Dad

Cobbler can be made in several different ways. The basic requirements are:

DUTCH OVEN (the Boy Scout Dutch Oven is considered one of the best because it has legs, handles, a concave cover, and a lip around the cover)

FIRE (eighteen full glowing charcoal - twelve on top and six below)

INGREDIENTS:
1 large can of fruit with the syrup (peach, apple, cherry, etc.)
1 box of cake mix (white, yellow or even chocolate)
Cooking oil (cooking; not crankcase)
Optional: eggs, cinnamon

Start the charcoal (use a woodchip/wax starter, a starter chimney; no chemicals please.)

Preheat the oven (this decreases cleaning efforts)

Enter ingredients in one of two ways:

In a bowl, mix the cake with the syrup from the fruit. Adding oil and eggs will result in a more moist, cakey cobbler. Place fruit into the oven. Pour the mixed cake batter over the fruit.

Place the fruit and syrup into the oven. Pour the dry cake mix over the fruit. For a delightful apple cobbler, place spoonfuls of butter over the dry mix. Sprinkle with cinnamon.

Place cover on the oven with twelve charcoal briquettes on top.Bake for about 45 minutes. Serve from the dutch oven.

When the oven is empty, place about an inch of water in the oven, return cover and place over the charcoal.

When you are done eating (enjoy it for at least ten or fifteen minutes), remove the cover, swish the water around to loosen all food particles, rinse out oven, and return empty oven to fire (without cover) to drive moisture from the pores of the Oven. After it is dry, coat lightly with oil. Please, please -

NO SOAP!

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