How to Bake Cornbread in a Dutch Oven with Wood Coals
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- Опубліковано 11 вер 2024
- How to Bake Cornbread in a Dutch Oven with Wood Coals
If you’re new to cast iron and Dutch oven cooking, cornbread is a great beginner recipe to try. Cornbread is the easiest thing to bake in a Dutch oven because it reveals clues when it’s done more than any other baked good. Give this a try the next time you’re doing any outdoor cooking- and don’t forget the bacon grease!
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Basic cornbread recipe:
2 cups cornmeal mix
1 ½ cups milk or buttermilk
2 eggs
2 tablespoons oil, butter or grease
Whisk ingredients together in a medium mixing bowl and pour into a buttered baking pan, 10” cast iron skillet or 10” Dutch oven.
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I just stumbled onto this man and i love him. he is a master at what he does.
Thanks Jon so much for watching
I have been watching you a few months now and this video made me realize why I love your teaching so much. My grandmother taught me the bacon grease in the cornbread trick and your tips and cooking style is so much like hers! I hope to keep learning from you where she left off. Absolutely enjoy your show.
I like Corn bread. I like the comment “ give them a checker card. It ain’t done it ain’t done” that’s awesome
I really enjoy your UA-cam page. As a historical reenactor I love learning ways to cook for a hungry Army...
THIS is the transition video! From the old intro music to the music you use now. I've been enjoying watching these from the beginning, in order, while I watch the new ones, to see how you got to what you do now.
Thanks for watching my friend
Kent- I love your videos! I'm a Southern Gal, so I growed-up using a cast iron skillet. We just "retired" to an off-grid ranch this year, and I'm trying to live as authentic and natural as possible. So am working with a dutch oven almost every day now. If y'all ever get to North Central Nevada, I'd be honored to have you over for some good country cookin! :)
Thanks my wife is from Elko
I am an avid reader and so can tell you what an accomplishment it is to have your cook-book honored like that. A cook-book of yours was on my to do list. Now it is on my bucket list. 😀
Congratulations on your book success, Kent. You seem like a good man and have worked a lot of hard miles and you deserve it. Blessings to you and your family this holiday season. Keep up the good work and hopefully someone will cook for you on Thanksgiving!
thanks so much Ryan-appreciate the kind words
This guy reminds me of my granddad. I watch these for memories of what I grew up with. Awesome videos.
Thanks Jordan
Coming from Princeton Texas and always making our cornbread in a Dutch oven /large cast iron skillet. So humbled to see you showing the skill to the world. 🖤🖤
It is true comfort food
I made this for the umpteenth time today (to go with my Cornish game hens in another Dutch oven!), and it's always great. I use a 14" Dutch oven; however, I pour the batter into a 10" cast iron skillet and put the skillet inside the Dutch oven. For starters, I don't have a 10" Dutch oven. Furthermore, this technique allows me to just pick up the skillet and serve directly from there. I have an iron lid for the skillet, too, so leftovers stay right there.
I've baked cornbread in an iron skillet in the oven for decades, but just baked my first in a dutch oven over coals. As a guest, I had no control over the wood used in the fire. Using a trivet with about 5" legs, and my new Lodge #8 camp dutch oven, I managed a pretty good batch on my first attempt. In hindsight, I should have taken it off of the bottom heat 2 or three minutes earlier, and continued the top heat or 2 or three minutes longer, but I was well within the ballpark. This is entirely doable with a little practice. Thank you, Kent!
Glad to help George
Congratulations on your cookbook placement, ain't nothing like homemade dishes and thank you for the video, again congratulations Shannon and Kent, you 2 are great
Thanks so much
Dear Mr. Rollins:
I've been doing this very same thing for a lot of years now. I've used Buttermilk, and added a little Baking Soda along with the Baking Powder, and Bacon Grease is just fine. We don't have any Mesquite here in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, but we do have an abundance of Black Oak, the best Oak there is to use for firewood, it burns hot and slow, and leaves almost no ashes. Cornbread, served up with Beef and Beans with lots of butter, and a good amount of good old Blackstrap Sorghum Molasses for the cornbread is just about heaven.
