[That's pretty metal, Gale. Lee has to pause and think before he responds.]
Do not push yourselves to try anything too elaborate at first, then. Cooking skills build up from the basics. If you happen to stop in a town long enough, try to see if there is a way to take a class or two, and to get a place with a stove and oven could help! Cooking over a fire is more difficult than cooking on a range so understand that while on the move you are basically making things even harder on yourself from the get-go. Not much to do about it, so just take your victories where you can.
I will make sure to write out that list for you as soon as I can!
As for preserving, at this time your best option is smoking your meat, curing it, or dehydrating it. Smoking your meat usually requires a two-chambered instrument where you can trap the smoke in with the meat and use that to slow-cook it. The process takes some hours. Curing meat means placing it in a salt bath completely covered. This method does help keep the meat fresh and usable, but you must leave it in the bath for a long, long time, sometimes several months and that is a little out of your current needs range.
I think dehydrating it would be best for you. Just cut your meat into strips, brine it, then lay it across a rack over your fire. You do not want the flame touching your meat and burning it! In a sense, you are smoking your meat, but you leave it until it is very, very dry. This will keep your meat much longer, though jerky is quite tough to eat and will often not taste as good as you might wish. Still, it is generally a good ration to have in storage.
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Do not push yourselves to try anything too elaborate at first, then. Cooking skills build up from the basics. If you happen to stop in a town long enough, try to see if there is a way to take a class or two, and to get a place with a stove and oven could help! Cooking over a fire is more difficult than cooking on a range so understand that while on the move you are basically making things even harder on yourself from the get-go. Not much to do about it, so just take your victories where you can.
I will make sure to write out that list for you as soon as I can!
As for preserving, at this time your best option is smoking your meat, curing it, or dehydrating it. Smoking your meat usually requires a two-chambered instrument where you can trap the smoke in with the meat and use that to slow-cook it. The process takes some hours. Curing meat means placing it in a salt bath completely covered. This method does help keep the meat fresh and usable, but you must leave it in the bath for a long, long time, sometimes several months and that is a little out of your current needs range.
I think dehydrating it would be best for you. Just cut your meat into strips, brine it, then lay it across a rack over your fire. You do not want the flame touching your meat and burning it! In a sense, you are smoking your meat, but you leave it until it is very, very dry. This will keep your meat much longer, though jerky is quite tough to eat and will often not taste as good as you might wish. Still, it is generally a good ration to have in storage.