200 pages of Cast Iron hints, care, and other helpful cooking information offered in Dave's first book. This book took over 5 years to test and write all the recipes, over 165 outdoor recipes for your Cast iron Dutch oven!

These recipes are also written so that they can be prepared right in your own kitchen in a flat or "legless" kitchen dutch oven.

Introduction from the Author

This little cookbook that I have written for you, the Dutch oven cook, has been a dream of mine for many years. It has also been a work of testing, tasting, changing, and lots of hard work by me and my many friends of whom cook in outdoor Dutch ovens like me. I cannot forget about my family who has given me many old recipes, some more than seventy-five years old.

Most of these recipes can be used in outdoor ovens as well as the gas or electric models inside your home's kitchen. However, if you have never cooked in a outdoor Dutch oven please buy one and try cooking and baking in it. Cooking outdoors in a Dutch oven is a much healthier way to cook and eat also.

Cooking in a Dutch oven, or Covered Wagon as some people call them, is so simple that anyone can do it with cooking utensils that are sitting right in that kitchen drawer now. The key to learning is to start of by using charcoal briquettes for a heat source and have fun with it!