I feel most privileged and honored to have been let in on the best-kept camping secret ever by a new friend of ours, and I’m so excited to share it with you now. Allow me to introduce…hobo eclairs!
So you take a broomstick (clean and unpainted, of course) and rub the end of it generously with a stick of butter. Then take a square of Pillsbury crescent dough (2 perforated triangles together) and wrap it around the end of the broomstick, making sure that the end is sealed. Roast it slowly over the campfire until it’s puffy and golden brown. Make sure you don’t get engrossed in conversation and let it burn!
Once it’s cooked, let it cool for a minute or so, then slide the cooked dough off the stick. Squirt a healthy dose of whipped cream inside, then drizzle (on top or inside) with chocolate syrup.
Brilliant, right?
Truly brilliant!!!
I do the same thing, but after it is cooked I roll it in melted butter, then cinnamon sugar!
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Oh heavens, that sounds delightful.
Genious.
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Any idea how this stroke of brilliance could be achieved sans campfire? We don’t live in a very open fire friendly place :(
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Love it!
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Thanks everyone!
@Lauren The only other thing I can think of is to cook it over a gas stove. Also, baking them in an oven according to package directions won’t be as fun, but you might still achieve the eclair effect :) Good luck!
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I can’t wait to go camping and try this. I might just get giddy and make these out on the fire pit in the back yard.
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We used to do something similar: Canned biscuits on the end of a clean stick, then fill the insides with butter and jam or honey. My favorite camping breakfast!
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I wonder if puff pastry would work as well as Pilsbury crescent rolls? Sounds like a fun experiment!
Try the crescent roll with butter, sugar and cinnamon too! It’s awesome:)
We used to make something similiar in Campfire girls when we’d go camping, they were called Doughboys, you take biscuit dough, put that on the end of the dowel, cook over fire and fill with chocolate pudding from a can! They’re soooo good! The warm dough and cold pudding, great memories this brings back!
There’s like, no way this won’t give you cancer. Pretty much every broom stick is treated with something you don’t want heated up and to be cooking food over.
Awesome!! @Lauren, you could probably achieve this over a grill minus the wire rack. That’s what my mom, my brother and I used to do to roast marshmellows. We didn’t live in an area that allowed us to have a campfire. :)
A social worker who uses the word ‘hobo’? Nice.
My Hubby is a Conductor for Union Pacific Railroad. He rides trains all the live long day…
“Hobo” is a train term – it literally means “Home Bound” – Because there have been many down-on-their-luck people hop onto a train to travel for free in the past – This simple term became slang for “vagrant”. I never take offense to the term Hobo, It is what brings my man back to me! :)
Vagrant – one who has no established residence and wanders idly from place to place without lawful or visible means of support
We used to make these in girl scouts when i was a kid. fill them with jam and it was breakfast. fill them with vanilla or chocolate pudding and it was dessert. you can get dowels in different sizes from the hardware store if you can’t find a plain wood broom handle. you can also wrap the end in foil and coat that with butter if you have icky feelings about the wood touching your food.
This would be great for camping trips. And it is much better than roasting marshmallows on a campfire.
In Australian Girl Guides (Girl Scouts) and Scouts we make something similar called Damper Horns.
The recipe we use is 1 cup plain flour, 1 cup self raising flour, pinch salt, water to make dough.
We would normally put things like strawberry jam and cream in them, or just plain butter.
The stick we would use would be a stick we’d picked up earlier on a hike whilst gathering firewood and cleaned thoroughly.
I’ve only just come across this site by chance….Old saying : Nothing new under the sun! I was tought how to make these when in the boy scouts 50 years ago, except we didn’t have Mr.Pillsbury in the UK in those days! The Aussies Guides nicked from the Brits – it’s in ” Scouting for Boys”, written by Lord Baden Powell, the founder of the Boy Scout Movement, published in 1908…. This version is certainly tastier :-)
PS If you are worried about cancer, the original version tells you to cut a thin branch off a tree and strip off the bark before using it.
PPS Use a barbeque!
Normally, I don’t comment on blogs… but I must say… that looks excellent!
What a wonderfully awesome idea. This is something we’re going to have to do xD
We made these this weekend at camp. Used 1 inch dowels from the hardware store. Sprayed PAM on the stick. Filled them with white chocolate pudding, whipped cream and mini chocolate chips!!!!
Move over S’Mores.. there’s a new game in town.
Oh another name could be Bum Biscuits!
