[Sca-cooks] Re: Dutch Oven

[Johnna Holloway]

Something like the Dutch Cook Pot featured
here
http://www.historicenterprises.com/cart.php?m=product_detail&p=398

Johnnae

Jenn Strobel wrote:

>I'm assuming that you're talking about a "huispot" (literally: house pot). 
>My assumption has always been that it was crockery rather than metal because 
>the cooking time was so incredibly long, and it seems to me that putting 
>coals on metal would heat the top of a metal pot too much before the heat 
>would be spread throughout the food and the rest of the pot.
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>Just some thoughts.
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>Odriana
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