[Sca-cooks] Question about Camp Food - One-Hide Meals

[Susan Fox-Davis]

Well well well, look who snuck on-list.  Bera here is my best "bad influence"
when she's down south in Caid-land.

Speaking of this, Wiat The Odd [whom I should introduce to Olwen some day] is
trying to get me to run a feast out at a still-under-construction park out his
direction, in Chino I think, and get my meats at a we-kill-it-you-grill-it farm
nearby.  Bet I could get the hide for the purpose!  There's also something in the
Irish corpus about cooking pits, kalua piggy anybody?

Selene Colfox

SableSwanHerald at aol.com wrote:

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> Hello all -
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> On a tangent to the meat and vegetables in a pot, then oatmeal in the broth,
> in a book on food anthropology I read of a true "ancient Irish dish" wherein
> a cow would be slaughtered, the meat hewn into chunks and then placed in the
> hide, milk added to fill and cover, the entirety sewn shut and hung over the
> fire to boil.
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> Never seen anyone do that at an event.  :-)  That's the one I always suggest
> when approached for "traditional Irish fare" (by which folks are generally
> thinking Irish soda bread).  This one was documented by mention in chronicles
> - I do not know what archaeological evidence has been uncovered.
>
> Berengaria
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