Thread: Cast iron?

Try adding a few tablespoons of wheat gluten to the mix. It works wonders with whole wheat breads and doughs with a lot of rye in them.

You’re on your own with the pup. I have 3 of assorted ages and I always keep my eye on any food. They act as a team - one distracts you while the others go for it.

It is not cheating to blend flour.
I use half AP and half WW for bread, waffles and pancakes.
When buying WW watch the milling...
Graham flour tends to cut the gluten in bread so I use about 20%
https://culinarylore.com/ingredients...ham-and-durum/

Go with what you can find and when in doubt go for unbleached.

Locally we have a number of small bakeries making great bread...
All of a sudden folk are willing to pay for all the work a great loaf takes.

Pinto beans, and left over smoked spare ribs.

Originally Posted by spazola

Pinto beans, and left over smoked spare ribs.

Now you need some of my buttermilk cornbread, and you'll be set!

Too hot to run the oven, I did seriously consider making some hot water cornbread. You are right I had tortillas,but cornbread would have been better.

Originally Posted by spazola

Too hot to run the oven, I did seriously consider making some hot water cornbread. You are right I had tortillas,but cornbread would have been better.

My friend God created this so that you can bake outdoors with charcol so you don't heat up the house--two of them and you'd be sitting on the porch having a beer while it all cooked--

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon....L._SL1441_.jpg

I also have a 12" one of these--but overall I prefer the Lodge--

https://www.moosejaw.com/product/gsi...yABEgJ_fPD_BwE

For things like cornbread or cakes I rarely just grease the insides and pour batter in as I usually will use a cake pan as it's just easier to get it out and makes cleanup also easier.

A few years ago my best friend and his lovely bride were here at the end of July and she'd never eaten anything cooked in a Dutch over coals--I damn near dug a hole in my backyard to do the pot roast underground but I don't think my landlord would be very understanding.

The roast, bread, potatoes, carrots gravy and even the cobbler were all cooked outside in 100+deg heat in my Dutch Ovens.

Ya need to get you one Charlie-----------

Originally Posted by cudarunner

My friend God created this so that you can bake outdoors with charcol so you don't heat up the house--two of them and you'd be sitting on the porch having a beer while it all cooked--

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon....L._SL1441_.jpg

I also have a 12" one of these--but overall I prefer the Lodge--

https://www.moosejaw.com/product/gsi...yABEgJ_fPD_BwE

For things like cornbread or cakes I rarely just grease the insides and pour batter in as I usually will use a cake pan as it's just easier to get it out and makes cleanup also easier.

A few years ago my best friend and his lovely bride were here at the end of July and she'd never eaten anything cooked in a Dutch over coals--I damn near dug a hole in my backyard to do the pot roast underground but I don't think my landlord would be very understanding.

The roast, bread, potatoes, carrots gravy and even the cobbler were all cooked outside in 100+deg heat in my Dutch Ovens.

Ya need to get you one Charlie-----------

Roy-One of the few things I miss about being a Scoutmaster was that I used troop money, bought some quality dutch ovens and gear, and got our troop seriously into dutch oven cooking. It just wasn't a camp-out for us for awhile without some of the Assistant Scoutmaster's son's dutch oven lasagna, or another's blackberry cobbler (this at Mount Pisgah Campground in NC, notorious for bear visitors!). The problem was that I always had to clean and re-season them; no 13-year old boy was going to do that to my satisfaction-thank god for griddle spray and heavy-duty foil! I miss having access to all that gear (just not enough to supervise 13 year olds sobbing for their mommas or crapping their britches-that was the end of it for me, finally!).

My dad used Green Giant Funds to buy the Stainless Steel sheet metal to make us reflector ovens.

We didn't have cast iron Dutches they were cast aluminum but probably only about 10" across but hey, that food was great. My patrol leader (Carl) ended up being my best friend and has been for around 54 years. Carl liked to eat and we really got to where we could put out some chow. In fact the adults never cooked, they ate with the patrols and they quit arguing about who GOT to eat with us so they started drawing straws and the short straw was the winner.

There were a couple of things from when my son was in Scouts that I enjoy remembering. One was when he was in cub scouts and I showed his den how to boil water in a paper cup. The other was when he had just joined Boy Scouts and they had their first camp out. They were given the instructions for making meals in foil to cook in the coals of the fire. Ours had steak and mushrooms, potatoes in butter and carrots. I used mustard to write our names on the foil. Well being a good scout I was prepared and took an extra one. Sure as hell there was a kid who didn't bring a meal so we fed him.

While he liked Boy Scouts he Loved playing hockey and he couldn't do both so he chose hockey.

cast iron? ... you guys should have been here today. 3 friends went up to my PACKED! attic and started going thru the stuff to see what they wanted. I thought we had found and removed all the cast iron during the last trip . But I was wrong, so very wrong. They found stacks of cast iron pans , kettles, griddles, and a large Griswold Dutch oven.
There were also two of the 14" pans, a 12", and many smaller sizes. Plus a chicken fryer with lid and other stuff.
My brother now has the dutch oven but passed on the 14" frying pans. One of those is spoken for and the other stuff will go tomorrow.
I will try to get some pics before it is gone and post them here.

Originally Posted by spazola

Too hot to run the oven, I did seriously consider making some hot water cornbread. You are right I had tortillas,but cornbread would have been better.

Here you go Charlie--now to get that Dutch Oven--

https://scoutingmagazine.org/2017/04...ooking-primer/