This recipe was taken from the Everyday Dutch Oven blog. As things neared towards Thanksgiving he started putting up seasonal recipes and descriptions of his (elaborate) Thanksgiving Dutch Oven setups. I saw this recipe earlier in the month and tossed it into my file because of the cranberry. Also, right before Thanksgiving I went to the local Tractor Supply Store for their Black Friday deals. They had a regular height 12 incher for $15 (marked down from $20).
I pulled this recipe from Everyday Dutch Oven. I hadn't cooked it before but decided to give it a shot at my first DOG! I understand it's kind of mean to try something out on strangers but I'll cook what I want to cook, damn it.
The smashing success of the first recipe drove me to try and reproduce it about a week after the first cake. Although it was a while ago I think the two things I did differently were using tinfoil and redoing the coals. I think I was at 4 on the bottom and 18-19 at the top but there may have been 5 on the bottom. The tinfoil was used to help with the cake flip which came out perfectly this time.
Despite everything working against me this recipe was delicious. It was taken from the Yahoo Dutch Oven mailing list. No pictures but it wasn't a pretty cake at all.
3 C. fresh rhubarb, cut into 1/2-inch slices
1 C. sugar
2 tsp. all-purpose flour
1/4 tsp. ground nutmeg
1/4 C. butter or margarine, melted
Batter:
1-1/2 C. all-purpose flour
3/4 C. sugar
2 tsp. baking powder
1/4 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. ground nutmeg
1/4 C. butter or margarine, melted
2/3 C. milk
1 egg
sweetened whip cream, optional
The last cookie was a success. However, it was kind of a pain to get the warm cookie out of the bottom of the oven. While catching up on the dutch oven mailing list I happened to see a thread that mentioned that you can cook in the lid with the entire oven upside down for pies and other baked goods. I call it dutch oven hard mode.
A giant cookie takes the entire batch of cookie dough and puts it into the bottom of the dutch oven. My recipe was the cookie recipe off the back of the Toll House bag. The result was delicious and more food than expected! I have a picture of the finished recipe that I can put up later.
Yet another recipe from the excellent Dutch Oven Madness. I prepared and executed this recipe according to spec. It cooked for about 25 minutes with a rotation at about 15 minutes.
Yet another recipe from the fantastic Dutch Oven Madness. I did this a whole week ago but I should have all the details down.
Absolutely amazing. I'm writing this while waiting for my second batch to ferment. They came out so incredibly well that I couldn't stop thinking about them all day.