It does my heart good to see you and your wife working together, it brings back memories of when my late wife and I spent so many wonderful hours cooking together, gardening, putting up firewood for the winter (usually about 8 cords of Black Oak), , canning, pickling, gathering wild blackberries,or just sitting in the evening reading and thanking the Lord for our day and one another, especially for the Love for each other that he gave us. I wish she was still with me, or that I was with her, I wouldn't care which, as long as we are together. Some day in Glory we'll be together again. I wish you all a wonderful Thanksgiving, treasure it and the memories you all make together.
God Bless You and Yours
Don Denison
Don- beautiful country you come from, my wife is from Northern Nevada. And oak is a great wood. I'm very blessed to have her every day and sure don't take it for granted. Not many folks can work so closely with their spouse, but it sounds like you know that joy. Thanks sir for the comment and for watching. Hope you have a very blessed Thanksgiving
I've never cooked cornbread in the house that looked as good as that did Kent.... great video! Thanks for sharing! Butter on the cornbread and some pinto beans sure sounds good right now!!
you bet!
SuperDave21 the miracle of cast iron
Cowboy Kent Rollins wheel
I like to cook my cornbread in cast iron ( in my Electric oven) Butter and syrup on it. My Dad was from the south and that was the way I grew up eating it
Kent gotta choose one. Cornbread with chili or Cornbread with honey butter.
I recently bought some of his Red River Ranch seasoning, and upon looking at the order form that came with it, I found a hand written by thanks on it. That folks is classy dude. Will be doing more business with him.
Bill thanks for watching and your business
The Beagle on the table haha! I love it! I bet you set the food police in a tizzy with that lol.
Just happened to come across this Video !
Loved it. I’ve been cooking with cast Iron, for approximately 15 yrs. Dutch ovens from 6” up to 14”. Several skillets and one Oval roaster.
My mother would heat the bacon grease or lard in a iron skillet, then she would sprinkle a layer on corneal on top. She would brown the meal, then pour the cornmeal batter in.
She would always comment, she didn’t want no “ Blonde Cornbread “. Had to be golden brown, top and bottom ! Good memories!!!
Best thing to cook with, Thanks so much for watching
Corn bread in the Dutch oven sounds delicious bud. You're such a good teacher of this Dutch oven cooking I'm always bragging you to my wife. She thinks I'm needing to make my chicken and potatoes
Thanks Dave and thanks so much for both of you watching
I feel like I won the lotto when I found your channel this morning! Cathy Wv.
Me too I just started watching Kent I love cooking too this man is awesome cooking old west I love it
Thanks for watching
I'm gonna order that book. I still can't believe no ones given you a network show. All the best.
hope you enjoy it- all I know is they ain't waiting on me!
my husband and I watched you perform at the Stagecoach Festival. We bought your cookbook, there's a lot of for sure keepers in it!
Your stake and bread pudding sample was awsome!
Thanks Shelly glad y'all are enjoying
The best....yumm yumm...congrats on your book
appreciate it diana
I'm not sure how I got to your channel but don't know how I haven't had it in my life until now. Especially since you are in my state too! What a awesome channel and spirit behind it. Please keep it up, UA-cam needs more channels like this and people like you two.
Thank you, Mr. Rollins, I've been dialing back the heat on the bottom, and watching this shows me what to look for and when. Wish I could show you the pot I bake it in, a three-legged, handled pan that's pitted from age but still produces cornbread that slides right out. I usually cook up the bacon in the pan, let the pan cool a little, and add the bacon into the batter. Oh, and greetings from up north in the Adirondacks!
Now that sounds like a well seasoned piece of iron, thanks for watching
Wow, that was some mighty fine cornbread. Congratulations for making Amazon's top 100!!!
thanks Todd
That looks so good I love cornbread with some ham and beans and fried taters...
