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

[Olwen the Odd]

Where's Chino and when will this take place?  I may just have to show up for
this one.  But promise you won't run me out of the kitchen!
Olwen

>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:
>
> > --
> > [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ]
> > Hello all -
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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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