re: Boy Scout Peach Cobbler

The first campout I ever went on was to the Rolling Fork National Forest a little east of Rolling Fork, MS. I was a young Tenderfoot, age 12, Year 1961. Mr. Delozier was our Scoutmaster of Troop 12 in Clinton. Mr. Taylor and Mr. Callihan (Town Fire Chief) were the Leaders on the campout. We went to sleep that night and woke up to 4 inches of snow on the ground. I really wasn't prepared for that weather. I spent most of the second night shivering beside the fire. Got a Polar Bear Patch though (Camping in below freezing weather).

Anyhow, Mr. Taylor made a stew that second night with stew meat, potatoes, carrots and tomato paste. Was the best campout dinner a tenderfoot could ever experience.

Eventually made Life Scout Rank. Should have made Eagle, but instead, I started working cooking hamburgers.

Both sons made Eagle. Really proud of them for accomplishing that. I went to Philmont with them on a 60 mile Trek. We slept on top of Baldy one night. Both of them worked waterfront for four years at Hood Scout Camp during high school years. They worked three of the four together. Both of them did the mile swim. One saved a kid from drowning and another time, saved a scoutmaster who sunk his boat, panicked and almost drowned.

I was assistant scoutmaster and then Scoutmaster of Troop 88 FUMC.

Good years and glad I made the commitment. I know there were a few men who tried to disgrace Scouting, but I have known some incredible men who served as Scouting leaders.

Yes, I made tinfoil meals, scuzzy eggs with Dutch Oven Biscuits, every stew you could imagine and made numerous scouts put the rattlesnake back where they found him. Camped in a rain storm so bad one night that a scout with an air mattress under his sleeping bag floated totally out of his tent, which he had set up in a dry creek bed, earlier when it was a beautiful sunny day with no rain expected.

We had a 2 gallon campfire coffeepot for the adult leaders. Made coffee right away when we would go camping with the grinds in a sock, tied up and thrown in the pot. parked it beside the fire to keep it warm/hot. When we would run low we would untie the sock, add more coffee grinds and some more water. By the end of a three of four day camp was stout good.

That Lodge scout Dutch oven is the same as the one I showed in my post, I showed mine with the ring of coals around the top. I have used that small one I baked my oven cobbler in to make campfire cobbler a few times. If you are careful you can stack coals on top of the lid.