Thank you! Wanted to use cast iron since I was a kid but was kinda disconnected from my grandmother. My husband got me one skillet recently and your tips got me frying eggs this morning after my husband sanded that stupid preseasoning off a couple days ago. Im planning on slowly transitioning to just cast iron this year. Thank you for helping me pass down this knowledge to my kids!
Just recently started watching, still watching & loving all the videos, they give me patience and remind me why i love cookin up a great meal now n then.. they are all unique respectful humble and funny better than any kinda cookin channel you can find.
Ive been learning so much from them its amazing especially with cast iron.
Hope your doing well Kent and more vids to come, God Bless brother.
Thanks so much and God Bless you as well
Best cook in the world...love your awesome videos.Just bought my first set of cast iron skillets...love em
Thanks Larry
Way to go! Got to get me one of those cook books for sure. Just getting into cast iron cooking and so far you haven't steered me wrong. Thanks Kent
I'm lovin' the beagle shots and references in all these videos.
Nice job. I have always wanted to try this with my dutch oven. Next time i go camping i for see cornbread with that country breakfast.
Around in we tell people that come to eat and want to see the food. We tell them that if you're looking you ain't cooking. Love your videos.
Cornbread cooking.... memories made with mom.... girls and I do this now days...
Great recipe. Made it last week camping and everyone loved it
Thank you Karl for watching
had homemade cornbread and homemade beef/vegetable soup yesterday. yummy. baked indoors in the oven.keep those recipes coming. love the videos. I like the "holey" shovel. I guess it allows the ashes to fall through.
Yep the shovel works great
Mr Kent I'm very Impressed with This Video. I never seen this done B4 & I'm form NC. Some of us are Collecting cast Iron again. I'm not clear on why it was removed from the Fire, but I plan on trying this one Day. Also impressed you have a Wife so Much younger than you, you did well on that as well Mr. Kent.
Very happy for you both to prosper from this...you absolutely deserve it..best channel so far...dont go to hollywood tho...pleeeze
Just a quick note to let you know that we got your cookbook. It is beautiful, with great stories as well as wonderful recipes with tempting pictures to go with them. I love the size of the book, too. Very nice! This is a keeper! Thanks for doing such a great job!
Thanks Patricia so much we hope you enjoy the book
Omg! That cornbread looks mighty fine! Mighty fine indeed! I need me some!
Im a cook cherokee club lake house but i have learned much from this 'ol cowboy!! Class act ❤
That's one LUCKY doggie!!... Friend of mine just bought me your cookbook and I LOVE it!!
oS glad you are enjoying
Congratulations on you book ratings. I know I love mine and thank you so much for the signing card.I cherish it as much as I do the book. God bless you both.
Raised on cornbread! Thanks for the Dutch oven method!
It is fine dinning
Brother Cowboy you just proved my point and now I gotta try this technique and apply it to camping with stainless steel...I knew there was a way to bake directly over the coals without having to Dry Bake inside the Stainless steel which with camping equipment is very hard on the gear because of it's thin walls...I'll give this a go and let you know how it turns out and a shout out of course on the video I make...
Thanks for watching
Just planing to take the family camping and lost my old cornbread recipe and this is what I grew up cooking with Grandma and the boy scouts. Thank You and was so entertained, I'm still happy and laughing. Might just have to go out back yard in slippers and give it a go, or I'll be dreaming at night till I get this done
Thanks for watching and hope you enjoy
The more i watch your videos, the more I love you. You are the only one I have found on youtube that cooks like I do, here in Idaho. Outside. Just gotta make a fire and get some coals goin.
Thanks for watching
I like Mr. Rollins, much charisma. Hello from England.
