SC - Re: Period cooking?

[Laura C. Minnick]

Korrin S DaArdain wrote:
> 
> Could someone who knows something about this please answer.
> 
> Thanks,
> Korrin S. DaArdain
> Korrin.DaArdain at Juno.com
> 
> --------- Begin forwarded message ----------
> Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 17:13:44 -0700
> From: Emily SD Thompson <guineth at juno.com>
> Subject: Re: [STEPS] Period cooking?
> 
> Just out of curiousity, gentle and noble cousins --
> 
> I've read (in sources that are less than entirely trustworthy, alas) that
> one way to bake a chicken was to wrap it in leaves, slather the wrapped
> bird with clay or plaster, and bake the whole thing. Since this would, if
> done right, wind up sealing the bird in an airtight covering with all the
> germs dead, it sounded to me as though it would be a good thing to make
> for a traveller's dinner, and convenient -- just crack open the baking
> shell and brush off the particles and dust, unwrap the bird, and eat.
> 
> Does anyone know if this is period? And if it is, has anyone succeeded in
> doing it right?
> 
> Inquiring minds would like to know.
> 
>         Sister Guineth, curious

It looks/sounds like a variation on the Icelandic Chicken. I am not
conviced that Icelandic Chicken was mean to be a clay-baker style dish,
but that doesn't mean that those who wrote the 'untrustworthy' sources
didn't draw that conclusion...

What sources were they, I wonder?

'Lainie