It’s an old camp oven merely. The camp oven story

1 March 2026

Without a doubt a camp oven is the quintessential piece of bush cooking equipment.

Cathy Savage, Australian Bush Cooking.

The first reference to a camp oven I came across was as one of the items imported by Macqueen, Atkinson, and Pritchett in 1823.[7]  There was no description of it.

In 1896  Cheap Oven For The Bush was published describing making a camp oven out of tin.

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Paul van Reyk
My first essay on food was in Year 10 - people seemed to like it. It took me 56 years to come back to it, so I have a lot of catching up to do. My focus is on Anglo-Saxon settler culinary ways in Australia, roughly from the first days of colonisation to the 1960s - 1970s. I particularly write about stuff that has not been written about before but is very much a part of the Anglo-Saxon Australian table. I hope you enjoy reading as much as I do writing.