SC - Hauviette's Confits

[Cindy Renfrow]

>In a message dated 10/5/99 3:04:03 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
>macdairi at hotmail.com writes:
>
><< Was it Ras who said he had picture of one of these stoves? >>
>
>IIRC, one of the pictures at Cindy Renfrow's site that are archived on the
>lindah site shows a center room brickwork with what appear to be a series of
>small fireboxes built into it around the walls of the base, overlaying this
>is a flat surface with a pot or 2 sitting on it. If this is not a stove, I
>would be greatly surprised. Certainly there is no need to conjecture a pot
>with fire directly coming into contact with the pot itself if this is a stove
>type construction. And once the surface was heated it would be a simple
>matter to use the fireboxes to keep the surface variously hot depending on
>the type of woods, etc., were maintained in the firebox and the frequency of
>replacing fuel or damping the flames.
>
>Ras

There are several kitchen illustrations there
(http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/food-art/ ).  I think the one you're talking
about is main kitchen.gif  from Scappi.  But as I zoom in I think I can
make out some stylized flames. There are several other illustrations with
stoves, but they also have stylized flames.  This may simply be an artistic
device to show that it's hot.

HTH,


Cindy Renfrow/Sincgiefu
renfrow at skylands.net
Author & Publisher of "Take a Thousand Eggs or More, A Collection of 15th
Century Recipes" and "A Sip Through Time, A Collection of Old Brewing
Recipes"
http://www.thousandeggs.com -- please come visit my new web site!


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