Another How to bake without an oven

[fantym1]

Maybe you can't Dutch oven for what ever reason but still want to bake

Find a pressure cooker, remove the gasket and weight (jiggler)
Fill bottom with 1 1/2 inches of sand (or salt)
Place that tray that comes with it on the sand
Heat on high for a bit and CAREFULLY place pan of food in and put the lid on like normal.
Reduce heat to low and bake for about 40-60 minutes or however long, check after 40 minutes for doneness.

 

[fantym1]

I found an older pressure cooker, no gasket or jiggler, for 50¢. My 2 itty bitty brain cells cha-chinged.
Baking without a solar oven, or if it too cloudy, or burn bans, I can still have my cornbread!
Worked today for Gypsy & I

 

[fantym1]

Vanilla Cake

All purpose flour - 1 1/2 cup
Thick yogurt (not plain) - 1 cup
Sugar - 3/4 cup  (1 cup if using cocoa powder)
Baking Powder - 1 tsp
Baking soda - 1/2 tsp
Cooking Oil - 1/2 cup (any flavorless oil)
Vanilla extract -1 1/2 tsp

Seive flour 3 times and set aside.
Pre heat the "oven" for 10 minutes.
Grease and flour the baking pan and set it aside.
Mix sugar with yogurt until sugar dissolves.
Now add baking powder and baking soda to the above and mix well. Leave it for 5 minutes. It will bubble. Add oil, vanilla extract and mix well.
Then add flour little by little and combine well with the wet ingredients. Mix well until creamy.
Pour the mixture in the greased baking pan and bake in the preheated oven 30 - 40 (or more) minutes, (on low heat) until a toothprick inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean.
Wait for the cake to cool completely before removing it from the pan, then cut it and maybe ice it.

Butter Icing 

Butter - 1/2 cup
Powdered sugar - 2 cups
Vanilla extract -1 tsp
Any food color (or 2, or not)

Sieve powdered sugar.
In a bowl, cream together butter and vanilla extract. Then add sugar, little at a time and beat well. Chill it in the refrigerator for 15 - 20 minutes.
Cut the top and the sides of the cake evenly.
Spread the butter icing on the top of the cake evenly with a spatula and pipe a design!
To get the desired spreading consistency, add little milk if needed.

Or ice with Hershey syrup & maybe add 1 1/2 +/- TBL cocoa powder to cake (flour)(but then it chocolate cake)
& YES I just had to do a cake!

 

[B and C]

Vanilla Cake


bake in the preheated oven 30 - 40 (or more) minutes, (on low heat)

What is the "preheated oven" you are using?  Or is this just a recipe?

 

[B and C]

I can still have my cornbread!

What kind of pan are you using to put cornbread in and how do you get it in (and out of) the "oven" without spilling?  I am trying to figure out the technique.  Pressure cooker bottom with sand preheated, drop cornbread pan in without the cornbread, pour in cornbread, cover and take it out how without burning yourself or getting sand in the cornbread?  Maybe could bake a pie using this technique too

I don't have a big pressure cooker (no room for one).  My cornbread/pie pan is almost the same diameter as the pressure cooker.

 

[fantym1]

B and CWhat is the "preheated oven" you are using?  Or is this just a recipe?

It's the pressure cooker in  OP.
I made a sling outa string to lower the pan (I used to do macrame) & the pan I use is a cake pan that just fits in the cooker, maybe 1/2" clearance all around.

 

[Kingdomdweller]

https://www.amazon.com/Coleman-2000...64&sr=8-1&keywords=coleman+portable+camp+oven

These ovens work great and fold up and take up not much space

 

[fantym1]

Come to think, those little pans that come in a scout mess kit would work for small pressure cooker & they have bail wire to lower/raise the pan. Halve the recipe and it'd probly work just fine

 

[fantym1]

Kingdomdwell

I've never been able to get that to work good, darn near  melted the tube on my stove (2 burner coleman )

 

[fantym1]

Or another thought - grease/flour paper cups for muffins (I only have 2 itty bitty brain cells & they both poor & old, er frugal & well used)

 

[highdesertranger]

they are using the pressure cooker like a dutch oven. with a dutch oven though you can heat from the top for more even baking. a lot of people cook corn bread on a stove top, no oven needed.

those Coleman folding ovens work ok, IF there is no wind. also it's a little tricky keeping a constant temp. I gave mine away when I started using a dutch oven. highdesertranger

 

[rm.w/aview]

The Dutch Oven is made of the material & heft to create this all around & even heating to be used as an... oven There really is no replacing cast iron cookware.

 

[fantym1]

Perhaps I should restate the 1st sentence of the original post:
No dutch oven (for whatever reason) - here is another way to bake
I just finished off a pan of sweet potato biscuits, baked in afore-mentioned oven, & they were delicious
Have a blessed day

 

[fantym1]

I KNEW there had to be a way!

Over @ instructables .com is an instruction for how to steam "bake" bread in a pressure cooker

http://www.instructables.com/id/Easy-Bread-Anywhere:-"Baking"-bread-in-a-pressure-/

Or Google it, but it does require a larger pressure cooker (appears to be an 8qt)

Enjoy y'all!

 

[SoulRaven]

Sally: "And I’m actually fainting as I re-live this moment. It’s a peanut butter chocolate lava phenomenon."

You can use 4 ramekins or 4 of those small 6 oz pyrex custard bowls & they fit inside 6 qt pressure cooker.
YUM! Sally's PB Chocolate Lava Cake Ramekins