Discussion started on another prepper site in regard to recipes and other uses for the venerable "pie irons" >>> hard for me to believe - but they go back with me 55-60 years >> my family got a pair when they first came on the market - back then really only for baking a fruit pie on the campfire - small diameter about 5" or so - dished in the center to hold the pie filling .... now - they come in a number of configurations and the original "pie irons" are antiques rare to find even at garage sales - retail new they are sandwich sized and larger - some are short handled for BBQ grills on the patio ..... The cast-iron pies cookbook : 101 delicious pie recipes for your cast-iron cookware : DeVito, Dominique, author : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Fire pit cooking : Bante, Vanessa, author : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Pudgie revolution! : pie-iron cookin' for food-lovin' campers : Pierce, Jared : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Never had them, wouldn't have ever had a need for them either! We always had at least two stacks of Dutch Ovens running 24/7 in Deer/Elk or Fishing camp, that was usually 12+ stoves runnin, PLUS the big canvas tent had a wood stove with two burners and two side tank water heaters, so we cooked everything we needed almost entirely in those dutch ovens! Gramma and a couple aunts had specific desert ovens, almost always a Marion Berry pie or cobbler, and there was also breakfast dutch babies, or German Pancakes, both with fresh berry preserves or apple butter, or traditional lemon and powdered sugar! We ate like kings too be sure, about the only thing we cooked over an open fire was meat, lots of steaks or roasts, or fresh caught Salmon or Steel Head, but that's pretty much it!
Yeah, I never heard of them before this. We have a Dutch Oven but never heard of Pie Irons. Learn something new every day. Thanks!
when you group camp and have like 20 adults - can't have toooo many campfire kid cooks and pie irons >>> they go along with roasted marshmallows & smores and a coffee pot sitting on the side .....
I saw two of them just this weekend. Just cooking for me in the field they might work for biscuits. I bet you could mash one Grands Biscuit in there and it'd come out nice. I use my Super-Maid cast aluminum fish poacher to make delicious Grands biscuits on the fire but I usually fill it up and make ten of them and I can't ever eat that many.
