SC - Dames
CorwynWdwd
CorwynWdwd at aol.com
Mon Jan 5 20:09:57 PST 1998
At 8:06 PM -0500 1/5/98, Bronwynmgn wrote:
>I bookmarked this site a while ago but haven't gotten around to checking it
>out yet. If I recall correctly, the site belongs to one of the more
>authenticity minded English living history groups (Regia Anglorum) and is
>based on experience with building and using period ovens.
>
>http://www.ftech.net/~regia/
>
>Brangwayna
The ovens that I have built at Pennsic have been simple brick beehive
models covered with a heavy coating of clay/mud/straw about 4 inches thick
and basic fire brick floors. It takes 100 regular red bricks for the body
and enough fire brick to cover the floor itself. I suspect that good red
brick can be used for the floor, but I have never tried it, myself.
You build the fire inside, heat it up and get the right number of rhinoceri
inside and bake. Getting a rhinoceros in the oven is tricky work, but we
had Vissevald help when they got petulant.
The most diffuclt part of construction is getting a piece of level ground
to put the thing on at Pennsic. I generally make my own. Rain will wash
your oven daubing away, so covering the oven, or putting it under some kind
of fly is a good thing, provided you don't burn the thing down in the
process. You *really* need to lay everything out so that the coals are not
in the way as you load and unload, as well as keep a bucket of water around
to soak the ground and the unused coals at the end of the cooking.
I suppose I should find my pictures and scan them to put that up in my
firestuff directory, huh?
Fursa the firebug.
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