Ancient Israelite cuisine aside, and the loaves were baked on the heated surface. People also began placing a convex dome, initially earthenware and later metal, over the pit-oven and cooking the flatbreads on the dome instead of on the ash-covered surface; this type of oven is probably what was meant by the biblical "machabat", often translated as “griddle”. The Persians introduced a clay oven called a tanur (similar to the Indian tandoor), which had an opening at the bottom for the fire, and through which the bread was placed to be baked on the inner wall of the upper chamber from the heat
Dutch Oven Stakes. Dutch Oven was a brown mare with a white strip and two white heels. She was described as a "delicate" filly which had trouble maintaining weight and was subject to great variability in her racing performance. The name "Dutch Oven" resulted from a play on her parents' names and while credited at the time for being "neatly named", the choice was later assessed by historian Laura Thompson to be "possibly the least meaningful name ever given to a classic winner." Dutch Oven was trained by Mathew Dawson at Newmarket. On 5 July at the Newmarket meeting, Dutch Oven ran