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Sandwich pie irons, pudgy pies, and more cooker

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In its most basic function, a pie iron is a way to cook grilled cheese sandwiches and fruit pies over a campfire.

Aluma Fruit Pie:
Use any canned pie filling; apple, cherry, and peach are delicious. Place filling between your choice of bread as per our basic direction. Grill until golden brown. Sprinkle with sugar and serve.

Cornbread:
Prepare cornbread mix according to direction on package. Into a well greased cooker, fill cavity about one third with mix. Close, latch handles and bake over very low heat until done.

Rocky Road Treat:
Spread peanut butter on 2 slices of bread. Add one large marshmallow and one chocolate bar square between buttered bread slices/ Toast in cooker until bread is golden brown.

Fried Potatoes:
Place sliced potatoes in cooker, add butter, salt and pepper (to taste) and close. Grill on both sides over low heat.

Tuna Melts:
Mix canned tuna fish, chopped pickle and mayonnaise. Place on slice of bread, buttered side down, and add slice of Havarti cheese and a slice of tomato. Cover with remaining side of buttered bread and grill until hot and toasty.

Beef Pie:
Place one piece of pie dough loosely in cooker cavity, buttered side down. Add cubed, cooked beef, cooked potato slices, onions and pepper. Cover with remaining piece of pie crust, buttered side up. Close grill and latch handles. Bake for approximately 5 minutes.

Pizza Pie:
Place slice of pizza crust in cooker cavity, add tomato puree, green peppers, slivered garlic, oregano, mozzarella cheese and top with pepperoni. Cover with second slice of pizza crust. Grill 3 or 4 minutes on each side or until desired doneness is reached. English muffins or sliced bread or pita can be used in place of pizza crust.

Garlic Buns:
Spread inside of burger buns with butter and sprinkle with garlic salt and paprika. Turn each bun inside out and place into cooker cavity. Grill until golden brown.

Hot Ham and Cheese:
Place slice of bread, buttered side down, into cooker. Place slice of ham and slice of cheese on bread. Add Dijon mustard and cover with remaining slice of bread, buttered side up. Close cooker, latch handles and grill to golden brown.

Sloppy Joes:
Use canned, pre-cooked sloppy joe mix or make your own mix with hamburger, barbecue sauce and onion. (Meat must be precooked.) Place mix between buttered bread and cook over low heat until hot and toasty.

Bacon and Tomato Special:
Fill whole wheat bread with sliced tomatoes, crisp bacon, lettuce and mayonnaise. Toast sandwich for 3 to 4 minutes in pie iron.

Eggs:
Open cooker and use as two skillets, place one egg in each side of cooker. Use cooker in closed position for scrambled eggs; add onion, cheese, pepper, and mushrooms for omelettes.

French Toast:
Dip 2 bread slices into egg batter, place both slices into cooker, placing strawberry jam between bread slices. Toast until browned.

Grilled Onions:
Place thinly sliced sweet Spanish onions (or Vidalia onions) into cooker cavity. Add a little celery, salt, parsley and a splash of beer. Close cooker and grill until onions are soft.

Pie Irons are a wonderful and versatile way to cook in camp. What you can cook in these is only limited by your imagination and creativity. Children love cooking their individual serving by themselves. The following offers some suggestions on how to put your pie iron to use on your next campfire, and don't forget they work great in fire places, on wood stoves, on grills, and even on your kitchen range.

Makes reuben sandwiches, pizza pies, grilled cheese, calzones, scrambled eggs, chocolate croissants.

Cooks fruit pies, hot desserts, pudgy pies, hot ham and cheese, jelly pies, tuna melts.

Fries potatoes and onions, eggs, hamburgers, omelets, meat loaf, pork chops, hot dogs, and bratwurst.

Grills french toast, sausages, steak, sloppy joes, rocky road treats.

Bakes rolls, pies, cornbread, biscuits, empanadas, seafood and fish.

Toasts breads, s'mores, tortillas, camp treats, bagels and much more!

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Pizza Pockets

Sliced bread
Mozzarella cheese
Pizza sauce
Pepperoni or your favorite toppings

Directions:
Bring out the camp pie iron. Use two slices of bread for each "pie". Butter one side of each slice.
The butter side will face out! Top the first slice with pizza sauce. Add Mozzarella cheese and toppings.
Place the other side of bread on, butter side up! Place in pie iron and onto coals of fire. Cook until
bread is toasted.

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Apple Strudel

1 Can Pie Apples
Cinnamon & Sugar (to taste)
Raisins (if desired)
2 Sheets Puff Pastry
Powdered Sugar For Dusting
Cooking Spray

Directions:
Mix the apples, sugar, raisins and cinnamon.

Heat pie iron, spray lightly with cooking spray. Cut each sheet of puff pastry into four even squares, place on the bottom of pie iron, spoon in mixture. Cover with another sheet of puff pastry and cook until pastry is golden brown and puffy.

Remove from pie iron, sift powdered sugar over top.

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Apple or Cherry Turnovers

Bread
Can of Favorite Pie Filling

Directions:
Butter a slice of bread and lay it butter side down on the iron. Open the pie filling and spoon some on the bread (not so much that it squirts out though!) Place another slice of bread on top, butter side up and close the pie iron. Place in coals of fire for a few minutes on each side, checking to make sure it doesn't burn. Whalah! You have your hot fresh turnovers.

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Biscuits

1 Small Can Pillsbury Buttermilk Biscuits (or like brand)
2 Tbsp. Melted Butter
Sugar / Cinnamon Mixture (for cinnamon biscuits)
1 Tsp. Garlic (for garlic biscuits)
Pam®

Directions:
Spray Pam on pie iron. Open biscuits and separate. Cut biscuits in half and shape into balls.

For Plain: Put a biscuit ball (buttered or unbuttered) in pie iron until golden brown.

For Cinnamon: Put a biscuit ball in melted butter and roll in sugar / cinnamon mixture and cook until golden brown.

For Garlic: Put a biscuit ball in melted butter and garlic salt mixture and cook until golden brown.