The one downside to off-grid cooking is you think you can’t have desserts.
You would be wrong, my friend!
This is a very easy dessert that can be baked in a grill or even a dutch oven in a bed of coals!
Using ingredients from a prepper pantry, this wonderful apple crisp (or whatever-fruit-you-want-to-use-crisp) will be a crowd pleaser!
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Apple Crisp with Real Whole Grains
Ingredients
- 6 apples - peeled, sliced or diced or 1 quart canned apples, drained
- 2 TB sugar
- 1 3/4 tsp cinnamon, divided
- 1 1/2 tsp lemon juice when using canned apples, I omit this because my canned apples already have lemon juice. This is just to help the apples not to brown. Completely optional. Many times I skip this step.
- 1 cup brown sugar or sucanat
- 3/4 cup oats rolled or quick oats can be used.
- 3/4 cup freshly milled soft white wheat flour mill about 1/2 cup of soft white wheat grain to equal 3/4 cup flour. Can also substitute with spelt, kamut, or hard white wheat.
- 1/2 cup cold butter, diced into tiny pieces can also use lard. Best if lard is cold. Will have a slightly different flavor than with butter.
- 1 pinch salt
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. If using a grill to bake, get that preheated to 350 degrees.
- In cast iron pan (or baking dish), lightly grease with lard or oil
- In mixing bowl, combine chopped/sliced apples, sugar, 3/4 tsp cinnamon, and lemon juice (if using). Stir to combine. If using canned apples, make sure they are drained!
- In a separate bowl, combine brown sugar, oats, flour, 1 tsp cinnamon, salt. Whisk together.
- Add diced cold butter to the flour and oats mixture and cut in butter with pastry cutter, two forks, or your hands until butter is mixed and resembles pea-sized crumbs.
- Place apples in bottom of cast iron or baking dish. Spread to make them even.
- Spread topping over apples and spread until even.
- Bake at 350 degrees F for about 40-50 minutes until golden brown and bubbly. When I baked this in a grill, it took about 1 hour and 15 minutes. Much harder to regulate temperature with a wood fire!
- Serve warm and enjoy!
What size cast iron skillet are you using? Also, could you use blueberries? And if so, how much? Thanks so much for all you do!
I think it’s a normal 10” cast iron. And same amount for blueberries as apples.