SC - SC- Best food for War

[Bronwynmgn at aol.com]

In a message dated 2/22/2000 5:11:14 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
branneon at crosswinds.net writes:

<< 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 usually bring a bunch of the various sorts of spices used in period - 
cinnamon, nutmeg, saffron, pepper, garlic, relevent dried herbs as well; also 
dried pastas, rice, canned beans (could also use dry, I'm just not as 
familiar with working with them), canned broths, etc.  I usually bring some 
solidly frozen meat to use the first week; ditto fresh vegetables.  After 
that you need to make town runs for fresh food.  With the appropriate spices 
and broths and such, you can make a fair number of period dishes quite 
easily.  Just remember that in most cases you are going to have to haul and 
heat water for clean-up, as well as haul the trash out of camp to the 
dumpster.  How much of that you're willing to do is up to you.  Of course, if 
you are feeding folks, you could make it a condition that *they* do the 
clean-up in return for you cooking.
Last year for the SCA-cooks get-together I looked through my stuff and found 
all the ingredients for Ryse of Flesche Day  (rice cooked in broth and 
seasoned with saffron), so I made it.  This was towards the later end of war, 
too.

Brangwayna Morgan