genuinegirly

The squashes sound pretty tasty. I'll have to try those.

Here's some fairly precise instructions on wrapping the food in foil that my mom dug up from an old camp manual:
To cook with aluminum foil, place the food on the shiny side of the foil. Allow enough foil to bring around the food crosswise, plus 3 inches extra. Bring the two long edges together on top of the food and fold down in several small, continuous folds. Then flatten both ends and roll them up in small folds. Place the package on the coals to cook, using fireproof gloves or tongs to turn it. Be careful not to puncture the foil. When the coals are very hot, and you are concerned about food burning, you can either cut two or three strips of newspaper the width of the package, roll the package in newspaper, and wrap it in another piece of foil. Or place vegetables which contain a high amount of moisture around the food (onion slices or cabbage leaves for hamburgers or meat loaf).

And here are a bunch of camping-friendly recipes involving aluminum foil that she found from various cookbooks:

Frying eggs: the foil is folded into a frying pan and placed on the coals.

Steaming cocoa, make a pot from two thicknesses of foil by folding the way you fold a square of paper into a drinking cup, then flattening the bottom. The pot goes into the coals.


Hamburger a la foil: Cut up a potato into small pieces, as for french fries. Cut a carrot or two into "sticks". Pat 1/4 pound hamburger into a 3/4 inch thick cake. Place ingredients side by side on a piece of foil, sprinkle with salt and pepper, use mustard, dry onion soup mix or butter (all optional). Wrap in foil, place in coals, cook 15 minutes.

Cub scout hike dinner: Skinless boneless chicken breast, carrots, bell peppers, and potatoes in foil.

Kebabs in foil: Thread meat, onion, green pepper, and tomato cubes on a skewer or a thin stick. Wrap in double thickness of foil, place on coals, and cook for about 14 minutes.

Pigs in sleeping bags: Use biscuit dough. Pat into 1/4 inch layer as long as the frankfurter and slighter wider than the frank's circumference. Put catsup, mustard, cheese, onions, etc. on the dough as desired and wrap dough around frankfurter Wrap foil around both, twisting the ends. Bake in medium-hot coals for 15 minutes.

Foil vegetables: Prepare vegetables exactly as you wish them served. For example, before cooking diced carrots and peas, the peas should be shelled, the carrots scraped and diced or sliced, and the whole washed just prior to wrapping. It doesn't hurt to add a small amount of water for steam, a dab of butter and seasoning. Corn on the cob, whole baked potatoes or yams require little preparation other than washing.

Mushrooms in foil: Drain juice off one can of large mushrooms. Place on sheet of foil. Top with butter or margarine, salt, pepper. Wrap securely. Place on coals for about 10-15 minutes.

Corn: Corn is delicious if first wrapped in a wet brown paper bag, then in wet newspaper, and cooked directly over hot coals.

Biscuits: Cut or form the dough into rounds or squares that are about 1/2 inch thick. Wrap each biscuit separately in a square of aluminum foil, leaving enough room for the dough to rise. Bake 10 minutes.

Baked apple: core apple. Fill the cored apple with walnut, cinnamon, nutmeg, sugar, raisins, and marshmallow. Place in middle of a piece of aluminum foil. Bring corners up over apple; then twist them together. Cook about 20 minutes, 10 minutes each side.

Banana boat: Cut and remove a lengthwise wedge from the inner curve of a banana. Fill with chocolate and marshmallows or raisins and marshmallows. Place banana skin over the top. Wrap in aluminum foil, place in hot coals for 5 minutes.

Cupcake or Muffin inside orange: Cut top off orange and remove insides. Pour cake or muffin batter into the shell until it is about 2/3 full. Replace the lid of the orange. Wrap it in foil and bake on the coals about 20/30 minutes. The cake or muffin will have an orange flavor.

Peach yums: Place half a canned or fresh peach on a sheet of aluminum foil. Put large marshmallow in center. Fold and wrap foil, sealing tightly. Bake on grill over coals or low fire for 5-10 minutes, turning several times.

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