SC - OVENS...OVENS...OVENS...OVENS...

[Groulx, Michelle]

Bear said...
I certainly will.  I have a trailer body on which I am planning to build a
field oven, creating a more modern version of a field oven I have seen
depicted in a 15th Century painting.  I'm thinking of plastering the
exterior (like a horno) to produce a relatively waterproof oven.  With a
couple cords of aged pecan in the back yard, I should have a fun time.

It certainly sounds like you will have a good time. Could you by any chance
direct me to that 15th c. painting? 

And the you said...
Check out Elizabeth David's English Bread and Yeast Cookery.  It has a
photograph and some comments about the Welsh using kettles supported on a
metal stand for baking in between oven days.  The more modern version looks
like a dutch oven on stilts, but I bet you can bake bread in a round bottom
kettle just as easily.  I'll also bet you don't need the board to bake a 2
to 4 pound cottage loaf.

How can I get the Cariadoc catalogue of books to purchase?

And so you encouraged....
Public or private, I want to hear it.

It would be amazingly appreciated by myself, if you could either post
privately or publicly, the ovens that were prevalent in the middle ages. or
even some direction as to reference material that I could have a look at.


And you concluded with...
I don't know about Micaylah, but I don't expect a large crowd of sidewalk
superintendents.  I'm building my oven in the backyard in my own sweet time.
It might be fun to open it for business at the OU Medieval Fair in Norman,
OK, next spring.  But I am a lazy soul at heart, and I've just come off of a
week of hard labor.

I fully expect that I will have a large audience for this endeavour. It will
not only include the building of an oven, but the assemblage of a usable
field kitchen right on site, to possibly be a permanent thingy (haven't
explored this concept yet). I just figured that research on the oven was a
good place to start.

Thanks Bear
Micaylah
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