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

[chirhart_1]

We at sw13 bake bread and make cheese at camp. House blackstar
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peters, Rise J." <rise.peters at spiegelmcd.com>
To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 11:23 AM
Subject: RE: [Sca-cooks] Baking bread at Pennsic [was OOP: Coleman oven]


> 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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