Cook Egg and Bacon in an Orange

Step 1: Preparing the Orange

You need to slice off the top of the orange - same sort of height you might do a boiled egg.  Refer to the photos to see the sort of 'cap' you are try...

Step 2: Line it with bacon

I used streaky bacon, however back bacon or similar is fine.  Just wrap it round inside - or drape it in so it covers all the inside of the orange.

Step 3: Add Egg

Step 4: Fixing the Lid

I used toothpicks to secure the lids - but true backwoods style would probably use small sharpened green sticks. It's a good idea to soak the toothpi...

Step 5: Stick it on the fire

Cooking on fires isn't straightforward, you need to understand the difference between embers and flames. Embers have very little or absolutely no fla...

Step 6: Edible

The cooked egg is pretty much hard boiled and the bacon is getting a bit crispy.  A success. Shame it all tastes faintly of orange really, but edible...

Step 7: Taking it further

Other thick peeled fruit works quite well too.  We've used bananas to cook sausages.  Because we had to open the banana up to check the sausage (and f...