Comments on: Dutch Oven Cooking – King Ranch Camp Bread (Pan de Campo)

By: yolanda bazan

yolanda bazan — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 01:07:20 +0000

john,please sent me your no fail pan de campo.recipe..I was born in kingsville,and shame on me dont even know the recipe.I was looking for the recipe and I got lucky when i saw you had one.Thanks again

By: Robin

Robin — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 17:22:46 +0000

John, Please post your no fail recipe for camp bread. I am cooking this for our hunters this week and don’t want to “fail”. Thanks

By: john elliott

john elliott — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 12:31:36 +0000

Micaela,

Send an e-mail to jbethree@cox.net and I will be happy to share my recipe.

JOhn

By: Micaela Cavazos

Micaela Cavazos — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 18:15:01 +0000

John, I tried the king ranch recipe for pan de campo, and as Jaime Pena says” did not work “, I also had the same problem, I added more evaporaded milk.. Would you share your no fail recipe? Thank you Micaela

By: Erasmo Herrera

Erasmo Herrera — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 19:03:48 +0000

John,
I went to a cookoff in Zapata Texas where Pan se Campo was one of the entries. Some cooks told me to use yeast when making the bread. What do you think? We are trying the King Ranch recipe this weekend. Do you have a good recipe? My wife had the bread for the first time and is now wanting to cook some.

Thanks,
Erasmo

By: john elliott

john elliott — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 13:49:39 +0000

Jaimie,

I don’t think you went wrong with this recipe. Almost all of the Pan de Campo recipes on the internet are too dry. I grew up in South Texas, have eaten camp bread on the King Ranch and other ranches, e-mail me an I will send you a no fail recipe.

John

By: jaime pena

jaime pena — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 15:56:22 +0000

This recipe using 4 cup flour and 4 cups biscuit mix with the rest of the ingredients did not work! 5 oz pet milk not enough the make a dough. I added more milk and water but the dough roll was still too dry! The finished product was very flakey and broke apart.Not sure where I went wrong with this recipe.

By: A Cowboy's Wife

A Cowboy's Wife — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 03:58:55 +0000

You don’t have to use the pan to put coals in. You can put them directly on the ground Randi but the size is around 14″ I believe. It’s just a big ol’ round cake pan.

By: Randi

Randi — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 03:37:55 +0000

Was wondering what the dimensions were for the coal containment and what it is made out of.

By: Roger Edison

Roger Edison — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 03:28:10 +0000

Hi lori, I sincerely enjoyed reading your King Ranch Pan De Campo recipe. Often known as Camp bread, or flatbread. Likely you are aware that these are the oldest of breads often cooked in a clay tandoor which was a portable cookware long before the Dutch Oven. What makes these breads popular of there times was they required little fuel to cook being completed in 15 minutes, beside being very delicious. Recipes vary across the world based on grains and taste. Additionally flatbreads do not require leavening. Accent middle eastern parts of the world called it pita, while India called it Naan, and Turkey called it Lavash. For the King Ranch, it is cooked in the Cast Iron Dutch Oven where we serve it annually during the Ranch hand Breakfast held Saturday before Thanksgiving.