Destiny Survival

            Whether you have cast iron skillets, a waffle iron, or a Dutch oven, you may have questions on properly caring for cast iron cookware.  It has a reputation for lasting many decades and can be passed down from generation to generation.  But what do you do to keep cast iron clean?  Should you use regular dish soap and water?  How do you “season” cast iron?  What do you do if your skillet rusts?

            In the July/August 2009 “Backwoods Home Magazine,” Jackie Clay shares a primer on caring for cast iron cookware.  It’s not difficult.  Jackie has a great deal to share from her personal experience cooking with cast iron.  There are advantages to using cast iron, and you should have some of it in your survival kitchen.  Below is an excerpt of Jackie Clay’s article.

Cast iron

By Jackie Clay

My very favorite cookware is old—some of it very old. It’s nonstick, is equally at home in the kitchen or wilderness camp, is the ultimate slow-cooker, and you can whop a mountain lion on the head with it and kill it. (Okay…maybe that last is a bit of a stretch.) Of course, it’s my cast ironware.

I love it so much that I have a real wide assortment: two small 6-inch fry pans (great for an egg or two), an 8-inch fry pan, a 10-inch fry pan, and a huge 18-inch frying pan that you could certainly frighten a mountain lion with. I also own a Dutch oven, waffle iron, cornbread stick pan, muffin pan, two griddles, and a roaster.

 
Read the whole article here: www.backwoodshome.com/articles2/clay118.html

Excerpt used with permission of Backwoods Home Magazine. www.backwoodshome.com 1-800-835-2418

            An excellent source for skillets, several Dutch ovens, waffle irons, and more, is Lehman’s.  If there’s something you’re looking for in particular, type it in their home page search box to go to a page showing their selection.

If you’ve already got cast iron cookware but could use more info and recipes, get the Cast Iron Cookbook, featuring dozens of old, rare recipes.    You get recipes for an amazing array of meats, biscuits and breads, stews, breakfasts, and more.  There’s plenty of information on cooking with more than just a skillet.  Discover cooking with cast iron Dutch ovens, pie irons, griddles, muffin pans, kettles, deep fryers, woks, and more.  All the secrets of cast iron use and care are revealed in this cookbook.

To order your copy of the Cast Iron Cookbook, click on the Lehman’s logo and type item 211152 in the home page search box.  A picture of the book appears on the page that comes up.  Click on the picture of the book for more info and to add the book to your cart.

            Cast iron skillets and other cookware made it through the days of the American pioneers, and some of it is still being used.  Why shouldn’t you have some in your survival kitchen?  The Cast Iron Cookbook will help you make best use of it.