Thanks Ben so much and Howdy
Man, Kent's style would put most if not all them QVC baking gadgets to shame. Good to see traditions being kept alive. Now if only we have Kent's equivalent to some good old fashioned Injun cooking.
god d cowboy kent rollins all i have to say is youre an inspiration i wish my life would turn out as awesome as yours and by the way i started using my grandmas cast iron skillets i found in the basement and man im never goin back one day when i dont have to do the food bank thing im gunna buy your cookbook AND spices even though i have a very select following with my own spice blend
Thank you Tom for watching
I really enjoy all your videos Mr. Kent you and the Mrs. Rollins I really appreciate and enjoy all your videos the the theme song make me happy seriously I love it.
I love cornbread with mayo and bacon. It is yummy! Thanx for your videos.
Our pleasure
Wow that cornbread looks really nice cheers on showing us how to make it in a Dutch oven god bless you and your family 👍🏽
Thanks and God Bless you as well
I have both of your cookbooks. I've made a few recipes from them but I just like reading from it and really enjoy the photos. Looking forward to book number three.
Love the way you make and bake your Cornbread. I put Pork Rinds in mine and make Crackin Cornbread. Along with my Hamhocks and Great Northern Beans and Fried Tadders. Yummy Good. Your the best cook ever Kent. God bless you and your wife.
Thanks for watching Phillip and God bless you
Great job Kent, please keep em coming !! Thanks, Cliff
sure will Cliff
Another great video Kent, and thanks much! With my mom being from the deep south, I grew up on buttered corn bread, and while I cook exclusively on cast iron, I don't have a Dutch oven or tall trivet yet.
cast skillets work great too!
Al Machado the Cowboys quiet educational I've learned several things by watching him got three dutch ovens didn't know about the horseshoe trivets until watching his video time to crank up the old arc welder and make trivets always liked outdoor cooking they always tell us if you can't stand the Heat get out of the kitchen
Wow that's dutch oven cooking 101. Thanks for the lesson.
very welcome
Cast Iron Magic.........love IT!
Ok, this is my first video of yours to watch and I'm hooked
Thanks for joining us
Aww i didnt know you had a youtube channel! I watched you on chopped i was rooting for you to win. Glad to see you again. 😊
Thanks so much for watching then and we are sure proud your joining us know
Just tried this for my first Dutch Oven recipe. Pulled it to soon and not enough coals. It was browning on top n firm but the bottom stuck. I know once I learn more, it’ll get better. Was fun to try. Thx.
Keep on cooking, Thanks for watching
Speechless you guys eat good n healthy n properly
Wish there was a LOVE button on this here instead of a thumbs up lol, gotta love southern food my my my
It is some good cornbread
Just got my new book yesterday, can’t wait to start using it!
Hope you enjoy many happy meals
Yes siree! Great cornbread. My dog loves it too. Thanks. Keep on cookin!
Mighty Fine Information...Many Thanks Kent
In Australia we make a kind of bread like this called damper it's just flour water and a pinch of salt very bland but traditionally eaten with golden syrup or trekle
I have heard of that but never tried it, thanks for watching Sue
Followed your instructions to the T. Came out perfectly. This greenhorn is getting it. Wish I could post a picture here to show it!
Proud for you, thanks for watching
You have the best lump coal I’ve seen on the UA-cam . Would you mind doing a tutorial on the different ways get a fire going. Time, prep, when to and when not to and how much, things like that. Lump for whatever reason has been more than just mines nemesis. Thanks for all the videos. Made a trivet just like yours in your honor when cooking your recipes in my Dutch oven. Was my first weld job and it was fun getting to cook just like you!!
as soon as my dutch oven comes that is what I'm cooking. Man man
pass the real butter please!!! looks so good!!! them dogs eat as good as mine!! hahaha. thanks so much for posting. nothing better than some good brown beans, fried taters and fresh cornbread! favorite meal I think! but all your videos make me hungry! I love food and I love cooking for my family and friends. one of the most gratifying things in my life is to feed people that appreciate a good home cooked meal. GOD bless you, Shannon and them pups!
Thanks and God Bless you as well
Oh I love them Beagle dogs😉thank you so much for all the hard work the two of you put into your shows and thank them doggies as well 🍻cheers.
