SC - Period cookery recipes

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Breads, of course, small cakes that fit the "cookie" category.  I don't
know what else...roasts of some sort maybe?
(hmmm, pizza--yeah I know, non-period)
- --Maire

Cathy Harding wrote:
> 
> ... If you had access to one of those large ovens there the therml mass of
> the oven was the heat source for baking (please understand that I am a bear
> of little brain today, as it is the first day I worked a full day since
> Carpal tunnel surgery.  So I am rambling or unclear, blame that....)
> 
>   I am talking about the ones where you build a fire in the oven and then
> when the oven walls are up to temperature you clean out the fire. Anyway we
> started thinking about some of the recipes which tell you to put a dish in,
> after first the bread baked, then x kind of dish and them y kind of dish.
> (don't have any recipes at hand right now)
> 
> The bakery down the road from Bill's house has one of these and they are
> amenable to letting us try it out sometime for a small fee.  (they are also
> sponsoring a class on building them, Cost $100 per person, to be scheduled
> when 10 people, min. signup).
> 
> This question arose the other night as we sat around feeding the fire in the
> oven, playing music and watching the sun go down over mud bay, washington.
> I came home with some of the bread they later baked. yummmm.
> 
> So, what would you do if you had one of these to play with?
> 
> Maeve
> 
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