SC - SC- Best food for War
Elysant at aol.com
Elysant at aol.com
Wed Feb 23 16:25:26 PST 2000
- -Poster: <Elysant at aol.com>
>I was just wondering what the best foods to bring to War were, in everyone's
>opinion. Would dry foods work out best? Did bringing regular food that
>required lots of clean=-up work out well? Any horror stories? Successes?
I think Caer Frig and the Cook's Gathering at Pennsic were both successes as
regards to what range of things can be cooked at camp.
At Caer Frig we had a separate "kitchen" tent which Ras stocked with, amongst
a miriad of other things, over 100 spices, all sorts of his home canned foods
- - and the salamander. :-) Margali brought more spices and stuff, and two
(or was it three)? coolers of meat and shrimp, and there were all sorts of
other contributions from camp members.... We had an assortment of gas stoves
to cook on, plus the firepit with Phlip's ironwork set up she forged....
I know we made all sorts of dishes there, including all the recipes from the
lamb (lamb's brains, and the infamous "Ras's Testicles" dish to name two)
all of which were prepared at the same time on the afternoon of the Cook's
gathering. Badger in the next camp over cooked a haggis successfully, and
Fredrich brought his smoker into camp to prepare his lamb dish IIRC.
A variety of dishes were presented at the Cooks' Gathering too... so it seems
to me that almost anything would work in camp if you have the means to store
the stuff and cook it and, if there's an organized clean up system divided
amongst the camp members, I don't think cleaning up afterwards - even if it's
a large complex meal - should be much of a problem....
I know the Caer Frig "eternal soup pot" got a bit icky at it's end, and that
there were chicken portions that had become a bit (understatement) "ripe" in
one of the coolers by the end of the two weeks, but I can't think off hand of
any real cooking "disasters" happening at Caer Frig... anyone?
Elysant
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