SC - Solar Cooking in period????

[ulrica]

Extremely interesting question.  Of course down here in Texas, we can fry
eggs on the sidewalk by the beginning of June.  You would have to look at
what the average temp was at the time.  Did it get hot enough during the day
to do it?  Or, is this just a high summer dish?  Lots of interesting
thoughts....Ulrica

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From: L Herr-Gelatt and J R Gelatt <liontamr at ptd.net>
To: sca-cooks at Ansteorra.ORG <sca-cooks at Ansteorra.ORG>
Date: Thursday, March 26, 1998 7:34 AM
Subject: SC - Solar Cooking in period????


>Hi Folks!
>
>No, I have not lost my gourd: It's a serious question. Are there any
>references to solar cooking in period? I ran across the following, which
>quite clearly states that the SUN was to do the drying/cooking of the dough
>(btw this is one of my favorite dishes, and my kids request leftovers in
the
>lunch box the next day. I read it with fresh eyes yesterday and was struck
>by the solar cooking bit. Redaction is available if you really want it.):
>
>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 raises all sorts of interesting WAR COOKING questions. Unfortunately,
I
>still have snow in front of my house and a cloudy forecast for the next few
>days. Has anyone tried cooking the pastry this way? Can anyone in a warm
>climate try it? I think the dough will have to be rolled VERY thin in order
>for it to work in a timely fashion. Do we need shiny baking sheets or
>dark-coated ones? I am fairly sure that solar ovens (which would do the
>baking in about 20 minutes, regardless of climate)are a modern
invention...I
>was researching them for a child at the library last month. How would this
>differ from results in a normal oven (puffing, browning, etc).
>
>Curiosity killed the cat, etc....
>
>Aoife
>
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