I have been cooking and baking since I was 10 years old. My mother always used the cast iron fry pan. I use to make a lot of cakes and entered them in our local county fair. I would always make a piineapple upside down cake and I would bake it in the large cast iron fry pan. I always took the blue ribbon in that class. I had a friend and she wanted my recipe. I gave it to her and she told me that was the same recipe that she made. Then she wanted to know why mine was so much better. I asked her if she baked it in a cast iron pan. She told me that she did not even own a cast iron pan. I told her that that was the secret to making a good pineapple upside down cake. I am going to try a pizza in it next. You are never too old to learn new things. And I'm going to try pineapple upside-down cake in my cast iron too. Thanks for sharing. ~ MaryJane

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