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

[chirhart_1]

sw 13 will be bakeing fresh breads and cooking cheese.   House Blacstar
----- Original Message -----
From: "Linda M. Kalb" <lmkalb at mail.med.upenn.edu>
To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 11:10 AM
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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