With cold weather, comes daily fires in the woodstove, cheerily keeping my little house toasty warm. Sometimes, I take advantage of the heat to cook a meal or two. Recently, I tried baking potatoes in my cast iron dutch oven, a vintage find at a garage sale years ago. First, I washed, pricked and wrapped my potatoes in foil and placed them into the pot.
I've found it works best to diffuse the heat a little, otherwise things boil far too quickly (or bake, in this case). Using canning rings makes a useful trivet.
And then, it's a matter of plonking the dutch oven onto the stove, stoking the fire, and allowing your whatever-it-is to cook until done. I left the potatoes for a few hours, and they came out perfectly!
The top of our stove doesn't get that hot. We can simply put the foil wrapped potatoes inside the stove to cook too. One year we did warm a pizza on top, when power was out.
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