SC - Re: seeking recipes (Outdoor Feast)

[Anne-Marie Rousseau]

Hiya from Anne-Marie...
> we are asked:
> Might these "Deutsch" cooking pots be the precursor to what we call
"dutch"
> ovens? The idea of the rim and handy loop handle and handle jack coming
later?
>  Sounds like the german cooks were leaps ahead of the rest, how clever to
> raise the hearth up so the cook could stand to work instead of bending.
> 

The propaganda I got with my dutch ovens says its because in the old days
to call something "dutch" meant false, as in "dutch courage", and "to go
dutch" was to have each person pay for themselves. Not very PC, I know. So
a "dutch oven" in this parleyance was an oven that wasnt really an oven.

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