February 19, 2010

With the state legislature’s passage of Act 476 of 2001, the Dutch oven became the state’s Official State Historic Cooking Vessel. The oven was brought to Arkansas in early territorial days and, by the mid-1800s, was in widespread use. Expert John Ragsdale demonstrates Dutch oven cooking at Scott (Pulaski County) in 2000.

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