Dutch Oven Group gets cooking at the Daingerfield State Park
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If you are interested in outdoor cooking, join the Little Pine Dutch Oven Group D.O.G.S meeting at the Daingerfield State Park. The meetings will be held the first Saturday of each month at 10 a.m. at the pavilion in the park. The first one will be held on Aug. 2. Ranger Onlie Mcgee said beginners and cooking experts alike are welcome.
“You can learn the basic and advanced cooking techniques,” she said. “We will have monthly demonstrations and tastings.
“Campers and visitors are welcome to attend and participate in the food tasting. This is a great way to make new friends as you share and trade your favorite recipes. You must bring your own Dutch oven and ingredients you wish to cook with. A Dutch oven is a thick-walled (usually cast iron but also ceramic and clay) cooking pot with a tight-fitting lid. Dutch ovens have been used as cooking vessels for hundreds of years.
Wikipedia gives the following history of the Dutch oven.
During the late 17th century, the Dutch system ofproducing these cast metal cooking vessels was more advanced than the English system. The Dutch used dry sand to make their molds, giving their pots a smoother surface. Consequently, metal cooking vessels produced in the Netherlands were imported into Britain. In 1704, an Englishman named Abraham Darby decided to go to the Netherlands to observe the Dutch system for making these cooking vessels. Four years later, back in England, Mr. Darby patented a casting procedure similar to the Dutch process and began to produce cast-metal cooking vessels for Britain and her new American colonies. Thus the term “Dutch oven” has endured for over 300 years, since at least 1710.
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