Cooking in a cast iron dutch oven, whether in an open fire pit, on the barbeque grill, or in the oven, has become pretty popular these days.  A lot of folks have learned about the wonderful cooking qualities of cast iron cookware and that it is healthier than using modern cookware with toxic substances that can flake off into your food.

If you use a dutch oven in an open fire pit to bake – biscuits, a cake, or cobbler – you are going to use coals as the heat source.  There are several sources of coals: charcoal briquettes, commercially available hard wood charcoal, or coals formed from burning down hard wood.  My wife and I do a lot of primitive camping (called rendezvous) and I always use coals generated from burning down hard wood.  There’s just something about watching and tending a fire that I’ve always enjoyed, and being able to cook with the coals is even more fun!

Stay tuned for Part 2…..