SC - Turkish Breakfast - Suggestions Anyone?

[Bonne of Traquair]

><< The bread, of course, had soot and such on the bottom crust, which would
>be
>  perfectly okay for period, >>
>
>The bottoms of the ovens would have been cleaned out with a brush used for
>that purpose, most likely. I doubt that soot and embers all over the bread
>would have been any more 'perfectly okay for period' than it would be OK 
>for
>the Current middle ages. What lead you to that conclusion?
>
>Ras

Well, it was a forwarded post, so I wasn't led to that conclusion!  When 
requesting permission to forward, I pointed out to the potter who had done 
the experiment that the oven would have been swept, and explained that I'd 
seen the single chamber oven at Old Salem, NC scraped with a tool like an 
angled bar at the end of a rod then swabbed out with a fairly stiff broom 
made of corn husks. She said that one of the others on the project had 
attempted a quick swipe with a whisk broom, but the oven was too hot for 
that plan to work well!

I hope the oven experiment itself was of interest, but I'm not surprised 
discussion of it was distracted by discussing an uniformed cooking 
statement!

Is any Cook going to Lillies next year that could meet up with this potter 
and work with her?


Bonne




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