[Sca-cooks] peach pit molds, period utensils

[Elaine Koogler]

Can you let me know privately how much you'd charge to make me a dragon like
that one (ekoogler at chesapeake.net)??

thanks!

Kiri

Stephanie Howe wrote:

> There will be more dragons- they're too much fun to sculpt. :)  I'll have at
> least one, maybe more, for next Pennsic.  Or, contact me privately... I do
> commissions.
> Clay frypans:
> I'd suspect they would be used rather like the legged cookpots- over coals
> rather than open flame.  Earlier ones had feet, like pipkins or modern Dutch
> ovens.  Clay does fine with heat provided the gradient of change isn't
> sharp.. would require much greater care and planning than metal, and I'm
> wondering if it's characteristics wouldn't change the expected results, too-
> *can* meat be browned on a clay griddle, for instance?  Are the flattish
> ceramic pan objects with handles identified as such in my archeology books
> really "griddles" or "frypans", or did they serve some other purpose
> altogether? Catch pans for drippings or au jus reduction?  For the most
> part, the little bit of documentary evidence for kitchen equipment I've seen
> doesn't bother to enumerate or really describe the non-metal wares- too
> common, cheap, and likely disposable to trouble making an itemized
> inventory.. just the words "pottery" or "jugs".
> Water storage:
> Yes, earthenware or even immature, unglazed stoneware jugs work great at
> Pennsic to keep water cool by transpiration.  And a tight fitting lid kept
> the ants out, too.  :)  I made one for our camp, being tired of the ugly 5
> gal. Igloo cooler... Not completely successful, aesthetically, but perfectly
> functional.
> I decided to not bother with a bung and spigot, although there's evidence
> for later period (post 14C in England) use of such on large cider/ale jugs:
> not the spigots themselves, but bungholes in larger jugs, called cisterns.
> I got a really nice brass and iron dipper from Magic Badger, and had cool
> water all war, even when the jar was in the full sun.  I did pour molten
> beeswax into the warmed pot to coat the bottom and help prevent table rings,
> but that's it.
>
> Olga
>
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