SC - Keeping Cool

[Daniel Phelps]

>> CBlackwill at aol.com writes:
>> << One quick question:  Does anyone on the list have any references to
how
>>  medieval cooks kept things cold, since the invention of the refrigerator
was
>>  not to come about for many, many, many years?   >>


Actually evaporative cooling as used in arid regions has a very long
history.   This is the process of allowing evaporation to cool unfired clay
jugs of water, water bags that were covered with a dampened cloth or which
were of a canvas which allowed a small amount of fluid to sweat through
them.  Additionally use was made of naturally cool waters flowing from
springs and streams flowing out of glaciers and snow fields.

Daniel Raoul