Meat, poultry, and vegetable dishes can be cooked with even heat. To bake biscuits or bread with a Dutch oven, you will want at least two-thirds of the heat on top of the lid, and even then it's wise to lift the oven off the coals after part of the cooking time, to avoid blackening the biscuit bottoms while the tops brown. To preheat a Dutch oven for baking, place the lid upside down on top of some coals scraped to the side of the fire. Then set the pot on top of the lid. When you're ready to cook, lift the pot to one side and lightly grease the bottom.
Place dollops of biscuit dough directly inside.
Use pie tins or bread pans for pies, cakes, or breads. Cover and set over a thin bed of coals. Shovel more coals on top. If you have to use wood that generates poor heat, pile the coals several inches high. Replenish as needed.