SC - Casserole coals
Charles McCathieNevile
charlesn at sunrise.srl.rmit.edu.au
Wed Dec 17 21:18:59 PST 1997
Or you could have an ordinary lid (or an iron plate. Put it on, upside
down, and presto. (There are a number of el-cheapo dutch ovens about that
work like this)
Charles Ragnar
On Wed, 17 Dec 1997, Elise Fleming wrote:
> Someone wrote:
>
> > << setting
> > >fire on top. >>
>
> Ras asked:
> > Could this be referring to a covered casserole that is placed in the
> >fire and the coals are piled over the top?
>
> Adamantius said:
> >Could be. Alternately (and this is my own personal interpretation) you
> >could use the old fireplace-shovel, or equivalent, run across the top
> >of the dish, with the coals in that. One of the things that leads me
> >to question the Dutch-oven concept is simply the fact that I haven't
> >seen anything like a casserole with a flanged cover among the various
> >drawings, etc., of Islamic cooking utensils.
>
> This technique, however, is used periodically in the Moorish
> (Andalusian) recipes in Cariadoc's Collection. If memory serves, the
> pot's lid was placed on top and coals were put on top of that. It
> would sort of presume a flat lid, although one could probably use a
> tripod arrangement with the pot below and a flat "plate" above, on the
> tripod, with coals on the "plate".
>
> Alys Katharine, wishing for a photographic memory
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