Baking without an oven

We had a two-burner propane stove in our houses when we were volunteers. Our stove was cool in that one of the burners turned to the side making the space below it work as a toaster or broiler. We put it on the counter top that was covered with a layer of dirt so that you could build a small charcoal fire there to cook with. They called this a "dirty kitchen". Some people also had a dirty kitchen outside. Our neighbor had a modern oven and I think that this is where we made the cookies one Christmas when we were give some "Care" flour. We made 7 batches of sugar cookies and threw a party for all the neighborhood kids with them.
We bought a box oven. It was a tin box with a door (glass in the door even). You set the box on top of the burner and it functioned as an oven. We baked bread and roasted a chicken in it. We just put the chicken into a bread pan to roast. There was a thermometer on the door. It worked really well for making bread.
Nang Tita (our Filipino mama) made bibingka (sticky rice cake) in her outside dirty kitchen. She spread the sweet rice cake into a cake pan. Then she put a piece of metal on top of the pan and put some charcoal on that, creating a sort of "Dutch oven". It worked pretty well.
Most of the time we just made meals that we cooked on top of the stove.

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