The Dutch Oven Cookbook: Recipes for the Best Pot in Your Kitchen Author: Visit Amazon's Sharon Kramis Page | Language: English | ISBN:
1570614989 | Format: PDF
The Dutch Oven Cookbook: Recipes for the Best Pot in Your Kitchen Description
About the Author
Sharon Kramis was a student and protégé of James Beard and coauthor of Northwest Bounty. Her daughter Julie Kramis Hearne was a chef at the Herbfarm for many years and has owned a chain of panini shops. Both live in Seattle.
- Paperback: 160 pages
- Publisher: Sasquatch Books; 1 edition (September 26, 2006)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1570614989
- ISBN-13: 978-1570614989
- Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.3 x 0.5 inches
- Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
"The Dutch Oven Cookbook: Recipes for the Best Pot in Your Kitchen" is one of only three dutch oven cookbooks I am aware of on Amazon that provides recipes for indoor cooking with dutch ovens. I found this cookbook locally after recently buying my first cast iron dutch oven. Along with many promising recipes come a number of shortcomings, which I didn't fully appreciate until I got the book home.
First off, although the author initially writes that they use both cast iron and enameled cast iron, she goes on later in the book to recommend enameled cast iron, and, indeed, the care instructions at the beginning of the book are geared toward that preference too. Consequently, this book will not replace the likes of "Cast Iron Cooking for Dummies", a popular title that I was hoping to bypass due to its lack of applicable recipes for a dutch oven (most are geared toward a skillet, and the few dutch oven recipes that appear in that book are for the 7 quart size). Secondly, while the capacities called for in the recipes that appear in "The Dutch Oven Cookbook" range from 2-quarts to 5.5-quarts, most are geared toward a 5.5-quart dutch oven. I have two issues with this: First, I only own one dutch oven, not the variety of sizes called for in this cookbook. Secondly, the dutch oven I own is cast iron of the non-enameled type and because it is built by Lodge it is an even 5-quarts, with the next size being the 7-quart size (and there are no 7-quart recipes in this book).
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