Campfire Bread on a Stick Recipe (2024)

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One of life's greatest simple pleasures... Fluffy, delicious bread baked over a campfire. This no knead bread on a stick is so fun to make, and even more to eat!

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The Tradition of Bread on a Stick

Making bread over a campfire is one of the rites of passage that everyone should experience. Scouts and forest school children are often taught how to make stickbread. It's a great way to learn about outdoor skills, and a great reward to enjoy! In England bread cooked on a stick is known as damper. In Denmark Snobrød is associated with the concept of hygge - a feeling of coziness, contentment and everyday togetherness. It really is such a good feeling to enjoy fresh bread you have made yourself whilst enjoying the beauty and power of nature! And it's a great activity for everyone to enjoy together. Food for the soul!

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How to make the dough

The dough is a yeast based dough, so this recipe requires a little patience - but good things come to those that wait! You can make the dough first, and then start gathering wood for your campfire. By the time the you have a campfire with good embers to cook over, your dough will have risen.

The mix is really easy, just combine flour, yeast, sugar, water, oil and salt. There's no need to knead it, just mix until combined. Our recipe uses cups so it's easy for you to measure when you are out camping. No scales needed!

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Choosing your stickbread sticks

The best sticks for cooking over a campfire are long enough that you can hold them a comforatble distance from the fire. Around 1.5m is good. You can also prop them up using a rock for easier cooking.

Freshly cut greenwood is good because it's moister and won't burn so easily. Strip the bark using a sharp knife, pointed away from you. This is always a good task to give to a child keen to work on their whittling skills!

As the wood comes into contact with food, it's a good idea to choose a stick from a non poisonous tree species. Try fruit woods e.g. Apple, Pear, Plum, or Beech, Oak, Sycamore. "Dogwood, ash, maple and elm make good marshmallow sticks; safe but plain" Paul Hetzler on Choosing the Right Stick For Marshmallows.

We like to put our stick in the flame for a bit to sterilise it, and preheat it a little.

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Cooking your bread on a stick

Once you've got your sticks, dough and fire ready... Empty the dough from the bowl onto a well floured board. Using floured hands, knock the air out out of it, and bring it into a ball, and divide into the number of bread on a sticks that you want to make. 8 is a good number for this amount of dough.

Stretch out your divided pieces of dough, and then gently roll into long sausage shapes.

Twist around your the end of your sticks, and pinch the end together to secure the strip if necessary.

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The best part of the fire to cook over is hot embers. Flames are tempting, but often too hot and likely to burn. You want a nice even heat so your bread is light and fluffy on the inside, and browned and crusty on the outside. YUM!

Keep rotating the bread so you cook all sides evenly.

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Quick, your stickbread is ready!

When your bread is browned on all sides, it's ready to enjoy. You can have a little competition over who found the best spot to bake their bread on a stick!

You can eat the bread straight off the stick.... Tear open, unravel and admire the beautifully fluffy inside!

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You can also slide the bread off the stick when it has cooled a little, And then fill up the hole with jam. We use our fave Apricot Jam. Oh yes!

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We hope you enjoy making your bread on a stick! More great fun vegan camping recipes here:

Campfire Brownie
Wild Blueberry Pancakes
Campfire Dessert Calzone

Happy baking!

Sophie and Paul

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Campfire bread on a stick

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What's better than fluffy, fresh bread that you've cooked over a campfire in the great outdoors...

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Prep Time: 10 minutes minutes

Cook Time: 10 minutes minutes

Resting Time: 1 hour hour

Total Time: 1 hour hour 20 minutes minutes

Makes: 8 stickbreads

Course: Snack

Cuisine: Campfire

Ingredients

  • 1 tsp dried yeast
  • 1 tsp sugar
  • 2 ½ cups (300 g) flour
  • cup (200 ml) warm water
  • 2 tbsp (30 ml) olive oil
  • 1 tsp salt

Instructions

Dough

  • In a large bowl, mix all the ingredients into a moist dough. No need to knead!

  • Cover the bowl and let the dough rise in a warm place until it has doubled in size - about 1 hour.

  • With floured hands, briefly 'knock back' the dough by making it into a ball.

  • Tip the dough out onto a floured surface and divide into 8 pieces.

Shaping your stickbreads

  • Start by stretching the dough into a strip and then roll it into a long sausage shape.

  • Twist a strip around the end of your sticks. Pinch the dough together to secure the end if necessary.

