Anyone have any good dutch oven recipes?

Got bunches! What size of dutch? Baking?

I have 2 10 QT ovens. Any recipes would be appreciated. I am interested in desserts and breakfast dishes mostly but if anyone has some must try recipes I'll take em.

Here is one to start with and one of our favorites. It is almost like a dessert!

Auntie Marie and Me
Cornbread

14 inch Dutch Oven

5 cups of Auntie Maries (Marie Calender’s cornbread mix)
2 cup half and half
2 egg
Juice and zest of one orange (or of one lemon)
What my family likes is to add 1 ½ cup shredded coconut
Add water for consistency (make fairly stiff, not much evaporation)

Pre-heat a little with 10 briquettes on bottom 25-30 on top
(Arrange on the outside of the lid and outer perimeter of the bottom) Check in 25 minutes

You will know when it is done by smell, it pulls away from the dutch , tooth pick comes out clean or, my way is by sound when thumping on golden brown center!

Ever heard of a dump cake?

Any pie or quiche can be baked in a dutch. You will have to use a cake rack to get it off the bottom!

I camp a lot and cook in a dutch oven a lot also. Just about any recipe you can make in a conventional oven you can do in a dutch. The most important thing to remember is heat control. If you are using charcoal briquets there is an ole rule of thumb: put three less the # of briquets under the dutch compared to the # or the dutch and 3 extra on top. For instance I would put 9 briquets under a #12 dutch and 15 on top.

I have made a lot of dishes like pizza, roasted chicken, turkey and stuffing, chilli, biscuits, corn bread, breakfast cassaroles, mashed taters, salsbury steak, chicken fried steak, the list goes on and on.

Dont forget the lid can be used as a fry pan, turn it over and place on coals over fire on rocks. Often times while camping I will be frying say hashedbrowns in the dutch and bacon and eggs on the lid, set another dutch on coals with biscuits and you talk about a great breakfast over an open fire!!

Just about any cake mix with a can of fruit and 7up to get the batter the right consistency is awsome. We've done cherry chocolate, yellow cake with pinnaple and cherry, white cake and pears, kiwi with banana cake, yellow cake and peaches, chocolate cake with bananas and stawberry pie filling. Just experiment, with all the premade cake mixes its super easy!

The most important part of dutch oven cooking is taking care of your dutch! Dont ever, ever, ever wash it with soap! Keep it clean and oiled. If it gets stuck on burnt food in the bottom, put some water in it and boil it loose. I am still cooking with my great grandmothers dutch that she used as a young women cooking for cowboys in the pasture. A helpful tip: when cooking desserts (or anything with much sugar, wich likes to burn) line your dutch with aluminum foil, make sure the lid still has a good seal and when your ready for clean up just pitch the foil!

I agree with Kansasbert! We are about to cook a 25# turkey in our new Maca 17". We have cooked half a bird in deep 14's and they turn out very good!

my boy scout troop made pizza. does anybody have any clue how to make kabobs in a dutch oven?

classic baked beans;

Peach Cobbler in 10" Dutch oven
15 0z. can of peaches
Half bag of yellow or white cake mix
Sprinkle of cinnamon
A few pats of butter
Fill Dutch over in that order and cook until cake mix starts to dry a bit. Depending on heat it will take anywhere from 20 minutes to an hour.

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send me a pm with your e-mail address and I'll send you a complete recipe book for dutch oven cooking...

That's basicly dump cake, mix cherry and pineapple pie filling to make 15 oz. and it tast great too!

Hope this works... this is a very helpful chart and you can use any recipe that you can bake in an ordinary oven.