Peanutgallery used to make cobbler in a dutch oven with coals on the top at our shoots and folks raved about it..
Musta been excellent it was always gone when I got there LOL
SNARF it’s gone!
One of the tricks is to get the dutch oven hot but not burning hot. Then put just three or four coals on top while it is sitting just above a bed of coals with some air space between them. It’s an oven not a foundry — we’re not trying to make bricks — I used to tell my Scouts.
One of the really interesting things about the videos on historic cooking is the techniques that were used, and the flavor that we’ve lost as the years have rolled along, since we’ve given up techniques like spit-roasting, baking in a wood-fired oven, campfire coal-cooking, etc.
Another interesting video that I found was this one, where historians attempt to re-create a Tudor feast. The amount of sheer physical work involved is amazing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azCGi_a4b-k