[Sca-cooks] Period cooking and camping

[AnnaMarie]

> At Pennsic, we only cook period things with period technology. No
> cooler.

How do you keep cheese?  Do you make fresh bread each day? We are actually
planning on doing this since we are going to use mostly flatbread recipes.
Modern yeast this year, yeast from Sourdo International next year!

>We do use cast iron pans, which are at best late period.

What type?  Dutch oven? or more period?

> we start our fire with matches not flint and steel, since neither of
> us has gotten good enough with the latter.

We are planning on bringing matches but one of us is also a Mountain Man and
has promised to show us how to make fire!!!

> On the other hand, we also eat some of our meals at the food court,
> where neither recipes nor technology is period. Our usual policy is
> to cook one or two period dinners for the whole encampment, other
> than that go mostly on period things that don't require
> cooking--fruit, cheese, bread and the like--plus food court. And, of
> course, guesting with other people in the encampment when they do
> their period dinners.

Hmmm.... if I can wean the fighters from eggs and sausage for breakfast
we'll be two meals a day period....  what kinds of things do you do for
lunch?

> The Caliph Muawiya ate dinner leftovers for breakfast, so I don't see
> why I shouldn't.

Do you deliberately cook enough to make sure there are leftovers?

Thank you for your time!

Kristianne
Wolf Song Day Spa & Herb Shop