DCHP-1 Online
Dutch oven † 
a cast-iron pot with a tight-fitting lid for baking food in the hot ashes of a fire.
- 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.
- 1877 Bread . . . was baked in Dutch ovens, buried in the hot embers of a huge fire outside, near the door.