SC - Cookout at Egils

[Gerekr at aol.com]

On 3/1/99 10:59 PM you wrote:

>From:	stefan at texas.net (Stefan li Rous)
>Meistari Gerekr mentioned:
>> Ravensgard will be providing a variety of equipment including 
>> cauldrons of various sizes, footed pots, tripod, brazier, portable 
>> hearth, spit, norse frying pans, Dutch ovens, etc.  We may have a pit 
>> fire also.  
>
>Wish I was close enough to see this. I few questions if you don't mind:
>1) What is this portable hearth? I can imagine a big pile of rocks or
>   bricks, but I that wouldn't be very portable.
>2) How does a norse frying pan differ from any other frying pan? Was
>   it really used by the Norse? I was thinking Viking. Maybe you just
>   mean by modern Norse?

Hi Stefan, et. al.

1) Portable hearth - like Bear is building in his back-yard, eh?  A 
bread/bake oven of bricks, finished with plaster or something... on a 
trailer/wagon/cart or some such; the 
build-the-fire-inside,-scrape-it-out-after-the-oven-is-heated type...  I 
also have the file somewhere from the gentle in the West who's been 
researching this... subject came up here last summer, and earlier, I 
think.

2) Norse frying pan.  No, I mean period-- my husband dislikes the term 
"viking" with its horned-helmed-drunk connotations, so we use "Norse" for 
almost everything.

About 5 have been excavated, that we know of.  Color photo p. 142, 
catalog entry #63 in _From Viking to Crusader_ - with measurements.  
Drawings in Treckare (shudder), p. 180.  References in Roesdahl's _Viking 
Denmark_.  

Gerek used the dimensions from the one in Viking/Crusader, says it's the 
most complete, and simplest one he's seen.  Handle 36", 1/2" square 
stock.  "Pan" is an 11" circle of about 16 g. mild steel (educated guess, 
from what we can tell about the excavated ones; also the heaviest gauge 
our Beverly shear will cut); the edge is dished up about 1/4".  Connected 
to the handle with a central rivet.  We don't know if the pan was 
supposed to rotate around the rivet, ours mostly does't, and G says based 
on the size of the rivet-head on the excavated ones, probably not.

We've cooked bacon, sausages and pancakes over a fire in camp, with very 
good results.

3) We'll see how it goes, maybe post pics after the fact next summer, 
8-).  If we do, will notify the list.

Chimene & Gerek
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