Getting Started with Dutch Oven Cooking – Dutch Oven Cookbooks

It's been a while since the last post in this series of Getting Started with Dutch Oven Cooking.  I hope you've had a chance to do a little cooking in your dutch oven.  Since the last post, I attended a dutch oven get together and met some people that provide wonderful resources to help you with your dutch oven cooking.  I'll share those later.

In these last two articles, I want to share with you a number of resources for dutch oven recipes.  In this article, I'll talk about dutch oven cookbooks and then in the last articles, I'll talk about some great online resources for dutch oven recipes and other dutch oven resources.

There are tons of dutch oven cookbooks.  They range from providing very basic recipes to the truly gourmet.  And a lot in between.   So today, we'll look at several cookbooks and what they provide.  If you have a favorite, I hope that you'll share that everyone in the comments below.

101 Things to Do With a Dutch Oven

101 Things to Do With a Dutch OvenThis first book has a many instructions and helps for the first time dutch oven cook, but also has enough recipes to keep you busy and interested.

Vernon Winterton, the author of 101 Things To Do With a Dutch Oven has been cooking with dutch ovens for over 30 years.  He has qualified three times for the World Championship Dutch Oven Cook Off.  He shares his favorite recipes and tips in 101 Things to Do With A Dutch Oven.

This would be a great book to get you started.  It has delicious recipes, plus a bunch of tips and helps to get you cooking as a pro in your dutch oven.

The Beginners Guide to Dutch Oven Cooking

Beginner's Guide to Dutch Oven CookingThis book is one of the best selling dutch oven cooking books on Amazon.  As far as recipes, it has sections for recipes to get you started, appetizers, soups and stews, side dishes, breads, main dishes, breakfast, desserts, and finally, recipes for cooking for a group.

Here is one of the reviews of this book on Amazon:

"I was asked to take some of the teenagers at church camping this summer and didn't really have much Dutch oven experience other than when I was camping as a youth. So I got this book and MANY others from the library. This was my favorite book and after flipping through it I realized that I wanted to make copies of about 1/2 of the book, so instead I order one for the church to keep and pass it off to the leaders in charge of camping next year. The book has a lot of great how-to info that I found very helpful, but you don't necessarily have to read all of that to use a recipe. Each recipe tells you how many coals to put on top and how many to put on bottom. That made it SO much easier for me."

 

For more information on this book, click here.

International Dutch Oven Society Cookbooks

2011 Dutch Oven Championship RecipesArchive Cook Book 400 RecipesOn the International Dutch Oven Society website, they have dutch oven cookbooks that contain the recipes from the world championship dutch oven cook-offs along with a general recipe book that has a large number of recipes.  There are truly all types of recipes here.  Many of the world championship cook off recipes will be a bit more challenging, but the Archive Cookbook has a great variety (over 400 recipes!).  I have the Archive Cookbook along with two of the World Championship Cookbooks and they have some great recipes in them.  After all, these recipes are from some of the best in the world!

 

In the next and final article in this series, I'll share my favorite online dutch oven cooking resources.  That should give you everything you need to cook like a pro in your dutch oven.

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