Terracotta Cooking Pot

[crafters_corner_2]

Aquired one of these yesterday and wondered if anyone owns one and has a tried and trusted recipe. Google has supplied several, but if anyone has actually used one, should be grateful of a good starting recipe.
I know the pot has to be soaked before use, etc.

[HerMajesty]

Those are new to me! I have no idea, but it will be fun to hear what people come up with, as well as hear about what and how you cook in it! Logical design, as people have used pottery for years. Why do you soak it first???? To keep the moisture inside and outside even, so it doesn't expand in one area and not another??

[NuttyKrafts]

Many, many years ago, I had a chicken 'brick' - similar to your photo except the top was rounded. It cooked a roast chicken to perfection ( until I dropped it)

[crafters_corner_2]

Those are new to me! I have no idea, but it will be fun to hear what people come up with, as well as hear about what and how you cook in it! Logical design, as people have used pottery for years. Why do you soak it first???? To keep the moisture inside and outside even, so it doesn't expand in one area and not another??

Maj, it has to be soaked first and put into a COLD oven so as not to crack the terracotta. It has to be washed in hot water without soap, as everything would taste soapy - not nice.

Onto the cooking: my dil cooks her turkey crown in one every Xmas and reports it far better than over-cooked ones. She is away at the moment so can't ask her. Have sent for a book but always better to have a tried-and-trusted recipe.

[TanteGrete]

I got one as a wedding present (many years ago) but couldn't use it because I cannot touch unglazed pottery. It makes my hair stand on end and gives me goose bumps. Actually just writing about it now has the same effect

[billsstamps]

Aquired one of these yesterday and wondered if anyone owns one and has a tried and trusted recipe. Google has supplied several, but if anyone has actually used one, should be grateful of a good starting recipe.
I know the pot has to be soaked before use, etc.

My mother-in-law used to use one.
She only used it for bird and used lots of water like for pot roast. I can't tell you for sure what herbs she raided from the garden, it was parsley and maybe lovage.

She had a pantry full of thick glazed pottery for storage and cooking because my father-in-law's uncle worked at Denby Pottery.

[buttons-and-bows]

I cooked steak and onions in one, just shoved it in the oven it broke in half and my dinner was all over the floor

[crafters_corner_2]

I cooked steak and onions in one, just shoved it in the oven it broke in half and my dinner was all over the floor

Oh, thanks for that, Buttons, Lol

Probably what I shall do

[buttons-and-bows]

What i meant was i didn't soak it or put it in a cold oven I just heated the oven up to 3.75 and plonked it in.
Mind you I had a casserole dish from asda do that as well and the cheeky sods were just giving mike the money back for the dish, until I presented them with a bill for steak, onions, mushrooms & oxo's.
Maybe i should stay away from the oven

[HerMajesty]

.You gave them a bill for hugs and kisses??????????????????????????? xoxoxo