SC - Outdoor Baking (was seeking recipes)

[Balldrich BallBarian BoulderBain]

	Dear Hon.Lady
	I am interested in the citation!  When, Vol., Issue, Date anything will be
fine!
	Balldrich

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> From: THLRenata at aol.com
> To: sca-cooks at Ansteorra.ORG
> Subject: SC - Outdoor Baking (was seeking recipes)
> Date: June 22, 1998 8:48 AM
> 
> Bonne says:
> 
> >>I come up with: a very large terra cotta pot instead of the metal bowl
on
> top, on the bottom, placing coals in a shallow terra cotta dish slightly
> smaller in diameter than the metal griddle, and deep enough that the rim
of
> the dish keeps the griddle from direct contact with the coals. The
shallow
> dish sitting amoungst more coals.<<
> 
> A few years ago National Geographic re-created an ancient Egyptian bakery
> which had been excavated near the pyramids at Giza. They had a local
potter
> throw some baking pots for them -- pots which looked almost exactly what
Bonne
> describes above. 
> 
> To bake, they put a lump of dough in the bottom, shallow dish and put the
big
> cone shaped top on, then it was placed directly into the fire. It made
huge
> loaves, but when you're feeding 20,000 or so pyramid builders daily,
that's
> what you need.
> 
> They recreated the type of bread the Egyptian might have baked -- they
found
> someone who sold ancient varieties of wheat and cultavated their yeast on
a
> Cairo hotel balcony (not something I'd do in modern Cairo, where the air
> quality -- I'm told -- is not so good.)
> 
> It's an interesting article. I have it photocopied, so if anyone wants
it, e-
> mail me privately and I'll sned it to you.
> 
> Renata
>
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