The Green Goblin Blog

These recipes, copied from the museum's Antarctic exhibition, help show how simple cooking can be but yet subtly different when you are stuck at the South pole for months on end.

Niçoise salad

• Add water to dried peas and leave all day
• Stir into a tin of sardines in tomato sauce

Sandwich

• get two brown biscuits
• Smear butter on biscuits
• Cut a large slice of processed cheese
• Find two chunks of milk chocolate
• Layer biscuit, cheese, chocolate and biscuit
• Open wide...

Flapjacks

• Melt half a tin of butter in a pan
• Melt snow and dissolve 10 sugar cubes
• Mix the butter, sugar and tin of porridge oats
• Add one bag of mixed fruit
• Stir
• Pour mixture into the pan lid and leave outside to cool

Rice pudding

• Melt snow in a pan
• Add rice from two boil-in-the-bags
• Add 10 sugar cubes and six large spoons of milk powder
• Pick out the raisins from muesli and add to mix
• Simmer until ready