Recept: stap-voor-stap paardenbloem jam maken

Zie voor het recept http://siegurd.adamsyoung.nl/paardenbloem-jam

Making birch syrop - part 2

After you collected the syrup, it's time to boiled. Put the birch sap in a large pan and bring it to boiling point. This is 10 liters.

After a few hours the sap will be reduced to 6 liters.

Put the gas lower because if you boil it to hard then the sugars will burn and you will have a bitter burned taste. After 5 hours the juice is reduced to just 1 liter.

Go on until you have only 400 ml over. Filter the sap two times and place the sap, almost syrop, in al smaller pan and simmer it to just 100 ml. As you see it's not a lucrative business but it's a very tasteful.

Making birch syrop - part 1

Between march and april (before the tree got leaves), the birch trees got the most of sap and sugar. Making birch syrop is very easy and it's not causing problems to the trees. In Canada and Amerika they extract birch sap from a long time.
First of all you need birch trees. Second you need a bottle or jerrycan, a tube and maybe some rope. Beside you need a knife but with a drill is faster and better for the tree.

Make a hole, just 1,5 cm deep. You need to be in the Cambium of the tree. Make a round and nice hole. Place the tube into it and assure yourself that the sap only run through the tube.

Place the bottle. I prefer to put the bottle on the ground. It's easier and quicker. As you see I have made a hole in the cap. If you do so assure yourself to make a small hole as well so that the air can go out.

If you place the bottle in the evening then it will be full in the morning. When you are ready, cut a nice piece of wood slightly bigger then the hole. Make a blunt point and hit it into the hole. Don't use wood from the ground because there is to many bacteries on it and it's dangerous for the tree.

WEBSITE IS ONLINE!!!

The website is renewed and online!
It took a while and I've not finished placing all the articles but it's a start and I hope you'll enjoy!
For now only the Dutch version is online, but you can use the Google translator. Later I will translate the text in English, but it will not be this year.

For all the dutch people, if you find something incorrect, if you suggestions, please let me know!

Enjoy!

www.siegurd.nl

Drying Penny Bun

This week I found two beautiful big Penny Buns (Boletus Edulis) and now they are drying outside.
The best way for drying mushrooms is to cut them in thin slices and then lace them up on a string and put them in the dry air outside. You can also put the mushrooms in a 100 degrees oven for about 2 hours.

After that you have to put the dried mushrooms in a clean jar and closed well and this is the result and it smells heavenly!!!

Delicious appelcake with Dutch Oven

(This recipe is written in Dutch and translated with Google translator, that is much more faster for me. I'm sorry for errors but I hope you'll understand. I think that the result will taste no less!)

This pie is so incredibly simple to make but fun to do because you do not need a oven. So you can just make it on the camp-site or in the wild but you need a Dutch Oven (Heksenketel / pan) and campfire.This recipe is fairly basic and can be supplemented with what is available. Think of plums, cinnamon, various berries, nuts, etc. 

Ingredients: 
 - 200 grams flour 
- 150 grams butter 
- 125 grams granulated sugar 
- 0.5 vanilla baking powder  
- 3 eggs 
- 4 (sour) apples 
- 100 grams raisins 
- 2 spoons lemon juice 

Preparation: 
Start by making a fire. It works best with briquettes, but Charcoal also works well if you keep a little eye and supplements where needed. I usually do this after a BBQ. Briquettes remain a long afterglow and there are ideal for a Dutch Oven to set up. You don't need to preheat the Dutch Oven like a conventional oven. 

Put the raisins for 15 minutes in hot water. Cut the apples in large pieces and place them in the Dutch Oven. Squeeze the juice from half a lemon over the apples and add the raisins. Sprinkle some sugar over the apple / raisin mixture and add a few cubes of butter (25 grams). 

Place the Dutch Oven on a few briquettes and close the lid. Place the apples in the Dutch Oven. 

Place 6-7 briquettes on the lid. The Dutch Oven is building in this way a uniform heat to the inside and apples will be heated.We will make now the batter. 

Place butter and sugar in a bowl and knead with your fingers into the butter sugar by squeezing. 

If it is a homogeneous paste place the eggs one by one and whisk the batter until it all is well mixed. Do that with a strong beat movement. 

Add the baking powder to the flour and sieve the whole in the batter. Mix together well. 

It should be soft and smooth batter. 

Open the lid of the Dutch Oven and spread the batter over the apples until everything is covered. You should hear the already delicious apples sizzling! 

Place the lid on the pan and cover it almost entirely with bricks (approx. 20 pieces). Bake in 40 to 45 minutes.Turn the lid a quarter turn every 10 minutes to avoid hot spots occur in some places and the cake will burn. 

Check the pie after 30 minutes. Prick occasionally with a clean skewer to see if the cake is cooked. 

Delicious with vanilla ice cream. Enjoy!


For step by step pictures, see here

Recipe: Cauliflower Fungus on toast

What a great mushroom is this! Looks beautiful, taste great!

