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[00:00:00.05] Hey, happy campers. And welcome to Taste Great Outdoors, where we make easy recipes that you can make in minutes at your campsite.
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[00:00:06.04] A camper stirs a pot of food on a two-burner camping stove. A cast iron skillet filled with blueberry cobbler with a dollop of ice cream on top sits on a table covered in a red and white checked tablecloth.
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[00:00:06.09] This is blueberry cobbler, a burst of flavor in every bite, thanks to deliciously tart blueberries topped with a crispy, sweet oat crumble.
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[00:00:14.14] Blueberries are dotted around the cooked, golden oats.
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[00:00:14.16] It gives gourmet, but it's actually super easy to make, so let's jump into it.
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[00:00:18.10] Holding the skillet with a cloth wrapped around the handle, she places the cobbler on a table.
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[00:00:18.15] So the secret to this recipe is that the prep actually starts at home.
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[00:00:21.66] She picks up a reusable bag and holds it over an empty bowl on a table in front of the camping stove with the skillet on it.
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[00:00:21.93] Before you head out on your trip, you're going to combine the oats, sugar, flour and cinnamon in a resealable bag.
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[00:00:27.96] She dumps the contents into the bowl.
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[00:00:28.02] When you're ready to start cooking, add butter to the dry ingredients and work it in with your fingertips until it's nice and crumbly.
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[00:00:34.11] She smushes apart butter with her fingers directly into the mixture in the bowl.
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[00:00:34.26] It should look a little something like this.
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[00:00:36.11] The butter sits in small globs on top of the oats, sugar, flour, and cinnamon.
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[00:00:36.18] Next, layer your blueberries on the bottom of the skillet and sprinkle that sweet oat crumble over the top.
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[00:00:41.99] She fills the bottom of the skillet with blueberries and then sprinkles the top of them with the dry mixture and butter.
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[00:00:42.03] Then, you're going to tent some foil on the skillet to create a kind of makeshift oven and bake for about 20 minutes over medium heat.
[00:00:49.04] While
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[00:00:49.17] She molds a sheet of tin foil over the top of the skillet and then turns the burner on.
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[00:00:52.94] She loads the containers into another bowl as the skillet cooks and sets it off to the side. She sets out a hot pad with "Maine" stitched on it.
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[00:00:52.95] And if there are any other camp recipes you'd like to see, drop us a comment below.
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[00:00:56.57] She peels back the tin foil.
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[00:00:56.82] And here it is, blueberry cobbler.
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[00:00:58.76] She lifts the skillet off of the stove using a towel and sets it on the hot pad.
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[00:00:58.98] It tastes straight from the heart of Maine blueberry country.
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[00:01:01.66] The skillet is filled with crispy oats and blueberries.
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[00:01:01.81] If you can manage it out in the field, a scoop of vanilla ice cream is just divine here. But you really can't go wrong with a big dollop of whipped cream either.
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[00:01:08.96] The center third of the cobbler is covered in a heaping dollop of ice cream.
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[00:01:09.22] For the full blueberry cobbler recipe, check out the video description. And if you enjoyed this video and want to see more like it, don't forget to and subscribe. And let us know what camp meals you love to cook in the comment section below.
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[00:01:20.43] The blueberry cobbler in the skillet.
Welcome to Tastes Great Outdoors – our cooking series where we share the best camping recipes, featuring delicious gourmet flavors with simple, accessible ingredients and easy cleanup. Inspired by the go-to recipes of Seth R., an experienced guide and trip leader with L.L.Bean Outdoor Discovery Programs , these are the dishes he loves to whip up when he’s responsible for keeping people fed and happy out in the wilderness.
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BLUEBERRY COBBLER
Cook Time Approx. 20 Min | Serves 4
There’s nothing sweeter than ending a meal with Seth’s blueberry cobbler recipe. This crowd-favorite unleashes a burst of flavor in every bite thanks to pleasantly tart blueberries topped with a crisp, subtly sweet oat crumble. It’s one of those camping recipes that gives gourmet, but is actually super easy to make – especially since the prep for its wonderful crumble topping starts at home. Let’s cook!
INGREDIENTS
½ cup old-fashioned oats
6 Tbsp. flour
3 Tbsp. packed brown sugar
¼ cup granulated sugar
¼ tsp. cinnamon
3 Tbsp. butter
1-½ cups blueberries
INSTRUCTIONS
1. At home, combine oats, brown sugar, granulated sugar, flour, and cinnamon in a resealable bag.
2. When you’re ready to start cooking, add butter to dry ingredients and work it in with your fingers until it forms a crumble.
3. In a cast-iron skillet, add blueberries over medium heat.
4. Sprinkle oat crumble over the top of the blueberries.
5. Tent foil on skillet and “bake” for about 20 minutes.
6. Serve hot with vanilla ice cream or whipped cream.
TIPS & TRICKS - From our camp cooking expert

MIX DRY INGREDIENTS BEFORE YOU LEAVE
Instead of making a mess trying to measure and mix dry ingredients at the campsite, simply do it at home and have it ready to go in a resealable bag.
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