[Sca-cooks] How to keep picnic foods fresh

[Stefan li Rous]

Phillipa asked:
> And is there a special file in the florigium that deals with
> long term food packing. (I would be dealing with a Coleman cooler , some blue
> ice packs and the back seat of a car.

I'm not sure if there is any single file in the Florilegium that
covers this subject. There are a number of files that deal with
various methods of preserving foods but you said "fresh" food. Still,
here are the files that I would look in:
canning-msg       (29K)  6/ 6/01    Use of canning in the SCA. Directions.
drying-foods-msg  (45K)  1/12/01    Drying foods in period and for the SCA.
eggs-msg         (125K)  7/26/00    Egg storage. Recipes. Substitutions.
food-storage-msg  (85K)  6/ 8/00    Storing and preserving food in
period. Non-
                                      refrigerated food for camping and Pennsic.
Lrds-Salt-Exp-art (15K)  9/11/00    "Lord's Salt Experiment" by Lady
Hauviette
                                       d'Anjou.
potted-foods-msg  (13K)  5/ 9/01    Cooked foods put in pots and sealed
w. fat.
Preservng-CMA-art (32K)  1/24/01    "Preserving Foods in the Current
Middle
                                       Ages" by Hauviette d'Anjou.

--
THLord  Stefan li Rous    Barony of Bryn Gwlad    Kingdom of Ansteorra
Mark S. Harris             Austin, Texas         stefan at texas.net
**** See Stefan's Florilegium files at:  http://www.florilegium.org ****