SC - kitchen kits (long)

[Mary Morman]

>>: Why would someone want to camp without a cooler?
>
>1. Because it is a strikingly out of period accessory, hence makes the
>encampment seem less period, and
>
>2. Because it is a nuisance--you have to keep fetching ice, and at some
>inconvenient time it will dump melted water someplace you don't want it.
>
>  I assume that it is in
>>an
>>: effort to recreate a more period style of food preparation.
<snip>
>
>David/Cariadoc
>http://www.best.com/~ddfr/
>

Hello!  There is a type of 'cooler' - a wet inverted clay pot in a clay
saucer - which uses evaporative cooling to keep the contents cold.  Does
anyone know when this was invented?  (There is a reference in Athenaeus to
slaves wetting down large jars of water overnight to produce chilled clear
water - can't find it at the moment...)

Also, how common was it to keep food cold by immersing it in a running
stream, as was done in colonial America?

Cindy/Sincgiefu
renfrow at skylands.net


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