Dutch Oven Recipes For Campfire Cooking  - Page 5

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Giant Pecan Ring

Ingredients

• 2 1lb loaves frozen bread dough, or homemade bread dough

• 1/2 c butter, melted

• 1/2 c sugar

• 1/2 c packed brown sugar

• 2 tsp cinnamon

• 1/2 c chopped pecans

• 1-1/4 c sufted powdered sugar

• 1/2 tsp vanilla

• Milk (about 4 tsp)

• Cinnamon sticks (optional)

• Pecan Halves (Optional)

Lightly grease inside of dutch oven. On a lightly floured surface, flatten thawed dough slightly.
Cut each loaf into 4 pieces (total of 8). Form each piece into a rope about 18" long.

Brush each rope on all sides with melted butter. Stir together sugar, brown sugar, and cinnamon. Place mixture on sheet of foil. Roll rope in sugar mixture to coat evenly. Shape rope into a coil in the center of the dutch oven. Roll another rope in sugar. Attach securely to end of first rope and continue coil. Continue coating ropes and attaching to form a 10-11" circle.

Sprinkle any remaining sugar over coil. Sprinkle with chopped pecans. Cover and let rise in a warm place for about 30-40 min. Bake at 350 for 30 to 3 min or till done. Cover with foil last 15 minutes to prevent over browning if necessary. Cool about 15 min.

Stir together powdered sugar, vanilla, and enough milk to make a thick glaze. Spoon over top of cake. Decorate with cinnamon sticks and pecan halves, if desired. Serves 16.

Apple Crisp

Ingredients

• 5 pounds baking apples
• 2 Tbsp. flour
• 1 cup sugar
• 2 sticks margarine
• pinch of salt
• 2 cups sifted flour
• 2 Tbsp. cinnamon
• 2 cups brown sugar
• 2 Tbsp. nutmeg

Peel apples and cut in slices. Mix apples, sugar, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg and 2 tbsp. flour
in Dutch oven. Combine margarine, flour and brown sugar mashing until crumbly. Sprinkle this mixture over apple mixture. Bake 35-45 minutes with coals in Dutch oven, or bake 30-40 minutes in 350 F oven.

Dewberry Cobbler

Ingredients

Filling:

• 2 cans (approx 4 cups) frozen dewberries
• 2 packages fresh Sugar to taste (1-2cups).

You may substitute with fresh or frozen blackberries.Mix dewberries and sugar. This mixture should be enough to cover a 12-inch Dutch oven 2 inches deep. Cook this mixture until syrupy.

Crust: 

1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup Crisco
2 cups flour

Cut butter and Crisco into flour. Add ice water. Mix until crust is crumbly. You may need to add more flour. Don't roll out!  Sprinkle or crumble over dewberry and sugar mixture. Sprinkle 1/4 cup sugar over top.  Cover Dutch oven and put coals on lid. Cook 10-12 minutes or until crust is brown. Bake in 375 F oven for 20-25 minutes.  Serves 10

Dutch Oven Cobbler

Ingredients

• 6-10 refrigerated pie crusts
• 1 gallon of sliced peaches, drained - save syrup
• dried prunes, raisons or apricots (optional)
• brown sugar
• cinammon
• butter or margarine

Grease your Dutch oven and add a pie crust or two. Put in a layer of sliced peaches then sprinkle with brown sugar and cinnamon and add plenty of butter. Add another pie crust and repeat until you are out of peaches and pie crusts. You can add the dried fruit to the peaches if you like. Add the last pie crust. Takes about 3 hours and not much fire under the oven.

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