SC - war food

[Mordonna22 at aol.com]

In a message dated 5/23/99 10:35:29 AM US Mountain Standard Time, 
redbear at hollinet.com writes:

<< 
 This is Branwen here - and I am contemplating ways to make my camp cooking 
more period. >>

I try to precook things like chicken stock and beef stock and freeze in 
zip-loc baggies.  I've even been known to pre-cook an entire dish or two and 
freeze them.  Things I don't pre-cook are veggies, meats to be roasted over 
the fire, losyns or other pasta type things.  Nothing that will get soggy or 
change flavor when frozen, nothing including onions, since onions change 
flavor rather noticibly when frozen. 

I also try to choose a menu that consists of easily stored foods.  I am lucky 
in living in the same Barony as my major wars, and to have members of my 
Household who don't come until Saturday.  They can always be depended upon to 
bring the meat to be roasted for the Saturday night feast, so storing it is 
not a worry.  

Now that I am not going to be camping with that large household, I am going 
to have to change some things.  

Cariadoc has some excellent advice in his Miscellany about  camping without 
an ice chest.  He and his Lady have been going to War since the Society was 
in its infancy, so his experience is vast.  I find the information in this 
book has been invaluable since I bought it, so much so that I have begun 
giving it as a gift to others.

One thing that is essential out here in the desert is some sort of beverage 
high in electrolytes.  Sekanjabin and the other syrups serve this need 
commendably.  They can be prepared ahead of time, stored in condensed form, 
and diluted onsite.  And to me they taste sooooo much better than any of the 
commercial "sports drinks"

Mordonna
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