SC - haybox cookery?

[Philip & Susan Troy]

Charles McCN wrote:
> 
> In a couple of Anglo Norman culinary collections (or something like that)
> by Constance Hieatt and Robin Jones, _Speculum_ v61 (1986) #4, pp 859-882
> there is a technique given for cooking without fire. It involves a double
> boiler arrangement and lime, and is said to take a few hours. If that is
> the sort of thing you had in mind I could dig out the article tonight (It
> is an Anglo-norman primary source, preseted as an edited text as well as
> a translation, and dates to around 1300.

Well. I'm interested! Unfortunately, I have trouble enough keeping up
with the books related to this field, that the periodicals often slip
by.
 
> Charles
> (Who really expects someone to beat him to the draw(er))

Sorry, you mentioned it first. Seems you're for it, my lad ;  )

Adamantius
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