Dutch Oven Cinnamon Pecan Roll Recipe

Series Summary

The Dutch oven is a very important piece of culinary history. The dutch oven was a sign of Holland's sand casting superiority, and soon British pot makers were copying the techniques of the the dutch casters to make their own dutch ovens, which they called "casserole dishes" for some reason. In America the Dutch oven played an all important role in the history of the west and the cowboy, with every 'cookie' on every cattle trail cooking his grub in a dutch oven. Despite the slanderous practical joke of the same name, the dutch oven has remained a mainstay of cooking since its creation in the 1600's.

In this free video series, our expert Leah Schaefer will teach you how to cook a cinnamon pecan roll & potato au gratin in a dutch oven. She will show you how to cut, roll, butter, and coat the dough, add the sugar, and bake and check the cinnamon for your cinnamon pecan roll. She will also teach you how to make a glaze for the pecan roll and clean the dutch oven. Leah will even teach you how to wash, cube, dice, and chop the potatoes and garlic for potato au gratin, how to make and season a roux, and how to add ham and cheese to your potato au gratin.

Video Transcript

"Hi, this is Leah Schaefer on behalf of Expert Village and today I’m going to show you how to cook with a Dutch oven. So today I’m going to show you how to make a dessert using the Dutch oven inside the house. We’re not going to talk about campfire cooking today, we’re going to talk about using your Dutch oven in the kitchen, which is just a little bit more practical for most people. So the first thing we’re going to talk about is a giant cinnamon pecan ring that is cooked inside the Dutch oven. So I’ll just take you through the ingredients. Of course the first thing you have is a sturdy cast iron Dutch oven, we have some oil that we’re going to use just to grease it, make sure the bread doesn’t stick. We have some milk that we’re going to use for the glaze, we have vanilla, cinnamon sticks for decoration, and then some cinnamon. We have two one pound frozen loaves of bread that have been thawed out, we have brown sugar, butter, pecans, sugar, we have some flour that we’re going to use to roll the bread out with, powered sugar and we’re going to need a sifter to sift it, the powered sugar. "