No, they're round

[Obi-Wan Cannoli]

In celebration of National Pi Day, what are your favorite recipes for pie or favorite uses of π ?


I enjoy the pepperoni pizza mountain pie:

1. Take two slices of buttered white bread and place mozzarella, marinara, and pepperoni slices in the middle

2. Place this inside a mountain pie maker and toast it to golden brown over a camp fire

3. Enjoy

 

[Nativearizonan]

We used to make a "washday pie" that was simple. You grease up an appropriate sized cake pan or casserole dish, greased, dump in a quart jar of home canned peaches and pour a cup or so of thin batter that is basically just pancake batter sweetened with some sugar or honey to which a few spices have been added (cinnamon, nutmeg, and/or ginger). Throw it in the oven at 350 until done (40 minutes more or less). Eat.

It can also be done in a dutch oven.

 

[George]

Cherry Cobbler in a Dutch Oven

1 can tart red cherries with juice (not pie cherries)
2/3 cup sugar
1 stick butter/margarine

Batter:
1 cup sugar
1 cup all purpose flour
1/2 cup milk
1 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt

Heat the cherries with 2/3 cup sugar until the sugar is well melted. Add the stick of butter and melt it. Make the batter with the remaining ingredients and pour evenly over the cherries. It will sink, but rise to the top as it bakes. Bake for about 45 minutes. Remove when the topping is golden brown and crusty. Tend it well, all that sugar will burn easily.
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Most people think pi R square. This is wrong. Pi R round. Cornbread R square.

Favorite use of n = TREKn

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[coloradoclyde]

Apple gallete

1/2 cup flour
pinch salt
1 apple ( Gala )
lemon juice
cinnamon
1/4 stick cold butter
1/8 stick melted butter
2 tablespoons sugar
Cut cold butter into small pieces, add to flour and press through a fork untill butter is thouroghly mixed mix in salt, refrigerate 5 min. add about 1 tablespoon of cold water and gently mix. refrigerate while oven preheats to 350 f
while oven preheats peel, core, and slice apple and add 1/2 tespoon lemon juice.
place dough on parchment paper and press into ball then roll out like pizza.
place thinly sliced apple in middle of dough, sprinkle with cinnamon and sugar.
Fold dough up over apples pinching and folding as you go.
place gallete on cookie sheet in oven for 35-40 minutes or until golden brown and delicious.
Melted butter goes on the apple, sugar cinnamon, lemon juice mixture.

 

[coloradoclyde]

I'm waiting For Pythagoras day... :haha:

 

[coloradoclyde]

Here's something to make you hungry.. :grin:

 

[sidelock]

Turns out real good on cold snow days in Idaho elk camp. Been there !!!!!!!

 

[crockett]

Okay- time to ask help from someone that has done it....I've thought about the pie in a Dutch oven but how can you figure the temperature, cooking time, and at higher elevations in the mountains?

 

[gearheart]

for baking, if using coals from the fire it's a manure shoot to get the temperature right. This kind of wisdom is based on experience based on failures. If using briquettes take double the diameter of the oven in briquettes to get 350 degrees. divide in half and transfer 3 from the bottom to the top. For example a 12 inch oven: 24 briquettes 15 on lid and 9 underneath = 350 degrees. Adding 2 raises the temp by 25 degrees so 16 over and 10 under = 375. Adding one, on top first, gives a 12 degree rise in temp. At high altitude things take a little longer and there are tables to explain this.

 

[crockett]

Thanks. Sort of figured it just took some experience doing it.

 

[George]

Yes, experience is the secret, especially if you are using wood, not charcoal. It's not all that tough, though. Put your pie an some kind of pie pan, metal or ceramic, set it on a trivet, metal rods, small stones, etc., to get it up off the bottom. That way your dutch oven is really a small oven, not a pan to cook in. That will make burning the bottom of the food much less likely. Heat the top in the fire a bit before putting it on, then take a peek every few minutes to see what's happening in there. If you've done much regular cooking it will quickly become easier, the skills transfer.







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[coloradoclyde]

Ok start with this...
[youtube]/-210MIz8g80[/youtube]

I've also used the +3/-3 method. http://dutchovendoctor.com/temperature_control.htm

Every oven is slightly different and has it's own quirks.....just like a home oven...but once you get use to it it's as easy as pie... :haha:

For hardwood fire coals from the fire, I use the had test same as I would for a grill.

The Hand Test

The other way to know the heat is to extend your palm over the charcoal at a safe distance. Imagine a soda can is standing on the cooking grate, right over the coals. If your palm was resting on the top of the can, it would be 5 inches from the cooking grate. That’s where you should measure the heat of charcoal. Always pull your hand away from the heat before it hurts, and be sure that nothing flammable, such as a sleeve, is dangling from your arm. If you need to pull your hand away after 2 to 4 seconds, the heat is high. If you need to pull your hand away after 5 to 7 seconds, the heat is medium. If you need to pull your hand away after 8 to 10 seconds, the heat is low.

High (450° to 550°F): 2 to 4 seconds

Medium (350° to 450°F): 5 to 7 seconds

Low (250° to 350°F): 8 to 10 seconds



You'll notice on the pie above I lumped all the coals in the center.....I did this at the end of cooking trying add some color to the center of the pie..

If your dutch oven doesn't have a flat top for coals.....make a pan out of tin foil and place it on top of the lid....it works very well.

 

[crockett]

Thanks for the help- that idea of heating the lid in the fire- I never thought about that.
I do want to use it as a oven rather than a pot. I think it would be a lot easier cleaning, etc. I was going to start with sort of a cobbler where I put filling in a pie pan and then I was going to crunch up some short bread to put on top- that way I'm more heating than baking until I get the hang of it.

 

[George]

The guy in that first video may be a good cook, but he is mathematically challenged. If you double any number and then divide by 2, you wind up back where you started. Duh.

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[Billnpatti]

The guy in that first video may be a good cook, but he is mathematically challenged. If you double any number and then divide by 2, you wind up back where you started. Duh.

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I do understand what he was doing by saying it that way. But, it might have been easier by saying "Make two piles of coals, each pile containing the same number of coals as the diameter of the Dutch oven. One pile is for the top and one pile is for the bottom of the oven. Then move three coals from the pile that is to go on the bottom and put them on the top."

 

[Woods Dweller]

Bunch of play on words here.
Pi Day
Pythagoras day
Nothing to do with PiE.
:idunno:

 

[Obi-Wan Cannoli]

March 14th is National Pi Day, but pie baking was officially added on because...well...pie is awesome. So talking about pi or pie is both appropriate. :v