[Sca-cooks] Baking bread at Pennsic [was OOP: Coleman oven]

[Peters, Rise J.]

I am informed that there will be a baking oven in our camp (Lusty Wench, at
e17) this war.  In past years one member of our camp has baked in a dutch
oven as well (yum, cinnamon bread).

=Cait

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Linda M. Kalb [mailto:lmkalb at mail.med.upenn.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 11:10 AM
> To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
> Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Baking bread at Pennsic [was OOP:
> Coleman oven]
>
>
> The last time I was at Pennsic there was a Viking encampment
> that had built
> a period brick oven they actually baked bread in. They
> dismantled it before
> they left but I hope they build another one at this years' Pennsic.
>
> Who on this list is going to be baking bread at Pennsic?
>
> Is there anyone on this list who is going to be making cheese over the
> campfire (or wherever else) at Pennsic? Or yogurt?
>
> Inga/Linda
>
> At 10:50 AM 7/25/01, you wrote:
> >--
> >[ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ]
> >
> >Some of you folks may remember that I bought a Coleman oven
> last year, and
> >had troubles with it.  (This is a metal box that sits on top
> of a propane
> >stove.)  I couldn't get the thermometer in the door up past
> 375F, but my
> >biscuits scorched on the bottom after the minimum baking time.
> >
> >
> >
> >I brought the oven to the Great Northeastern War, but this
> time I brought a
> >standard oven thermometer to put *inside* the oven.  I
> discovered that the
> >temperature inside is about 100 degrees higher than the door
> thermometer
> >claims.  Armed with this information and some sourdough
> starter, I was able
> >to make a satisfactory loaf of bread.  Triumph!  Now I figure that if
> >I can bake a yeast bread in the thing, I can certainly
> manage other kinds of
> >baked goods.  Cookies! Pies! Empanadas!
> >
> >
> >
> >Damn, I wish I were going to Pennsic this year...
> >
> >
> >
> >Brighid ni Chiarain
> >
> >--- Robin Carroll-Mann
> >
> >--- rcmann4 at earthlink.net
> >
> >.
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