Need Help with Biscuits

[Claudia]

I make real simple (and pretty good) biscuits using self-rising flower, Crisco from a can, and some milk. I can do that just fine, providing I have an oven. The question is, how can one cook biscuits without an oven? We have a Coleman two burner propane cookstove, we have a large gas grill. I have a set of cast iron cookware which is a 3 qt. dutch oven and a 10 inch frying pan (the fry pan sits on top of the dutch oven for a cover for it). Anyway I can get decent biscuits with this set up, or is there some really important thing I need to know? Please?

 

[Hotshot]

When we were without an oven, we would put the pressure canner on the burner of our Coleman campstove, put a pie pan in upside down, and put on the lid loosely and light the burner. We would let it warm while putting the biscuits in another pie pan. Then we would lift the lid, put in the pan of biscuits, and put the lid on as fast as we could. It would take about the same amount of time as a regular oven (depending how high you had the burner.)

 

[momof23goats]

set you pan of bisquets down in your dutch oven, and put on lid, I would set the bisquet pan on a brick or something insde the dutch oven, cover,, and bake ove med. heat. it will bake inside the dutch oven, just like your oven at home. you can bake a pie, a cake, anything you want, or roast a roast, yummy, sounds good eating to me. you can also do the same thing over a wood fire, or in a hole under one. just wrap the whole shbang, in foil, and bury. It is fun to think of all the things you can cook.

 

[Yavanna]

You can cook them over an open flame on a stick like marshmallows but it takes forever and they always end up gooy in the middle Still, its great for camping. I'd try the dutch oven method.

 

[rafter]

Coleman makes an oven that sets on top of the stove. It folds up for storage and has a temp gauge on it. Wal-mart has them and I think they are in the neighborhood of $20.

I got one for y2k, but have never tried it.