[Sca-cooks] clockwork rotisserie

[johnna holloway]

Actually there is quite a bit available on these if you look.

It's scattered among entries and books on fireplaces, metalwork,
 ironwork, clocks, engineering, technology, etc.
General sources include-
Yarwood, Doreen. The British kitchen : housewifery since Roman times /
Doreen Yarwood. London : Batsford, 1981.
Feild, Rachael.Irons in the fire : a history of cooking equipment /
Rachael Feild.Ramsbury, Marlborough, Wiltshire : Crowood Press, 1984.

A Contact person would be Alice Ross who writes a column
for the Journal of antiques. Online see--
http://www.journalofantiques.com/hearthapr01.htm

There have been articles in Early American Life/Homes or
EAL regarding their use on American or Colonial fireplaces.
Almost any recreated colonial working kitchen in  various
historic houses and parks have at least one. (Although at times
I have noticed that more than  one of these is for show only.
They were incorrectly strung and wouldn't allow the spit to turn
if actually put to use.)

Johnnae llyn Lewis  Johnna Holloway

"Cindy M. Renfrow" wrote:>
> Hi. I was recently at Fortress of Louisbourg in Nova Scotia, Canada.
> snipped
>  In the governor's mansion, in the kitchen, is a recreation of a clockwork
> rotisserie.  In the "how we did it" display, in another part of the
> building, is the name of the metalsmith & photos of the process.
> Cindy
>
> >Does anybody have any information on how to build an old clockwork
> >rotisserie.  Drawings, pictures, anything.
> >> >Thanks
> >Connie.Aman at sait.ab.ca