Ingredients (for 1 person):

- 1 Cauliflower Fungus (10x10 cm)
- 1 clove garlic
- Dash of olive oil
- Small knob of butter
- salt
- pepper
- Fresh flat-leaf parsley for the garnish
- 2 slices of brown bread

Preparation:

This fungus is very nice but you should choose one that is still young and strong and not become brown.

Cut into 1 cm slices and wash it very good because lots of ground, insects and grass remains in it. Dep everything dry.

Add oil and butter to the pan and let it warm up.

Chop the garlic finely and add to the oil and butter. Do not let it brown.

Add the Cauliflower Fungus and cook well on both sides. Add salt and pepper.
Grill two slices of bread in olive oil.

Garnish bread with mushrooms and fresh cut parsley.

Enjoy!

 

See all the pictures step-by-step on the website: http://www.siegurd.nl/bushcraft/voedsel/voedsel_groenten_paddenstoel03.html

Recipe: Chantarel and Pied-de-Mouton on toast

One of the most satisfying things for me is finding edible mushrooms, and prepare them in a variety of tasty dishes. I prefer to prepare them without much additions because the mushrooms have lots of flavour of them self.

Below such a simple dish with much of taste.

Ingredients (for 1 person):

- Handful of Chanterelles
- Handful of Pied-de-Mouton
- 1 garlic clove
- Dash of olive oil
- Butter
- Salt
- Fresh flat-leaf parsley for garnish
- 2 slices of bread / bannock

Preparation:

Close your eyes and imagine yourself in a beautiful forest with a crackling fire! Weather was not on my side today but apart from the stove, pretend I'm outside.

1. Add oil and butter to the hot pan.
2. Chop the garlic finely and add to the oil and butter. Do not let it brown.
3. Add 30 seconds after the mushrooms and cook for 5 minutes. Add some salt.
4. Grill 2 slices of grilled bread / bannock in some olive oil.
5. Garnish bread with mushrooms and fresh cut parsley.

Enjoy!

See all the pictures step-by-step on the website: http://www.siegurd.nl/bushcraft/voedsel/voedsel_groenten_paddenstoel01.html

Update website - Stap voor stap een gerezen en gekruide bannock maken

Twee nieuwe gerechten toegevoegd aan de website:

Gerezen Bannock

>Zie hier het recept

Kruiden Bannock

>Zie hier het recept 

Eet smakelijk... oh ja, als je er één hebt gemaakt ben ik benieuwd naar het resultaat!

Update website - Stap voor stap een gepofte banaan met chocola maken

Ik ben geen toetjes fanaat maar voor gepofte banaan met chocola kun je mij wakker maken.
Een supereenvoudig gerecht maar een van de meest geschikte kampvuur gerechten ooit!
Smullen maar...

> Zie hier voor het recept

Update website - Stap voor stap een gepofte aardappel met spek maken

Weer een lekker gerecht geüploaded, speciaal voor op het kampvuur. Er zijn weinig dingen zo lekker als een gepofte aardappel dat rechtstreeks uit de kolen gehaald wordt en dat heerlijk zacht is geworden en nog een beetje naar verbrande kolen smaakt! Met spek, uien en kruiden is de aardappel helemaal af!

> Zie hier voor het recept

Update website - Stap voor stap een bannock maken

Vandaag een bannock gemaakt en stap voor stap uitgelegd hoe je dat maakt. Lekker eenvoudig gerecht dat onlosmakelijk staat van survival en Bushcraft.

Zie hier op de website!

Dandelion Jam/Paardebloem Jam

This morning I had breakfast with toast and my own made Dandelion jam... very nice!
The jam is sweet and soft with a characteristic bitterness of the Dandelion, great on grilled toast! The jam is not only very tasty but also very healthy!

Ingredients: 400 dandelion flowers* (no stems and green parts) - 2 oranges and 2 lemons untreated - sugar (no gelling!)
*100 flowers = 90 gr to 100 gr.

Cut the oranges and lemons into thin slices.Put the fruit in 1.5 liters of cold water with the previously washed and well pressed dandelion flowers. Bring to boil and cook for 1 hour. Let rest (infuse) for 12 hours. Filter, weigh and add an equal weight of sugar. Return to cook for about 45 minutes until the consistency of liquid honey. Do not hesitate to continue cooking according to the amount of preparation. Put in jars!

Today on the menu!

Springtime is a fascinating period of the year for all nature lovers and Bushcrafters. All kind of plants are coming up and mostly of them are succulent when young.
Today I've picked a bag of Dandelions flowers and young nettle leaves. With the Dandelions I will make some very nice and sweet jam.

With the nettle I will make a pasta sauce for today. Just pick the top young leaves, wash them, bake some bacon add the nettle and some cream... hmmmmm!

Carving: stirring spoon

Today there was nothing interesting on TV so I decided to carve another spoon. This time a big stirring spoon!
It's done with also the Mora Erik Frost 106 and the Mora Erik Frost 164.

 

Carving: spoon

In Holland is the weather great at the moment and the sun is just shining in our garden.
A great moment to practice some carving. I found a nice peace of birch and after an hour an half the spoon is ready (the left one).

I've used the Mora Erik Frost 160 and the Mora Erik Frost 164 carving knives. You can buy this at my shop.