[Sca-cooks] Period dutch ovens

Judith Epstein judith at ipstenu.org
Wed Dec 9 14:14:47 PST 2009


On 9 Dec 2009, at 2:54 PM, Michael Gunter wrote:

> Cooking pots similar to our Dutch ovens are ancient. The reason modern Dutch ovens
> 
> aren't correct is because they are cast iron, which wasn't really perfected until the
> 
> very late 1600's. Earlier cooking pots were usually made from clay, tin, steel, bronze,
> 
> etc....

And pig-iron as well, no? Which... is ancient? The reason our modern Dutch ovens aren't period correct is because they say Lodge on the lid.

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D'vorah, mka Judith Epstein
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