District Cooking Competition

8th October 2018 by Claire Shadbolt

Scafell Troop cook up a storm!

Congratulations to the two teams who entered the District Cooking Competition on Saturday 6 October.

Team North America cooked a vegetable chowder, shredded salmon in a tomato sauce on a bed of rice, and a lime cheesecake.

They narrowing missed nailing the chowder.  Just needed to check the seasoning.  Unfortunately the cheesecake didn’t set in time.  But the judges praised the flavour.

Team Asia cooked Thai sweet potato soup, Stir fry with tofu and egg noodles, and crepes with exotic fruits.

Each of the dishes were of very good standard.

Team North America came fourth and Team Asia came second.  Plus Team Asia were so close to winning best fancy dress as well.  Congratulations to 6th Croydon with their Mexican team who won the competition.

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Scafell troop expedition April 2017

5th April 2017 by Claire Shadbolt

Saturday 1 April five intrepid scouts met to start their expedition.  Not the dizzy heights of Everest nor the distances of the Amazon, but a hike from Croydon to Biggin Hill and return.

On the way the scouts stopped off at Beaver Water World.  The aim was to see if they could spot any similar animals in the wild the next day.  I am pleased to say they did not spot any lemurs or crocodilians wandering around the outskirts of Addington.  I am hoping their reports will contain some animals spotted.

 

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Scafell troop at County Night Hike 2017

22nd March 2017 by Claire Shadbolt

Well it was not what we were expecting.

Well done to the seven scouts who attended the County Night Hike.  They came joint fifth.  It was a popular position.  There were approximately thirty teams that came joint fifth!

There was an issue with the route.  Only four teams found checkpoint four and those four all completed the course.  The rest of the teams, including ours, could not find that mystical checkpoint.  Something went wrong and county are looking into it to ensure it doesn’t happen again.  Our scouts worked together and showed good decision making by making the decision to navigate back to checkpoint three, with about 70 scouts following them.  Then in true scouting spirit, leaders from three  groups jumped into minibuses and got them all back to camp.

I am glad to say that all the scouts still enjoyed themselves.  They were out about five hours and came back to camp at 2:00 and still cooked breakfast at 7:30 in the morning.

Special thanks to Ben, Bobby and Anneka for supporting the camp.

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Scouts at county cooking competition 2017

11th February 2017 by Claire Shadbolt

Congratulations to the two teams from 28th Croydon who entered the county cooking competition.

Scafell came joint third with 53 points.  Snowdon came joint 11th with 50 points.

Full results

Also an apology.  I sneaked in to take some photos.  At that time Snowdon were being judged, so I couldn’t approached them.  By the time I came back, all the food had gone!

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Scafell troop enjoying getting messy

18th October 2016 by Claire Shadbolt

Scafell troop voted for messy games.  They got messy!

We started off with a simple relay race.  The first hurdle was apple bobbing.  The second was sweets in flour.  The third was worm pie (sweets in cream).  The last hurdle was to eat a doughnut.  All of this was without hands.  Yes they did get mucky!

The second was to paint a picture – but no brushes were provided.  This was to be done using fingers.  The theme was Great British Bake Off.

Then we had cakeate – to decorate a scout’s face as though it was a cake.  Four scouts were covered in buttercream and had various extra bits such as chocolate sauce, shimmer spray, icing gel and daisies.

With the last game we had the aim of getting the most marsh mellows to stick to the decorated scout.  I am not sure who won, but the floor lost.  It was more of a food fight than a competition.

 

Watch the video.

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Scafell scouts at county night hike

14th March 2016 by Claire Shadbolt

Well done to seven scouts who took part in the GLSW county night hike on 12-13 March 2016.  They completed eight miles during the night arriving back at the camp site at 1:30am.

44 teams and 230 young people took part from across the county.  Many of them were from Croydon.

It was very muddy underfoot, the only problem this caused was muddy scouts.  That didn’t worry them one bit.  It was also very cold, with a heavy frost.  Again that didn’t seem to worry them as they were well prepared with clothes, sleeping bags and plentiful supply of sweets.

We used our new hiking tents and new compasses bought with money donated from Jack Petchey Foundation.  The scouts were very comfortable in the tents and the compasses worked a treat.  Thank you Jack Petchey Foundation.

Jack Petchey Foundation

Scouts at county cooking competition

19th February 2016 by Claire Shadbolt

Six intrepid scouts traipsed to Hook to represent 28th Croydon scouts in Greater London South West county cooking competition.

The theme was  A Meal Fit for Today and our scouts choose menus based on that.

Team A choose a start of mozzarella cheese and tomato which was beautifully presented.  Followed by chicken casserole which was a challenge being prepared in a small space and on a gas burner.  And for dessert they made Eton Mess.

Team B chose mackerel, halloumi and salad for a starter.  It was a shame that the one piece that the judges tried had a bone in it even though the fish had bought deboned.  Their main course was breaded chicken and salad in wraps.  Finally for dessert they did home-made icecream.  It must be the only recipe that calls for duct tape and woolly gloves.

The competition was fierce and there were lots of teams.  Team A came joint fifth and Team B came 18.  Well done both teams.

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County Cooking Competition 2016 results