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CAMP COFFEE…. WYOMING STYLE
First, dump cold water into the pot, over the old grounds.
There is no need to rinse out the pot unless you start to get more
grounds than coffee. Throw the new
coffee on top of the water, and put the fire to ‘er.
‘Bout a quarter cup of coffee to 2 cups water will usually do it,
unless you want it strong. Ol’ Teton Tom says it should just float a spoon.
A few moments of boiling are enough, unless you’re Irish, Swedish,
Norwegian, or English, in which case you’ll probably want it to boil over a
time or two to get any extra water out. To settle the grounds, dump about a half-cup of cold water into
the pot. For a big huntin’-crew-sized
pot, settle the grounds by breaking a raw egg into it. After the egg has marinated a bit, fish it out and feed it to
your orn’riest mule. If the mule
don’t die, there’s a chance the coffee’s fit to drink. And you’ll pro’bly wanna keep the mule. Even with all this some folks still strain their coffee,
but chunky style gives you something to chew on while you’re mulling
over the important things in life. Like..sure
wish we’d a remembered the toilet paper. You have to drink camp coffee fast, to keep it from settin’ up.
Chippin’ it out with your hunting knife
can be hard on the knife. Another thing—you can’t make good camp coffee in a new pot.
You need an experienced, battered one with a colorful history.
A good pot is black on the inside, rusty on the outside, and covered with
campfire soot. There’s a real
good one hangin’ in a tree next to that cabin up outta Bellyache Flats.
Stormin’ Norman allows there’s another one rattling around in
Diamond-hitch Dennis’s huntin’ gear. NEVER
wash a good coffee pot. An
occasional rinse in Dirty Socks Spring will do. Camp coffee is best with eggs and sourdough pancakes on openin’
mornin’. Good camp coffee covers
a multitude of sins. A swaller
or two of that stuff and you’ll hardly notice the fireside dirt that
gets kicked into the sourdough batter. And,
its also one of the best ways to wash down crisp fried brookies up a Lake
Solitude. Camp coffee should always be drunk out of a tin cup.
Not only does a tin cup stand up to the rigors of camp life, but it also
helps warm your hands after saddelin’ up the critters. One last thing. One
of the best things about good camp coffee is the fellowship that goes with it.
Most folks that cater to good campfire cookin’ like this are the kind
you want to ride the trail with. A
couple frosty mornin’s at 10,000 feet sittin’ around the fire with a coffee
cup in your hand makes the twists and turns of life seem pretty small.
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