Quote Originally Posted by DZEC View Post
New to this thread. Love cooking on cast iron.

I read a piece in a Victorian cookbook several years ago that advocated cooking on slightly rusty cast iron to make sure the family had sufficient iron in their diet. Makes sense?
As kids we ate most of our meals prepared on cast iron. When my little sister went through puberty she never had the problems of iron poor blood like her friends did. Mom always said it was the cast iron that gave little Sis her good health. There was no rust on Mom's cast iron either. Her skillets were black as coal.