Circle L Chuckwagon Club will hold a Dutch Oven Clinic and Tasting from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. this Saturday, June 20, at Dot's Ace Hardware 3401 Richmond Road.If you've always wanted to learn about dutch oven cooking, you're invited to attend this clinic featuring champion cookers from Circle L who will teach you cooking techniques for that perfect food. Everything from controlling the heat, seasoning, cleaning your dutch oven and proper care of your cast iron. In addition, they will be cooking sourdough biscuits with gravy, assorted cobblers, and cinnamon rolls.

Recipes and cookbooks will be available for sale but best of all, you'll be able to sample some of the food that they cook.

What is a Dutch Oven?

A dutch oven is like a camping cook pot and resembles a witch's cauldron with some pots that sit on three legs made of heavy cast iron metal or aluminum.  It is used for the slow cooking of food over hot coals good for making delicious roast thus the name pot roast. The dutch oven is also great for casseroles (which means pot in French), desserts, chili, biscuits and gravy just to name a few.

In 1704, an Englishman named Abraham Darby decided to go to the Netherlands to observe the Dutch system for making these cooking vessels. Four years later, back in England, Darby patented a casting procedure similar to the Dutch process and began to produce cast-metal cooking vessels for Britain and her new American colonies. Thus, the term “Dutch oven” has endured for more than 300 years, since at least 1710, according to Wikipedia.

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