Ellen Woodruff Anderson - Cooking the Dutch Oven Way, 4th

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Page numbers refer to the printed book. Text design: Elizabeth Kingsbury Layout: Mary Ballachino and Melissa Evarts Project editor: Lynn Zelem Library of Congress Cataloguing-in-Publication Data Woodruff, Woody. Cooking the dutch oven way / by Woody Woodruff. Fourth edition / revised by Ellen Woodruff Anderson and Jane Woodruff. pages cm Includes index. E-ISBN 978-0-7627-9472-0 1.

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TX840.D88W66 2013 641.5'89dc23 2013006747 In over 30 years as a full-time guide for coastal kayak and other water-based backcountry programs, I simply don't leave home without a Dutch oven. Multiple-use is our mantra in our outdoor kitchen and nothing defines that better than a Dutch oven. I consider the Woodruff books to be the granddaddy of all Dutch oven cookbooks... so much so, we named our redesigned Dutch oven after Woody. Michael Gray, Uncommon Adventures CONTENTS

To Mom and Dad Special thanks to Jennifer Anderson Lucas for her help with the photos, editing, recipes, and encouragement. GRACE: For food For raiment For life For opportunity For friendship and fellowship We thank thee, O Lord.

FOREWORD Wouldnt it be incredible to know someone who had reinvented the wheel? Well, the late Woody Woodruff didnt invent a new design for a wheel, but he did invent a better Dutch oven. Woody was a Dutch oven master. He fine-tuned his cooking technique during a half-century of training Boy Scout leaders, demonstrating open-fire and charcoal cooking hundreds of times. His innovationperfecting a new rectangular design for the traditionally round Dutch ovenearned him international fame. Woody demonstrated his mastery of outdoor cooking at scouting programs in Trinidad, Jamaica, Guyana, and Canada, as well as the United States. Further, he was certified as a Scoutmaster training expert by Scoutings international headquarters at Gilwell Park, England.

Woodys greatest accomplishment in his outdoor education career was his development of remarkable recipes for outdoor cooking. While these recipes are ideal for Dutch oven cooking, they are also useful for any situation where a one-pot dish is appropriate. Frankly, I hate cleaning up utensils and having to work with large fires, so one-pot cooking is always appropriate for me. Trading the hassles of multiple cooking pots for the ease of finding a recipe that you can throw together into just one vesseland of having a meal that basically cooks itselfmakes this book a boon for any busy (or lazy) cook. Woodys one-pot meals go beyond main-course dinner concoctions. Breakfast meals, desserts, breads, cakesthey are all here.

Specific menus include fish, poultry, vegetables... and meats. And oh, what meats! All types and combinations. Just to read these recipes is enough to get your salivary glands working. Woody suffered a heart attack late in life that caused him to make a major revision in his recipes. He created the first heart-smart Dutch oven meals with low-fat, low-cholesterol ingredients, which were included in the books second edition.

This tradition continues with this fourth edition of newly revised and annotated recipes. Since its first publication many years ago, Woodys Cooking the Dutch Oven Way has been a best-seller in outdoor literature. It fulfills a significant niche in outdoor lore as well as specialized cooking literature. And it provides all outdoor travelers with both traditional and modern recipes and techniques to fully enjoy one of the most enjoyable methods of cooking outdoorscooking the Dutch oven way! William W. Forgey, MD Friend and fellow Dutch oven cook Dr. Forgey is a member of the National Health and Safety Committee of the Boy Scouts of America, the task force chairman of the national BSA Wilderness First Aid Program, an avid Dutch oven cooking enthusiast, and was a close friend of Woodys.

INTRODUCTION By L. L. Woody Woodruff, 1988 The recipes that I have brought together in the following pages are reflections of the time since 1920 when I went on my first overnight with a number of friends. My father and the other adults slept on a bedspring and mattress they had brought along in the Model T truck and placed on the ground. The rest of us slept on the ground with an assortment of blankets and covers made into bedrolls. Sleeping bags were scarce in those days.

Our cooking was quite elaborate. Dad buried potatoes in the coals and smoked up a number of Mothers pots and pans in the ordeal of preparing the meal for fifteen or twenty hungry boys. We ate well, but what a mess to clean up, and what a lot of time wasted!