Dutch Oven Cooking - A Fun Year Round Activity

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We love to cook with our dutch ovens year round!

This is the 'soup kettle' over an open fire - we also did bannock in the cast iron fry pan on this fire

Campfire Bannock

Mix:
5 cups flour
5 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
Mix:
1 1/2 cups warm water
1 cup oil ( or any solid fat melted)


Make a well in the center of the flour mix - pour in liquid - mix quickly, knead about 10 times - roll on floured surface into 2 rounds or 1 large for cast iron pan and bake for  approximately 10 min each side until lightly browned.






This recipe can also be used to make stick buns - small pieces of the dough may be put on the end of a stick and cooked  over the fire.  Great fun for kids!
You can also take bits of dough and flatten a little in your hand to a hamburger bun size - fry it in oil or bacon drippings - slice fry bannock in half - good with hamburgers or sloppy Joe's in the bush.  Also for breakfast - put bacon or other meat, egg, cheese inside and enjoy.

Vegetables Over Fire

Veggies cooking in Dutch Kettle over open fire on a tripod.  Always warm your water in the dutch oven - if you pour cold liquid in a hot dutch oven you can cause it to crack.

This is carrots, rhutabaga and potatoes

It was 12 degrees  farenheit this day but it sure was fun.






Here are the guys getting the cook fire going

Snowed really hard all afternoon

We were cooking for about 6 hours

It sure was good

While this was going on we got the dutch ovens going in the shed

Here there is a chicken cooking in the bottom right oven and ribs in the upper one.  The one on the left is a blueberry cobbler.  We also did rice  a little later.


We are in the shed because of the wind Here we have the briquettes on top and below each oven


Here are the Pork ribs - by the time I got the camera out they were 3/4 gone already

Here is what is left of the chicken - 

I cooked the chicken with one can of beer-


it was so tender the  boys called it pulled chicken.










The rice was really light and fluffy

And finally - dessert - Blueberry Cobbler

And to all a good night !