Northern Foods was Re: SV: SC - Introducing Myself

[Alderton, Philippa]

Bonne asks:

>I also wondered why on earth these people, who obviously had a fire burning
on the hearth every day of the winter, went to such extremes to bake all
their bread at once in the fall and subsist on staler and staler bread as
the year passed by.

Bear would be the one to verify this, but my limited experience has shown me
that a bread baking fire would be different from a heating fire from a
forging fire. A bread baking fire needs a lot of fuel, as it would be done
at that time, to heat a limited area evenly from within. A heating fire
needs to reflect the heat out to the surrounding area. A forging fire needs
a small area of intense heat.

Firemaking/using is an art, which needs to be modified according to usage-
would you set off a forest fire to bake your pottery? I think not ;-)

Phlip

Nolo disputare, volo somniare et contendere, et iterum somniare.

phlip at morganco.net

Philippa Farrour
Caer Frig
Southeastern Ohio

The World's Need

So many Gods, so many creeds,
So many paths that wind and wind,
When just the art of being kind
Is all this sad world needs.

- - Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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