The Backcountry Recipe Book, Version 3.1
version 1.0: January, 1995.
version 1.3: April, 1996 
version 2.0: June, 1996 
version 2.1: August, 1996
version 3.0: February, 1998
version 3.1: March, 1998
for ESAR post 616 which got us into the mountains (hard core!!) and all other 
outdoor enthusiasts.

 SOURCE:   http:.gorp.com/gorp/food/recipe.htm 

 See also Great Outdoor Recreation Pages (GORP)  http://www.gorp.com 



I. Introduction
Welcome to the backcountry recipe book. This section will explain the contents 
listed on the Table of Contents, describe how the book can best be used, and 
give acknowledgements. For lunchtime recipes more appropriate for car campers, 
click here.
or you can jump to the Table of Contents.
To start, the recipe book was the idea of Kelly Naylor and David Rosenberg, and 
it's intent is to provide a collection of food ideas which can be used in the 
back country while camping/skiing/hiking/backpacking/etc.. After going on a 
winter mountaineering trip, in which rather bland and uninteresting food was 
prepared and (sometimes) eaten, we wanted to find some cool recipes to try and 
enjoy eating in the wilderness. Eating, we believe, is one of the wilderness's 
still hidden pleasures, and should be cherrished. Below are our collections, 
sent in from globe-spanning Internet-ers, and we offer them to you as food 
possibilities to incorporate into your own backcountry diet. Each author's 
recipe-related antidote is included (as available); hopefully the stories will 
add interest and spark enthusiasm for an otherwise, ordinary food book. For some 
human reason, the backcountry has always consisted, in part, of telling stories, 
and we wanted to include that aspect in our book.
Please keep in mind that the recipes are other's ideas--most we have not even 
tried ourselves--and that at *some* time, because a backcountry user volunteered 
them to us, the recipe was delicious!! Of course, when you first try it on some 
exposed, wind blown mountaintop in an unplanned bivy, things and taste may turn 
out a tad bit different. ;)
Of course, feel free to join this food community, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE submit 
your own recipe ideas--big or small, recipe or just thoughts, stories and/or 
experience: knowledge is only useful when shared. 
To add structure to this consortium of ideas, we have grouped recipes according 
to their most appropriate Table of Contents' listing. The Assorted section was 
born because the submissions within were either: (a) not classifiable in any of 
the other topics, or (b) so densly packed with cool suggustions applying to many 
different sections that I did not want to lose the author's general concepts by 
chopping and scattering the individual suggustions. At the beginning of each 
recipe section, we have included a further explanation of the types of recipes 
described within (to help you better access the recipes you would like to try). 
Also, we have included some of our thoughts on preparing food which relates to 
the topic and documented observations, gained from our own, personal, 
backcountry experiences. Mostly our introductions are just considerations, 
things to think about when you meal plan; nothing we (or any of the other 
contributers) say, by far, is absolute or written in stone.
At the bottom of the Table of Contents is a link to the Recipe Index, which 
lists the names of each recipe idea (categorized by section as they appear in 
the text) as local hyperlinks. We've included the listing as an index so that 
the links do not clog the Table of Contents. Please note that some recipe ideas 
listed under the Breakfast/Lunch/Dinner/etc actually come from the assorted or 
assorted vegetarian sections. The Recipe Index is intended to concisely show the 
reader what recipe ideas are available under a given topic. 
A note of caution: our recipe book is not intended to provide comprehensive meal 
planning for extended trips; comprehensive planning requires a food philosophy 
(i.e.: what is most nutritious/caloric/tasty food substance for given weight, 
etc, which is the domain of diet experts and YOURSELF); such planning depends on 
individual trip circumstances and varies for each backcountry user. We don't 
want to preach a food philosophy, rather we just want to provide tasty 
alternative ideas to substitute into your own meals. Hopefully, by reading our 
book, you'll want to try a few new ideas--or maybe just one recipe from one of 
our sections--on your upcoming trip. Good Luck, and happy (improved) eating on 
the trails!!
Special Thanks go out to David Damouth, who forwarded me over 25 pages of raw, 
unedited, recipe material, and everyone who contributed recipe ideas. Thank you 
for the Technical Support from the folks at GORP, who did the version 1.0 HTML 
coding (before I learned HTML myself) and wrote the first version of the Recipe 
Submission Form processor program. Finally, thank you authors for taking the 
time to share with the outdoors community: we appreciate it!! 
I have tried to give proper credit to all authors, although with our over 200+ 
contributions, that has been difficult. If you see a recipe that is your idea 
and your name isn't mentioned, please email back, so that your name can be 
included in updates.
Finally, since the information and ideas contained herewithin are for the public 
domain, it is inappropriate to sell reproductions of this book or any section 
thereof.
Enough of the editorializing. Enjoy eating the recipes :)
David Rosenberg
der10@cornell.edu
2-15-94



Table of Contents: 
  Introduction 
  Breakfasts 
  Lunch/Trail Snacks 
  Dinners 
    Tasty Deserts 
  Meat Dishes 
  Assorted (lots of non-related, really good ideas!!) 
  Assorted Vegitarian 
  Further Reading, Other Suggested Recipe Books 
  Recipe Index 
  Submit your own Recipe Idea--Do it!! 
  Comment Form--to offer suggustions on how to improve the Backcountry Recipe 
  Book. 



