Dutch oven†

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a cast-iron pot with a tight-fitting lid for baking food in the hot ashes of a fire.

Quotations

1877

Bread . . . was baked in Dutch ovens, buried in the hot embers of a huge fire outside, near the door.

1903

In this receptacle we left all our canned goods, our extra clothing, and our Dutch oven.

1913

Cooking [is done in] bake kettles, or dutch-ovens, a cast-iron pot, with a closefitting top of the same metal.