Instructions: At home combine all the dry ingredients in a plastic baggie. Some folks blend the oatmeal until it is the consistency of flour (I like it whole).

Put the oil in a small plastic bottle. At camp beat egg, oil, water and dry ingredients together. Let stand 10 minutes (dont skip this part).

Cook in a greased pan, until lightly browned. Serve with honey, butter, jam or syrup. These can also be cooked in a pie iron.

This is a super recipe for backpacking - its light to carry, filling and is good cold as a trail snack. You can add whatever to it - fresh berries, raisins, etc. It can be cooked in a pie iron, fry pan, vagabond stove and, with a little less water, on a stick. Ive used this recipe since the mid 1950s. The initial reaction is always the same - ugh, oatmeal pancakes.

Followed very closely by - arent there anymore?

O. Redding

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