Cooking over a campfire

  • Either hold or prop up your stick over the fire.

  • Choose a spot over hot embers for best results.

  • Keep rotating until all sides are browned.

  • Enjoy your freshly baked bread!

Nutrition

Calories: 148kcal | Carbohydrates: 25g | Protein: 3g | Fat: 4g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Sodium: 292mg | Potassium: 38mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 1g | Calcium: 5mg | Iron: 1mg

This information is calculated per serving and is an estimate only.

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FAQs

How do you bake bread on an open fire? ›

Except for baking bread directly in the embers or on a stick, you are going to need a pot to bake your bread. Options include a Dutch oven or some combination of pots and pans to improvise an oven. The benefit of a Dutch oven, it being made of cast iron, is that it is good at distributing heat evenly around the pot.

What is the German food on a stick? ›

Steckerlfisch is a grilled fish on a stick immensely popular in Bavaria and Austria. It is an iconic beer garden menu food item and many know it as Oktoberfest fish on a stick because it is one of the best loved specialties offered on the Wiesn every year.

What is Snobrod? ›

Much more fun than grilled flatbread or pizza, pinnebrød is a dough you shape into a sausage link that is wrapped around a stick and grilled over an open fire. In Denmark pinnebrød is equally popular, but it is called snobrød, “sno” means to twist, so it translates to twisted bread.

What is food cooked on a stick called? ›

Shish kebab on a plate. In English, kebab, or in North America also kabob, often occurring as shish kebab, is now a culinary term for small pieces of meat cooked on a skewer.

How do you make wilderness bread? ›

The Bannock bread is a simple flatbread that is fried in a pan over the fire. It consists of flour, water, baking powder, salt, and fat or oil. Stock bread is a simple dough made of flour, sugar, water, and yeast, wrapped around a stick and baked over the fire.

Can I bake bread in my fireplace? ›

With a camp style dutch oven you can bake breads in a fireplace. Thants the kind that has a loop handle and uses a tripod to hang over a fire. Coals can also be placed on top with it's special shaped lid.

Can you bake on a campfire? ›

You'll need a good and steady supply of lit coals for the base (and in some cases, the top) of your baking vessel. Continually add unlit coals near the flames to keep them hot so you're not waiting for fresh coals. This is especially important if you're planning to bake for quite a while over the fire.

What is bacon called in Germany? ›

Bacon comes in a huge variety of different shapes and forms: British bacon, American streaky bacon, Canadian bacon, German Frühstückspeck, Tuscan lardo or the infamous guanciale made from pork cheeks, to name but a few.

What is the most eaten food in Germany? ›

Whilst there are regional variations in food culture, most German recipes focus heavily on bread, potatoes, and meat, especially pork, as well as plenty of greens such as types of cabbage and kale. Cake, coffee, and beer are all highly popular elements of German cuisine too - which will be good news to most!

What is the Japanese food on a stick? ›

Yakitori. If you aren't very adventurous with food, yakitori is your safest Japanese street food to try. It consists of small pieces of meat skewered on a stick and grilled over a charcoal fire.

What is Mt Athos Fire Bread? ›

Athos Fire Bread it is a large loaf with a very crisp almost black crust with a dense crumb on the darker side in color and they also have what they call the Farm bread it is kind of like a rustic Italian.

Can you cook food on a wood fire? ›

If you are planning on cooking over a fire, fuel choice is more important than normal. You want to use wood that does not smoke much, give a reasonable heat and burns slowly. Hardwoods such as oak, ash and beech are best for steady heat, as they burn for a long time.

What vegetables are good over a fire? ›

Veggies: almost anything works but our favourites are potatoes, small sweet potatoes, broccolini, asparagus, corn on the cob, carrots, asparagus, beetroot and plenty of others.

Can you cook food on a fire table? ›

Fire pit tables are primarily designed for creating a warm and inviting atmosphere in outdoor spaces, but some models can also be used for cooking or grilling purposes. There are fire pit tables with built-in grills or griddles, which can be used for cooking food such as burgers, hot dogs, and vegetables.

What is to cook food especially meat outdoors over a fire? ›

barbecue, an outdoor meal, usually a form of social entertainment, at which meats, fish, or fowl, along with vegetables, are roasted over a wood or charcoal fire. The term also denotes the grill or stone-lined pit for cooking such a meal, or the food itself, particularly the strips of meat.

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