Dutch Oven Recipes Cowboys Survived On - Ask a Prepper

Being a cowboy in the Old West was a hard life, with few luxuries. A cattle drive could easily take cowboys out on the trail for a month or more, and even on the ranch they often lived in pretty basic conditions – bunkhouses with crude cooking facilities were the norm. Because they worked long days of hard physical labor in all weathers, they needed a lot of food to keep them going. And, because of that lack of luxuries, good food was important for morale. The problem was that, whether on the ranch or the trail, they didn’t have a lot to cook with. Luckily they had a secret weapon that let them prepare a wide range of tasty meals even over a simple campfire. In movies we usually see cowboys with a coffee pot and a skillet, and those were important to them, but the real heart of cowboy cooking was the Dutch oven. A Dutch oven is a heavy item, but while cowboys couldn’t take a lot of personal belongings on a cattle drive – most of their personal belongings had to be carried on their horse …