Cave Cooking Vol. 1-5

Karen Hood "Cave Cooking Videos"
Produced by Ron & Karen Hood

Cave Cooking I: In The Woods
Karen shows you how to clean and cook fish, squirrel, marmot, maggot and some select wild edible plants. She teaches you how to make wilderness bread, the amazing stone oven, the hobo stove and hobo oven. You'll see the dough rising tent and how to get yeast from your environment. This is the perfect complement to the Woodsmaster Volume 5 where we catch the food that Karen is cooking in this video! (60 minutes.)

Cave Cooking II: Solar Ovens and Dutch Ovens
In this second volume of the Cave Cooking series, Karen Hood teaches you important cooking methods for home and camp. You'll learn about the "Dutch" oven, the types, the uses, how to how to "season" it for use and how to care for it . You'll also learn some great recipes! You'll drool over the Pot Roast steaming with browned potatoes and thick gravy, you'll groan when you see how easy it is to cook a great breakfast with a Dutch, your arteries will thicken when you see her make DONUTS and then you'll moan when she serves up her famous rat stew... uhhh errr? Well, why not?
Ever heard about SOLAR cooking? You'll see the three basic types of solar cookers and how to make and use them. Solar Cookers are great non polluting cookers that are efficient and entertaining to use. Not only that but they are a real eye-opener. These things are used to cook the daily meals all around the globe. (73 minutes.)

Cave Cooking III: Fat, Frocks, and Food
In this volume of Cave Cooking, Karen Hood flies you into Idaho's outback to show you some of the coolest chow, cooking tricks and gear you've seen yet. Before she takes off for the outback, you settle down to learn how to cut and assemble a buckskin rifleman's frock, you make tallow from waste fat, real pemmican with dried beef, tallow candles and other cool things. Back in Idaho's "River of no return wilderness" Karen will teach you how to put your wilderness cooking skills together. You'll learn how to combine pemmican, bannock (Instructions included) and wild thistle to make a delicious and nutritious meal. You'll also learn how to make wilderness pizza, stick bread and some special tricks about creating cooking gear from trash and more! (70 minutes.)

Cave Cooking IV: "Messin' with Meat"
Join Karen Hood in another volume of Cave Cooking as she shows you how to mess with your meat! She'll show you the basics of smoking, curing, sausage-making, meat preservation and much more. Learn to make home-made Italian sausage, how to make oven jerky from flank steak and how to make jerky from ground meat that doesn't need refrigeration after you prepare it. Follow Karen as she shows the complete process of making home made Corned Beef and Pastrami.
Ever heard of "Plank Cooking"? Karen shows and explains this whole process in easy to follow steps. Learn all about wood chips and how to use your propane BBQ as a smoker. Ever made your own Smoked Salmon? Well after watching this video you'll be able to make it any time you want and save money doing it. Get your bib ready as you'll be drooling and wishing you had smell-a-vision while watching this video! (65 minutes. )

Cave Cooking V: Buffalo Butchers: Primitive Cooking
Karen Hood takes you to Salmon, Idaho to meet with professional Abo cooker Denyce Bigley of Salmon Outdoor School in this companion to Ron Hood's Volume 16 - Buffalo Butchers: Meat and Material from Large Game. In Karen's video you will follow Denyce through the steps the American Indians would have taken to prepare and use an entire buffalo for food. Learn all the steps to make a Native American meat preservation rack and how to smoke meat using it. Learn how to use the Buffalo's stomach as a cooking vessel the ancient way. Learn how to cook Buffalo Stew using hot rocks, how to cook fish using bark and clay, how to utilize the intestines for traditional Buffalo Sausage. Learn about some wild edibles the Native Americans would have used in cooking. See how to use those wild edibles to make a delicious and nutritious hot tea. (1 hour, 15 min.)

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