough ingredients from the list so that every Patrol could cook a meal, and then throw a dice, i.e. Patrol 1 get a tin of stewing steak, Patrol 2 a tin of tuna etc., so that each patrol ended up with a unique meal - Just an idea.

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