Our pleasure
Hey Kent. Thanks for the video. I always make white cornbread instead of yellow I do use bacon grease though. Try adding 2 heaping tbsp mayo to your mix. Adds even more moisture.
Thanks Jim, Ihavent tried the mayo in cornbread but have put it in a lot of cakes
Perfect cornbread..mmmmmm, I can already taste it! Thanks for sharing all your mouthwatering recipes 💞✌🤗
Thanks Rebecca for watching
Cowboy Kent Rollins, ur more than welcome, what a treat it is, watching you having fun making our mouths water, lol..always looking forward to your next yummy video/recipe. Have a blessed and wonderful day today:)
Ken looks beautiful I do my cornbread cast iron small frying pan always comes out great fixing to make corn dogs soon
No not corn dogs cornbread fed to the dog... Thank you for another wonderful show... I will be giving this a go with a big pot of soup beans camping next spring... You have given me so much knowledge watching you i know im going to be gaining weight with my month long vacation to the river... Thanks again and what an awesome presentation on the do's and don't do's with this recipe
Our pleasure
nice video kent, and great result on the corn bread! For the BEST corn bread consider grinding your own corn first for the best corn flavor...
My dad them used have an old grinder and he said it made good cornbread
I love cornbread. That looks fantastic.
I enjoy your videos Cookie! Love living in the old time way i ain't no cowboy just a old Kentucky plowboy but it all goes hand and hand I promise ya!
Thanks for watching
Oh, that looks so delicious. You're a great cook
Thanks
Hey Kent, man does that cornbread ever look scrumptious. As mentioned by another contributer, all that's missing is some good beans and smoked ham hocks.
For sure, I'm going to try out the Tres Corn Mexican Bake. Well, I hope I remembered those four words in the correct order. My mother used to bake a fantastic Jalapeño Cornbread. I've got her recipe but it sure doesn't taste the same.
Oh man, a bowl of beans with some good chow chow and a man sized piece of cornbread would sure hit the spot right now on this cold rainy afternoon.
Thanks for sharing another fantastic video.
May God bless best you and yours this coming Holiday season Kent.
Stan
Charcoal briquettes are better suited for paving a driveway.🤗
Congatulations on making the top 100 cookbooks.
The only reason you were not number one is they didn't try that cornbread.😉
Thanks Kevin
Kent you know I have that cookbook in my cowboy cooking arsenal 🤠
Thanks Michael for watching
This is the best Dutch oven cooking video I have ever seen. Too bad I didn't see it long ago. I know better now.
Thanks so much
That is good looking cornbread and I'm sure its delicious too.
I have loved cornbread since my elementary school would serve it with Cheese Enchiladas and chocolate cake for dessert 😁
Good job Kent!
Thanks so much Kevin
I never throw out bacon fat, I have some on hand all the time! I love corn bread!
it is good stuff!
Don't let this city slicker picture fool you under this shirt & tie is a country boy just itching to bust out. Can't wait to try cowboy cornbread, & cowboy stew in my dutch oven. I love to cook and i'll be the hit of the camp with this recipe.
Hope you enjoy
I swear. My ex never got treated as well, as the beagle. Real nice batch of cornbread! The dark, golden color on the bottom told the story. You had to be using a sense of smell there. Thanks for all the vids, but the Cowboys coming into camp, on cold mornings, are the best!
Thanks Mark for taking time to watch
Perfect, perfect cornbread
Thanks Marvin
I like cornbread and milk better than ice cream great video
It is good, my dad had some most every night
Make iron skillet cornbread in the house all the time I like it in cast iron it makes it crispy!
AWESOME COOKING
Thanks
That’s awesome Brother, that’s how it’s done!
Thanks Daryl
My mom preheated the cast iron skillet in the oven with a big helping of hog fat. When it was sizzling, she'd pull the rack out and pour the corn Brad batter in the skillet, push the rack back in and let 'er bake.
Love cornbread honestly....