These are quite helpful to raise your baking skills. A newbie can easily obtain a spit (6 slot container, cost 3 gold or so), and they can also obtain the two ingredients (Fire Beetle Eye and Rat Ears) from the respective newbie zones excluding the Feerott and Inothule. Newbies can make these on the go and not only does your skill improve but you save money from buying rations and so forth.
Helper of newbies (and the occasional veteran) everywhere.