[Sca-cooks] Pennsic Bread Baking

[George & Lynn Dimock]

Please pardon the band width,  but I was wondering if anyone on the list
would be interested in assisting me with a little project.

I am interested in recreating the bread baked by the Egyptians during the
time of Moses.  According to contemporary sources, the dough was baked in
covered clay pots.  A potter friend of mine made me some pots. I recently
received a shipment of sourdough yeast from Giza, Egypt, and I picked up
some flour which is alleged to have been made from wheat grown from seeds
found in King Tutenkamun's tomb.

I plan on baking the bread at Pennsic.  If all goes well, and it is accepted
by the editors, these experiments will form the basis for a future article
in Tournaments Illuminated.

One of the projected "baking days" is August 14.  That way, if it is edible,
I can send a loaf to the Potluck Supper for everyone's critique.

Clann O'Choda has graciously permitted my family and I to camp with them.
Therefore, if you are interested in participating in this experiment, I
invite you to please stop by the O'Choda encampment.  By then I should know
a bit more about when we will be baking this type of bread.

I understand O'Choda has its tradional site near the solar showers.

Pierre Vianney, le Boulanger de Grenoble