SC - Solar Cooking in period????

[Anne-Marie Rousseau]

> From The Goode Huswife's Jewel by Thomas Dawson, 1596:
> To Make Apple Moyse
> 
> Roste your apples, and when they be rosted, pill and straind them into a 
> dish, and pare a dozen of apples and cut them into a chafer, and put in a

> little white wine and a little butter, and let them boil till they be as 
> soft as Pap, and stirre them a little, and straine them to some wardens 
> rosted and pilled and put in some Suger, Synamon, and Ginger, **and make 
> Diamonds of Paste, and lay them in the Sunne**, then scrape a little
Suger 
> uppon them in the dish.

This seems more to me a method of drying the little fruit leather gizmos
than actually cooking htem (which was done earlier on the stove/in the
oven). 

So, DO we have any evidence that medieval Europeans used the sun to cook
their food?

- --Anne-Marie
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