Boy Scout Peach Cobbler

It has been a little too cold here for my old body to do this recipe on a campfire out in the woods, so I decided to cook my outside, on a campfire treat inside, in the oven. When I was a scoutmaster here in Clinton, we would take up to 85 scouts camping sometime every month. They loved it and the adult leaders endured it. I always said there should be an Adult Men version of Boy Scouts, so we could camp without the hassle of young guys running wild all night long while you are trying to sleep. I guess that's deer camp, or catfishing off a sand bar on the Louisiana side of the Mississippi River below Vicksburg

During my Scoutmaster days, we had 18 BSA 8-quart Dutch Ovens



and we tried to always cook Peach cobbler for the kids when we camped. You have never been stressed out until you are down to the last two Dutch ovens of cobbler and see 20 or so scouts still in line to get their serving. Not knowing how many of them are lined up for their first bowl and how many quickly woofed down their cobbler and snuck back into line for second helpings helped none at all.

A campfire Dutch oven has legs and an inverted lid so you can place it over coals to heat the bottom and lay coals on top to heat the top. You can buy one (5 QT-Ozark Trail brand) at Walmart for $30.00, or elsewhere for up to $150.00, depending on size and brand. The campfire Dutch Oven will normally make a cobbler in 30-40 minutes, if the cook knows what they are doing. Mine is in the cabinet out on the screen porch with my fish fryer, so I decided to use my trusty old 6 quart cast iron pot. It works fine and makes a pretty good Boy Scout Cobbler in the oven, Here is the recipe I used.

Need:

1 or 2 large cans of sliced peaches. I like the ones packed in juice, but used heavy syrup for this one, which I made using only one can of peaches. The heavy syrup makes a sweeter cobbler than I like, but we still managed to eat all of it and send a big bowl to our next door neighbor.

1 yellow cake mix - I only used half of it because I was making a half recipe cobbler.

2 sticks of butter - I only used 2/3 of a stick



You can use a bit of cinnamon if you like. I didn't use any

Vanilla Ice Cream - Cheap store brand works just fine, or go with the $10.00 a gallon stuff if you like.



I preheat the oven to 325 and spray the inside of my Dutch Oven with pam. Then in goes the peaches.



Followed by the half box of (cheap) Yellow Cake mix,



and the 2/3 stick off butter sliced on top of the cake mix.



On goes the lid



and into the oven.



1 hour later, out it comes for a 15 minute cool down





I have years of practice, working out how much Ice Cream is needed with the size serving of cobbler I spoon into my bowl.





You can use any canned fruit, Peaches, Pears, Dark Plums, Cherries, Apples, even Fruit Cocktail.

Thanks for looking.