Backwoods Cooking Programme

This Friday the Kingfisher patrol supplied the programme.

They chose a program that revolved around backwoods cooking. That means cooking without any utensils, cutlery or crockery similar to a real life survival scenario.

After playing our opening game we as patrols were issued with our resources-a flint, flour, a can of beens and the food we had grown in our patrol gardens. 

We grouped and it was decided that Tj, Caleb and Solomon were to work on the fire under my supervision and Andrew and Henno  were to handle the food.

Finding enough firewood was an issue on its own and great portion of our(Caleb,TJ Solomon and I) time was spent collecting sticks and branches in the yard.

While we were busy  collecting firewood Andrew and Hannno harvested the vegetables and prepped them for the soup.  They also prepared the beens to go onto the fire by wrapping them in tinfoil. 

After struggling to light the fire with the flint I spoke to Andrew, who has recently attended the scout backwoodsman course, and we decided to switchs places temporarily for me mix the dough with Henno in our hands and for him to light the fire, which now had sufficient fuel.

 Andrew insured that the fire was built properly and we finished our tasks at  roughly the same time.

Andrew then continued to prepare the food to go on the fire while Solomon collected wood for the fire and I helped Caleb and TJ complete our STA's.

Caleb was tasked with creating a game for our AGM and with a bit of creative input from me we divided a hybrid version of duster hockey.

This is how it is played:

Cubs and scouts form two parellal lines from tallest to shortest .

Each cub is grouped with the scout next to them to insure that competing pairs are evenly matched and the pairs  are assigned  to two teams based on stature.

Once in two teams the pairs remain grouped and given numbers from 1 to the number of pairs in the group (Smallest pair, lowest number)

Two balls are thrown into the center of the hall at the start of each match, one for scouts and one for cubs.

The pairs then have to hold on to each others for arms and when their numbers are called try score in the other teams goal box, co operating to ensure they score with both balls.

TJ made the water filter STA, acquiring cottonwool from the quartermaster and using an empty water bottle.

I set up the table to serve the judge and wrote the meni

Ultimately everything was served on time and everything was served hot.

Bear was impressed and we won oar!