Cooking the Dutch Oven Way [Paperback]

Woody Woodruff (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 1989

In this edition, Woody offers over 180 recipes to include a new section with recipes for a health heart. With a unique temperature control chart and sections on the selection, use, and care for a dutch oven, this cookbook is a valuable resource. The dutch oven has been used for centuries to cook for large groups and families at home and on horse trails or river banks. If used properly, the dutch over can be used to cook for individuals. Using a dutch oven takes finesse and fire - side savvy. It is more than just a pot. You can bake in it, cook in it and fry in it.

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From the Back Cover

You can use these simple recipes to make delicious meals without a lot of fuss, at your campsite or even in your own backyard. Whether you're a Dutch oven novice or a veteran cooker, this essential reference will tell you all you need to know to cook, fry, or bake quick and tasty dishes for breakfast, lunch, dinner-even dessert! You'll learn how to select, use, and care for your Dutch oven; tips for storing meat and cooking wild game; low-salt, low-cholesterol, heart-healthy dishes; plus more than 180 mouthwatering and easy to make recipes!

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

About the Author

Woody is a dutch oven designer and a former scout master. His talents for using the dutch oven to cook is a legacy. His oven can be found in use in the United States, Europe, South America, and Canada.

Product Details

• Paperback: 166 pages
• Publisher: Ics Books; 2 edition (May 1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0934802513
• ISBN-13: 978-0934802512
• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 5.9 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,831,461 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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101 of 107 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Just right for outdoor cooks, July 16, 1999

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This review is from: Cooking the Dutch Oven Way (Paperback)

I'm prejudiced -- my father wrote this book. He designed a cast aluminum dutch oven for a piece of cookware that the Boy Scouts could pack in their backpacks. Everyone wanted to know, "what can you cook in it"? His answer was always, "anything you can cook in the oven in your kitchen you can cook in the dutch oven". These recipes are fast and easy and can be used whether you are eating in our camping out. I hope you will buy and try these recipes as a testament to a man who dedicated 60 of his 75 years to Boy Scouting! He passed away in 1990 but left behind a bunch of full stomachs. Thanks!

43 of 46 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good info, but missing a certain something..., January 21, 2003

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Jason J Hyatt (Batavia, NY United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cooking the Dutch oven way (Paperback)

Overall this book is just fine for someone interested in cooking with a DO. The mix of recipes is fine, but they just seemed to be missing something. They were all more or less of the "huck a good sized hen into the pot and cook for a while until done" variety. All of the recipes look tasty, though I would have liked to have seen a few more meat dishes, especially some more creative ones. Let's be honest, when you pay for a book you'd like to see more than "...put a 5 lb beef roast into a preheated Dutch oven, salt and pepper to taste, cook until done." Give me a little something to work with here! Inspire me! I can already cook a roast like this in the oven. Having said all of that, I would still reccommend this book. The vegetable dishes and desserts look fantastic and I can't wait to try some of them. As an aside, this is the only Dutch oven book I've seen with heart-healthy recipes as well as more traditional fare. Given that the average DO book requires the use of a metric ton of lard, this will probably appeal to a wider range of cooks.

28 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Good book for a historian., June 22, 2006

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David Robinson (Oakland, CA USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Cooking the Dutch Oven Way (Paperback)

I love camping and eating by the fire and was looking for a good book on dutch oven cooking. This book is not it.
The back cover states "Woodruff perfected these recipes ... for more than 60 years as a scoutmaster ..."
That period is 1929 to 1989, the publishing date.
By today's standards, these recipes are dated. My son is a scout, and I have been on a number of scout camping trips - and believe me scouts mostly need simple meals to prepare. But Woody is too much into canned veggies, soups, and packaged mixes. You have to look long and hard to find a recipe in this book that uses fresh ingredients.
I suspect that if Woody were alive today, given his obvious commitment to Scouting, he would update most of his recipes to reflect more of today's thinking about healthy eating and fresh food.