SC - islinglass crystals!? Am I thinking of the wrong thing?

[Arabella de Montacute]

>
>Cooking without fire.  Instructions for cooking meat without fire.  
>Take a small earthenware pot, with an earthenware lid which must be 
>as wide as the pot;  then take another pot of the same earthenware, 
>with a lid like that of the first;  this pot is to be deeper than the 
>first by five fingers, and wider in circumference by three;  then 
>take pork and hens and cut into fair-sized pieces, and take fine 
>spices and add them, and salt;  take the small pot with the meat in 
>it and place it upright in the large pot;  cover it with the lid and 
>stop it with moist, clayey earth, so that nothing may escape;  then 
>take unslaked lime, and fill the large pot with water, ensuring that 
>no water enters the smaller pot;  let it stand for the time it takes 
>to walk between five and seven leagues, and then open your pots, and 
>you will find your food indeed cooked.
>(Two Anglo-Norman Culinary Collections - this one BL Add 32085 - 
>Hieatt and Jones, Speculum 61/4, 1986)
>
>I think this is pretty amazing.  It's not actually relying on 
>conserving already created heat, as I read it, but on the heat 
>produced by the addition of the lime to the water.  And then, of 
>course, you have lots of limey water to play with afterwards.  The 
>MS, according to Hieatt and Jones, contains nothing later than 
>documents from early in the reign of Edward 1 (1272-1307).

Yeah for limey water!!!!
With the right amounts of animal fat and a few other ingredients for 
smell and texture, You'll have a great batch of SOAP!!!

Arabella

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