camp oven

noun

Australian and NZ a metal pot or box with a heavy lid, used for baking over an open fire

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You may have read the word "simmer" in a recipe or two, but what does it really mean?

To cook in water that begins cold and then reaches a boil.

To stew in a sauce for a long time.

To cook in water, just below boiling temperature.

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Words nearby camp oven

Campo Grande, camporee, Campos, campo santo, campout, camp oven, Camp Pendleton, camp pie, camp robber, campshed, camp shirt

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Example sentences from the Web for camp oven

She don't look as if she'd been used to cook in a slab fireplace, or lift the lid off a camp-oven.'
Nevermore|Rolf Boldrewood
Up at the hut the table was set as on the first day I saw it, and breakfast in the camp-oven by the fire.
On the Track|Henry Lawson
I'd have made you a damper, only I never could strike a camp-oven; it's been trouble enough to raise the plant I've got.
My Lord Duke|E. W. Hornung
He found the fried bacon and steak between two plates in the camp-oven.
While the Billy Boils|Henry Lawson

There was a camp-oven with a leg of mutton and potatoes sizzling in it on the hearth, and billies hanging over the fire.
On the Track|Henry Lawson

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