SC - dutch oven baking

[Dan Gillespie]

Howdy from West Virginia:
        One trick that was used a lot in my Peace Corps days was to take the
largest covered pot that you could come by.  Fairly similar in design to
dutch ovens, but they were made locally of cast aluminum.  Anyway, you would
put either a layer of clean gravel or clean sand in the bottom to provide a
sort of a heat reservoir/ buffer against sudden increases in baking
temperature.  The items to be baked were placed in tins on top of the sand.
Many batches of banana & pumpkin bread were made this way by me to help
soothe home sickness & take the edge off my sweet tooth.  Most folks
probably don't realize just how much refined sugar that we consume in the
First world in our daily diets til you go where processed sugar is not a
part of the daily diet.
        With fond thoughts of spicy frogs legs soup & sesame seed candy,
                                        Antoine
Dan Gillespie
dangilsp at intrepid.net
Dan_Gillespie at usgs.gov
Martinsburg, West Virginia, USA 

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