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Main Forums => The Mess Hall => Topic started by: Ben on March 17, 2018, 03:24:25 PM
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It's cowboy cookin'! :)
https://youtu.be/wqYzJLrECuU
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Cowboys had ovens?
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I am not at all certain I need to have newspaper inks and newsprint chemicals in my biscuit dough.
PS: I am just now reading a fascinating history of paper, so the concept of what goes into paper and what is printed on it, is foremost in my mind.
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Newsprint ink these days is soy-based and is pretty much non-toxic.
40 years ago many of the inks were lead based.
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Cowboys had ovens?
Dutch ovens.
The newspaper could be replaced with flour sacks or whatever material the cowboys had at hand.
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Best thing I've ever found for rolling out dough is a piece of finely woven linen or cotton cloth (a section old sheet works nicely) and liberally floured.
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I can be as much as a germaphobe as the next guy, but are even a hundred batches of biscuits made on newsprint worse than say, smoking a single cigar? Or eating stuff prepared an an improperly cleaned cutting board?
That said, I wouldn't use newspaper in the kitchen, only because I find it not that burdensome to just flour a wood cutting board or breadboard (or grab some parchment paper) and do the dough there. It's like two minutes of cleanup afterwards. I wouldn't hesitate to use the newspaper for outside or camp cooking though.
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I think a flexible cutting board would be great for making those on and I need to try some in the Dutch oven next time the girl and I go camping.