BPJ,
Talking of home-made alcohol stoves. I found a few years ago I could quickly drill the outgas holes in the top of the stove by chucking an ordinary straight pin in an electric drill.
Re: cook kits. I have used an aluminum pot-pie pan to cook small muffins in the smaller of two cooking pans, suspending the pie pan above the inner surface of the cook pan with a small spiral of aluminum foil.
A hiker named "Risk" did a nice write-up of trail baking on his website. www.imrisk.com