[Sca-cooks] Casbah! Feast, was Period Couscous References?

[david friedman]

>David/Cariadoc wrote:
>>Sir Nathan in Calontir used to provide period food for the Calontiri
>>royalty at Pennsic by a version of this approach. I believe he used a
>>seal-a-meal or something similar, with bags that could be boiled. He
>>also used a high quality cooler. The cooler was paced with bags of
>>frozen food. For each meal, he pulled out the required bags and
>>dumped them, still sealed, in a pot of boiling water.
>
>Yes, Fabian is considering buying a Seal-A-Meal set up. The plastic
>used for this can withstand both freezing and boiling and, i think,
>microwaving, and the bags are heat sealed so they're less likely to
>pop open. So this is safer in several ways than using zip-shut
>plastic bags.
>
>He has a household and is thinking how convenient this would be for
>feeding the household at events - cook the food *well* ahead of time,
>freeze it, and pull out and pop it in the cooler for an event, then
>heat up the water and drop it in.

I think it is a convenient system, assuming you are careful to choose
dishes that will survive the process unharmed. On the other hand, it
eliminates the fun of actually doing medieval cooking with medieval
technology, over a fire.
--
David/Cariadoc
http://www.daviddfriedman.com/