Cherokee Cubs put their cooking skills to the test on Hessle Foreshore. The older group made a frittata and sausages, the middle group pitta bread pizza, and along with the younger group toasted marshmallows to make smores. All lit and extinguised their own fires. A delightful time in the evening sunshine.
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Cooking on Fires
Cherokee Cubs cooked sausages on a stick and chocolate bananas in the embers as part of their Backwoods Cooking badge. Our Explorers also organised some team games as part of their Young Leader Award missions. Congratulations to Amelie who was Cub of the Term for Summer 2022.
Night Hike, Bivvies and Backwoods Cooking
Explorers were sent on a night hike, with a sealed packing box, and when they arrived at the overnight camp, the tent was taken off them and everything they needed for the night was in the box. Tarps, rope, tinned hot dogs and bread, no tin opener or cooking pots…. they had to work it…
Backwoods Cooking
Hessle Navajo Scouts enjoyed some backwoods cooking on the banks of the River Humber last night. After the Scouts had found enough wood and built their fire, they baked foil parcels of meat and veg in the embers. They also were successful in BBQ’ing burgers on cabbage leaves.
Challenges
During lockdowns there were just some things that were hard to do at home and on Zoom, so Cherokee Cubs have had a couple of weeks of completing missing bits of badges. We’ve sawn wood, made rope, identified garden tools, walked around the local area and drawn our own map, completed problem solving activities, compass…
BACKWOODS COOKING DAY
Cherokee Cubs had a great day at the Humberside County Backwoods Cooking event. We cooked hot dogs, omelette, cakes, pancakes and bread twists all on open fires, we lit fires without matches and learnt how to extinguish them, we practiced some first aid, made hot drinks, set the table and learnt about hygiene when cooking. …
Backwoods Cooking and Fire safety
Over the last few weeks the cubs have been working for their backwoods cooking and fire safety badges. For their backwoods cooking badge they have learnt how to prepare a fire and then light it with a flint and steel. The cubs have also learnt how to cook items on a stick as well as…