[Sca-cooks] making cheese at events/period cooking thermometers

[johnna holloway]

Two people demonstrated cheesemaking at CooksCon 2. A Cheesemaking
Workshop by Eric Barnes and Robin Monogue is the paper. We had the
cheese to eat later in the day.
The cd with the proceedings is only 15 dollars and can be ordered
from:Mary Morman, 1245 Allegheny Drive,
Colorado Springs, CO 80919. Contact her at << mem at rialto.org>> for
additional details.

As to the other part of the question see:
http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blthermometer.htm
http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/sci/A0848446.html

for the entries on thermometers.

According to Laura Mason who wrote Sugar-plums and Sherbet. The
Prehistory of Sweets thermometers were coming into use in the kitchen
for sweets boiling only after 1800. By 1890 they were hardy and common
enough to be recommended. Early ones apparently broke and weren't
useful.

Johnnae llyn Lewis   Johnna Holloway

"Harris Mark.S-rsve60" wrote:>
> The following question was just asked on the Ansteorra list.

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> If anyone has tried to make cheese at an event, please drop me a line.
> Also, does anyone have documentation for the use of cooking thermometers in period?>
> -Ritter Erasmus
> Ozy Adams [ozyadams at hotmail.com]
>