@Dan: If every person that did this got cancer, as your statement would lead one to believe, you’d think you’d have heard about it by now. Anyway, you’re wrong. Most manufacturers these days treat wood with non-toxic substances. Brooms are held in bare hands, sweaty hands, warm hands, and are used not just outdoors to sweep leaves and dust, but indoors in places like kitchens and children’s rooms. Do you really believe for a second that your statement is correct?
@Karen: Please stop looking for reasons to be offended. Seriously. Of all the non-PC words out there, “hobo” is hardly the worst, and in fact not even worth mentioning in this case. It’s an old name for an old type of “recipe,” nothing more, nothing less. Don’t make it out that the OP had malicious intent and a hidden agenda of defaming and gathering hatred towards homeless people. Or is “homeless” also offensive now? Should we perhaps call these things “Potentially Fattening and Non-Nutritious High Sugar Pastries for the Financially Unfortunate and Temporarily Lacking a Permanent Abode”?
As for this recipe, I’d love to try some Hobo Eclairs, and will be sure to test it out next time we have the grill fired up! Don’t worry, though, I’ll donate a few bucks to the … less fortunate, and use a non-treated stick of all natural wood. I won’t climb trees to get the wood, either, have no fear. I’ll walk to the nearest organic wood-stick shop and purchase some fitting material there.
Some people are ridiculous.
PS. The third paragraph is sarcasm except for thinking that this recipe is awesome. I figured I might have to point that out to Dan and Karen.
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We made these when I was little and we’d go camping, only we called them “Pole Pies” and filled them with canned pie filling before squirting the ends full of whipped cream! They’re amazing.
love this! will try it this weekend.
nicely done! we tried this last sunday and my kids enjoyed it. thanks.
We’ve been making these in my family for 50 years or so (usually with biscuits, not crescents). We call them “Libby Goods” after the person we learned them from years ago. Her last name was actually Goode.
Also delicious in them: Butter. Peanut Butter. Cheese. Jelly. Scrambled eggs and Sausage. Any combination of the above, or make up new stuff.
Very versatile, and delicious. Right sized stick?–Insert Hot dog into completed Libby Good. Hot dog stick? put hot dog on stick then wrap THAT with the dough, pig and blanket style. It is difficult to do, but you can even wrap a stick with bacon, cook it over the fire, then when it’s crispy, wrap that with biscuit dough, and cook it over the fire again. Fill with cheese. Alternately (and even more difficult) wrap the dough with slice of bacon on the outside and cook. Bacon wants to shrink, while dough wants to expand is why it is difficult.
We never used the broom handle, but used green limbs cut and trimmed. NEVER use Mountain laurel as Libby Goods made on this will cause diarrhea.
@Grondor, you took the words right out of my mouth. (Except perhaps a little more eloquently) =] hehe. thanks for showing the ridiculous folks out there a little perspective!
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What a fantastic idea:D
I was wondering would lining/wrapping the broomstick with parchment, then buttering it up for the dough be ok too? I am a little worried with the idea that the chemicals of the painted broomstick might leach into the food…
Those look so much like the “womp’em sticks” we have! And yes, SO good! We fill ours with plain ice cream and chocolate sauce(but the ice cream melts REALLY FAST) or a mixture of sour cream, cheese, salsa, lettuce and taco meat. YUM! The sticks we use have a slightly larger head than this calls for, but I find it works really nicely. We use the biscuits usually, but the crescent rolls could be pretty good.. I think they might be a little light for the heavier fillings though. I think they still have some on Amazon for sale but if you want to see what i’m talking about – http://www.campfireinacan.com/womp-em-stick.html for a picture
You’re hardly going to develop cancer from using even a ‘treated’ stick if you’re just an occasional camper or open-fire chef. Some chance, I suppose, if you do this using the same ‘treated’ stick for three meals a day, without cleaning it. Seems to me that the fat going into the wood is enough to coat it and prevent leaching of almost anything.
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I wanted to tell you that I found your idea several years ago and it has become a staple on our campouts. we are a group of four families who camp 4 times a year on the NO California Coast. We also use hotdogs. After we roast them they fit perfectly in the cresant rolls. We have also used pie filling or fresh strawberries. We don’t even bring s’more makings anymore. The kids don’t even ask for marshmallows anymore. Tonight we cooked them in the fireplace inside.
We have some specially made campfire roasting sticks that are perfect for this. They are called Womp ‘Em Sticks. We bought ours from the company directly, however they are now available on Amazon. Well worth the money. Also, the company was in the process of writing a cookbook but I don’t know if it was ever published. Something to look into, though.
Thx for sharing …will try this :-)
We do almost the same thing, but we put the roll around the end too and then fill them with pudding.