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This reminds me of a very old Hagar the Horrible cartoon, where Hagar asks
Helga, "What's for dinner?" and she pulls a boiling piece of meat out of her
pot, and replies, "Steak".  (This was back in the '70's, mind, and I
couldn't help but think that it showed a pretty good knowledge of Medieval
cooking, actually.  Now I know they DID grill meat sometimes.)
Regards,
Brekke



You know orginally that was posted tongue in cheek as early Viking Recipe
for how to prepare meat.  But in seriousness meat was often cooked over open
flame (Camp Fire) in small peices on the end of a stick or in the case of
small animals (rabbits, fowl etc) the whole carcass on a stick. A camp grill
was difficult thing to tote along while it was possible to have one onboard
ship in the field it is far more likely that they simple spited the meat and
cooked it over open fire.  And after all the meat on a stick over a fire is
probably the oldest method of cooking, difinitely predated cookware. I have
some documentation for this if anyone is really interested.

Elric