Basic Fruit Cobbler Dutch Oven

To be honest, there are so many variations on what fruit to add, the combinations are endless here. Have fun and experiment.

1. Fruit (Choose your favorite):

• 2- 20oz Cans of pie filling
• 4-5 Cups Frozen/Fresh Fruit

• Peaches and/or Nectarines
• Berries- combination or single variety
• Cherries
• Pineapple (Think pineapple upside-down cake)
• Apricot
• Apples

     2.   Cake Mix- Usually Yellow or white but can use carrot or spice with apples.
     3.   1/4-1/2 C butter
     4.   1 can Lemon Lime Pop


Preparation:

1. Line dutch oven with aluminum foil.
2. Pour fruit on bottom. 
3. Combine cake mix and 1 can of pop. Pour on top of fruit.
4. Dollop butter on top (makes the top crispy)
5. Place 5-6 Coals on bottom and 12-14 coals on top. Cook for 1 Hour.

Variation:

• Instead of mixing in pop, you can substitute the 1/2 cup of butter into the mix. I like the pop/butter combo best.

Old Fashion Apple Crisp

5 Cup Apples, Peeled and Sliced (about 5-6 apples)
2/3-3/4 Cups Packed Brown Sugar
2 Tsp. Lemon Juice
1/3 Cup Butter (softened, not melted)
1/4 tsp. Salt
1 Cup Rolled Oats
1/2 Cup Flour
1 tsp. Cinnamon
1/2 tsp Nutmeg (optional)
1/2 tsp. Allspice (optional)

Apples:

1. Combine Apples, and lemon juice in bottom of greased 9/13 pan.
2.  Dust with cinnamon and 1/4 Cups brown sugar

Crisp:

1.  Combine flour, the rest of the brown sugar, spices, salt and rolled oats until well mixed. 
2. Add Butter and mix until crumbly
3. Sprinkle over apples 

Baking:

1. Bake at 350°F for 30 minutes or until apples are tender.
2. Serve with ice cream or whipped cream 

Variations:

• To make a berry crisp, use 4 cups mixed frozen berries. No lemon juice needed. Decrease cinnamon to 1/2 tsp.
• For Dutch Oven Cooking: Line dutch oven with aluminum foil. Prepare crisp in the same way. For apples, use one can of sprite instead of lemon juice so the apples don't dry out when cooking. Use 5-6 coals on bottom and 12-14 coals on top of 12" dutch oven. Bake for 1 hour or until apples are cooked. 

Great-Grandma Childs' Dutch Apple Cake/Pie

Here is a fun family recipe that my mom sent me a few months ago. This comes from an old ward cookbook my Great-Grandma Childs contributed to years ago. The recipe is well over 100 years old now. Please note that my great-great-grandmother from whom this recipe originally came from was Danish:-)

 Oh, if you really want it, you could always cook the fruit cake recipe too.

Apple Turnovers

1 Large Apple
2 Fridge Crescent Roll THings
1/2 Cup of Butter
1 Cup Sugar
Cinnamon
12 oz Can of Mt. Dew

1. Melt butter with sugar and let boil on stove fr one minute
2. peel and slice apple and foll one apple slice in a cresecent roll triangle
3. arrange in pan then pour sugar mixture on top. Top with cinnamon
4. Pour Mountain Dew Around the edge of the pan.
5. Bake at 350 for 40 minutes