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Title: This Ain't Rocket Surgery!
Post by: Ben on March 17, 2018, 03:24:25 PM
It's cowboy cookin'! :)

https://youtu.be/wqYzJLrECuU
Title: Re: This Ain't Rocket Surgery!
Post by: Hawkmoon on March 18, 2018, 10:14:53 PM
Cowboys had ovens?
Title: Re: This Ain't Rocket Surgery!
Post by: MillCreek on March 18, 2018, 11:20:52 PM
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.
Title: Re: This Ain't Rocket Surgery!
Post by: K Frame on March 19, 2018, 06:54:48 AM
Newsprint ink these days is soy-based and is pretty much non-toxic.

40 years ago many of the inks were lead based.
Title: Re: This Ain't Rocket Surgery!
Post by: Fly320s on March 19, 2018, 06:55:24 AM
Cowboys had ovens?

Dutch ovens.

The newspaper could be replaced with flour sacks or whatever material the cowboys had at hand.
Title: Re: This Ain't Rocket Surgery!
Post by: K Frame on March 19, 2018, 07:04:27 AM
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.
Title: Re: This Ain't Rocket Surgery!
Post by: Ben on March 19, 2018, 09:22:58 AM
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.
Title: Re: This Ain't Rocket Surgery!
Post by: Jim147 on March 21, 2018, 09:28:38 AM
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.