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Old 10-14-2005, 06:55 PM
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Ok - here is a traditional Australian bush feed.
It can only be cooked one way, and that is with coals.

Damper
A traditional form of Australian bread.

Ingredients:
2 cups self-rising flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 tespoons sugar
3 tablespoons butter
1 cup milk
Method:
Mix the flour, salt and sugar together in a bowl. Cut in the butter until fine crumbs form. Add milk to make a soft dough. Knead lightly on floured board until smooth. Shape into round loaf, brush with milk.
Dig a hole in the sand, put 2 shovels of hot coals in hole. Place a light sprinkling of sand on the coals. Cover loaf with aluminium foil. Place loaf on sand covered coals, cover with another shovel of coals. Leave for 30 mins or so.
In the absence of a traditional "bush oven" - 30/40 mins at 190C(375F) in a conventional oven.

Baked Barramundi

Ingredients:
1 2 kg (5lb) Barramundi
2 tbspns Butter (melted)
1 Onion (finely chopped)
1 tbspn Olive oil
1 cup Breadcrumbs
1 tbspn Lemon juice
1/4 cup Seeded raisins
1 Lemon (sliced)
1 tbspn Honey
Pepper and salt to taste

Method:
Melt the oil in a frypan over some coals and saute the onion until it is soft
Make the stuffing by mixing the onion, breadcrumbs, raisins and honey in a bowl with the melted butter
Make deep transverse cuts in the fleshy outer part of the fish on both sides
Brush it inside and out with the olive oil and lemon juice mixed together, then dust with pepper and salt.
Push the stuffing into the stomach cavity and lay the lemon slices along the upper side of the fish.
Wrap the fish in alluminium foil. Dig another hole in the sand, get 2 shovels of hot coals, place them on bottom of the hole. Place fish on coals. Place a further 2 shovels of hot coals on.
Again, in absence of a true bush oven, bake in an oven pre-heated to 200C for 40 minutes, the last 10 without the top sheet of foil