Recipe Index 
A hyperlinked listing of the recipes which are in each section. Please note some 
ideas listed under each main-meal (breakfast/lunch/dinner) actually come from 
the assorted or assorted vegatarian sections. section. 
  Breakfasts
    Lizy's Breakfast JANK 
    Muffins 
    Oatmeal Alternatives 
    Breakfast Breads 
    Baking Breads 
    Breakfast Cereals 
    Simple Hot Granola 
    PowerCakes 
    Basic Biscuit Mix 
    Jim Hewein's Sourdough Pancakes 
    Pancakes 
    Eggs in the Backcountry 
    Eggs 
    Eggs 3 
    Milk, Butter, + Oatmeal Add-ins 
    Instant Oatmeal 
    Instant Oatmeal 2 
    Oatmeal Hotcakes 
    Hedonistic Eggs 
    EZ Donuts 
    Fruit & Cinamin Rice 
    Granola Stuff 
    Breakfast for the Chocolate Lover 
    mayonnaise and eggs 
  Lunch/Trail Snacks
    GORP Flavor Recipes 
    Pitas + Spreads 
    Lunch Variety Problems Solved 
    Pita Stuffings 
    Landsjager Sausage 
    Help on Lunch! 
    Granola 
    Tortillas + Vegis 
    Bread Possibilities 
    Weird Food Ideas 
    Oysters 
    Gourmet Trail Foods 
    Dehydrated Beer 
    Logan Bread 
    David Rosenberg's Rules of GORP 
    Pizza Pockets 
    Added idea to the cheese/peperoni lunch thing 
  Dinners
    Rice with Noodles 
    Pizza 
    Cornpones 
    (Reconstituted) Beans 
    Valerie Lepports' Dinner Ideas 
    Refried Beans--Dried 
    Chapaties 
    Rice Thingy 
    Beiging Dumplings 
    Papadams 
    Dino's Mystery Name 
    1st nite's canned dinner 
    Ceviche 
    Rock Soup 
    Flavored Rice + Chicken Tanderi 
    Fantastic Foods Brand Inovations 
    Italian Sauce Ideas 
    Dinner from the Bush 
    Dehydrated food @ Grocery store 
    Lipton Brand Dishes 
    Dumplings 
    Doughboys 
    Lentil Soup 
    Black Bean Soup 
    Kasha 
    1st Nite Meal 
    Pasta-cheese 
    Ramen Alternatives 
    Cheese Fondue 
    Cheap Dinners 
    Fab Freeze-dried Food + spice Ideas 
    Bisquick for Baking 
    Falafel 
    Fried Rice 
    Spaghetti Sauce 
    Better Pasta 
    White and Gado-gado sauces 
    Corn Tortillas with Mexan Rice 
    Leftover Lental Casserole 
    Hobo Stew 
    curry cous-cous 
    Pita Beginnings 
    Tortellini Supremo 
    sucuk and bulgur 
    Backpacking Burritos 
    Tsampa 
    Ramens Anyone? 
  Tasty Deserts
    Hard Candies + Instant Pudding 
    Instant Cheesecake 
    Ice Cream 
    Chocolate Brownies + Pudding 
    Rice Pudding 
    Mama Heller-Goley's Vinegar Pie 
    Bannana Boats 
    Fruit Compote 
    Instant Puddings 
  Meat Dishes
    Chicken Dehydration Cautions 
    Hamburger Drying I 
    Rice Stuffed Trout 
    Turkey-Bulgar Base 
    Chicken-veg Stir Fry 
    Shrimp Thingy Pasta 
    Hamburger Drying II 
    Making Beef Jerky 
    Drying Hamburger Algorithm (III) 
    Dried Hamburger 
    Beef Hash with Gravy 
    Quick Chili 
    East Meets West Stew 
    SETTLERS (brand) Dried Beef Recipes 
    ARMY FOOD (creamed beef on toast) 
    BARBECUED TROUT FILLETS 
    Grits and Grav 
    More on Beef Gravel 
    Beef Stoganoff 
    Unlikely Dump 
  Assorted
    Luca DeAlfero 
    David Damouth 
    Kate Gregory 
    Mike Engber 
    Tomp@vicom.com 
    Tom Polarsky 
    Timo Kiravuo 
    Stews & Lunch ideas 
    Pete and baking bread 
    Sjywalker 
    Ritz and Beens, Cheese & Rice only 
    Mike Engber II 
    Sean Gillery 
    Baking Bread, Making Cheese & Yogarts 
    Dehydrator Notes 
    Waxed eggs idea 
  Assorted Vegetarian
    Raymond Pierrehumber 
    Frank 
    Peter Rayner 
    Amy Alberts 
    David Rosenberg 
  Further Reading
    Recipes for a Small Planet 
    Well Fed Backpacker 
    Hungry Hikers Guide to Good Food 
    Sierra Club Guide... 
    Natural Foods for the Pack 
    More With Less 
    Gorp, Glop, and Glue Stew 
    Supermarket Backpacker 
    One Burner Gourmet 
    NOLS Cookery 
    Simple Foods for the Pack 
    Recipes from the Campfire Gourmet 
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