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Article: Cast-Iron Occasions; Warm Feelings About Open-Hearth Cookery
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- January 17, 1996
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I can cook 16 buttermilk biscuits in my cast-iron Dutch oven
over wood coals in the fireplace in 20 minutes. That's also the time
it takes to cook 16 buttermilk biscuits in my GE oven. But it's a
lot more fun to cook in the fireplace because it puts me in touch
with Washington's culinary past . . . and with my own as well.
Traders from Holland brought great numbers of these cast-iron
pots for bartering with the Indians. And my Dutch oven -- a
three-footed, no-nonsense number called a cast-iron camp stove --
is almost a dead ringer for the design that Paul Revere is said to
have perfected and sold throughout the American Colonies.
Today you can go watch cast-iron Dutch oven ...