Camp Cook badge
Scout proficiency badge

Camp Cook

Run a patrol camp kitchen: build it, plan and cost the menus, and cook Maldivian dishes from kulhi riha to kandhi over an open fire.

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  • Syllabus page 10

What you need to do

Part 1

  1. Make a properly equipped camp kitchen for a Patrol, with open fire and a camp oven, and cook thereon three balanced meals (which may include breakfast).
  2. Know how to store provisions in a hygienic manner and prove to the examiner that he is capable of cooking for a patrol camp for one day.
  3. Draw up menus for a patrol camp with quantities and prices for two nights, three days.

  4. Cook the following dishes:

    1. Kulhi Riha
    2. Kan'du Kukulhu
    3. Bodibai
    4. Mugu Riha
    5. Prepare Roshi for a Patrol of 7 Scouts for breakfast
    6. Make Kashikelu Fani
    7. Cook Soojee
    8. Boil rice for a patrol
    9. Know how to lay a table for the patrol in camp and improvise this table in accordance with Camping Standards.

Part 2

  1. Pass or have passed the Cook badge.
  2. Know how to buy food and draw up prices and dietetically sound menus to include quantities required for a camp of a week's duration for at least two patrols of five Scouts each. The examiner will lay down a limit for the cost of catering.
  3. Know how to prepare a hot meal (two courses) and a hot drink, without utensils except a billy can.
  4. Prepare 5 kinds of short eats including two sweet ones.
  5. Prepare Kandhi.
  6. Cook Kashikelu Baipen.
  7. Be able to prepare an Eastern or Western dish for two persons.