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Reading Problemchild's threads about yummy dutch oven recipes made me want to share something that I have found that not everybody knows about: pie irons! http://www.romeindustries.com/pieirons.htm
They're great for cooking up a single serving of sandwiches, English muffins, or my favorite, pies! It's basically two cast iron shells that fold together. Open it up, spread butter on the insides, put in your pie crust or bread or whatever, add your ingredients, close it up and stick it in the fire. When you pull it out, your sandwich or pie is amazing gooey yumminess. I love dutch oven cooking, but pie irons are just so easy to use that I find myself leaving my dutch oven at home more often, unless I'm going camping with a larger group.
Some of my favorite dessert recipes:
There's tons of other pie iron recipes available on the Web.
The downside is you can only cook one pie or whatever at a time, but hey they're cheap and easy to transport; buy two! I highly recommend the cast iron versions; Teflon is not ideal in pie irons because you can very easily overheat it to the point where the Teflon starts to give off fumes.
They're great for cooking up a single serving of sandwiches, English muffins, or my favorite, pies! It's basically two cast iron shells that fold together. Open it up, spread butter on the insides, put in your pie crust or bread or whatever, add your ingredients, close it up and stick it in the fire. When you pull it out, your sandwich or pie is amazing gooey yumminess. I love dutch oven cooking, but pie irons are just so easy to use that I find myself leaving my dutch oven at home more often, unless I'm going camping with a larger group.
Some of my favorite dessert recipes:
- Cherry pie filling and either pie crust or white bread. Maybe throw in a marshmallow too.
- S'mores! White bread, crumbled up graham cracker, chocolate, and marshmallows.
- Brie cheese and cranberry or cranberry/orange relish inside pie crust
There's tons of other pie iron recipes available on the Web.
The downside is you can only cook one pie or whatever at a time, but hey they're cheap and easy to transport; buy two! I highly recommend the cast iron versions; Teflon is not ideal in pie irons because you can very easily overheat it to the point where the Teflon starts to give off fumes.
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