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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

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

Collecting dry wood and making fire with a match

Collecting dry wood

Foraging dry wood during my childhood holidays in the wonderful National Park of the Abbruzzi in Italy,  was the coolest thing to do. I went hours walking as a 14th year old kid and made a special wooden sled for carrying all the wood. We had always enough wood for a great evening fire.
Looking for fire wood is fun and I still do it with lots of pleasure and in this video I will try to explain that if you take care about a few things you will be more successful by making fire.

Wood lying on the ground in the woods or forests has always a little moisture in it and can be hard to burn or much more difficult for starting a fire with it. Look always for dead wood that is still attached to the tree. If it makes a hard, "dry" sound while breaking and it breaks right off, then you can be sure that's dry.

Making fire with a match (your last one?)

I'll find it very risky and stressful when I have to light a fire with a match! In all the years I've found out that it's not easy at all to light a fire with a match, especially if it is your last one. Wind is a sensitive factor in this scenario and you have to be very careful when lightning a match in windy circumstances.
I prefer my Firesteel above a match that's no doubt and I think the most of survivalists or Bushcrafters.

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!

Workshop Vuur maken

Samen met voedsel en water zoeken en een schuilplaats bouwen is vuurmaken van essentieel belang tijdens een overlevingssituatie. Het zorgt voor meerdere dingen:

- voedsel bereiden
- warmte creëren
- bescherming bieden
- water koken
- psychologisch impuls (zeker niet te onderschatten en misschien de belangrijkste)

Periode: 10 september 2011
Locatie: Lage Vuursche
Duur: 4 uur
Maximaal aantal personen: 12
€ 39,- per persoon*

Tijdens deze workshop gaat de instructeur aan de hand van verschillende methodes uitleggen hoe je vuur kunt maken. Na een korte theoretische uitleg over de Vuurdriehoek en de materialen is het tijd om aan de slag te gaan.

Op een rijtje wordt het volgende behandeld:

- uitleg Vuurdriehoek
- uitleg materialen
- uitleg methodes
- uitleg en voorbereiding brandbaar materiaal (tondel, vervolghout, brandhout)
- vuur maken (firesteel, vuurslag, handboog)
- verkoold katoen maken

We sluiten de workshop af met een traditionele warme maaltijd van gepofte aardappelen en warme banaan met chocolade klaargemaakt op de Finse grill.

Deze workshop kan ook op één door u aangewezen locatie plaatsvinden. Wij nemen een grote Finse vuurbak mee zodat het vuur van de grond af wordt gemaakt. Wel moet er toestemming zijn van de eigenaar van de locatie van het terrein.

Boek hier

Added Firesteels in the Shop

I've added a great product in my shop: the Firesteels of Light My Fire! I'm very proud about this product because it works very reliable and is one of my best survivals friends!

 

Payable and very usefull! See here!

New videos added

New videos added on my website (www.siegurd.nl):
- making fire with firesteel
- different kind of tinder
- making charred cotton (char cloth)