[Sca-cooks] Period Cooking Styles and Vessels Project
Etain1263 at aol.com
Etain1263 at aol.com
Wed Nov 17 20:04:14 PST 2004
I am a happy recipient of two of Honnoria's cooking pots. Both have been
used successfully (making two period soups) during an outdoor campfire session
with our Cook's Guild here in ACG. Last year at Pennsic, there were a
handfull of us the first week..and it seems that we were all cooks...so we cooked
over the campfire (using cast iron, mostly) every day! One of our guild members
now has a permanent "cooking firepit" (she lined it with lovely rocks...it's
wonderful!) in her yard. We've used it about 4 times in the last year and a
half.
It's big enough for the spit (forged by Master Gille at a demo) on one end.
The grille is set up next to that. There is an open area about 2x4 ft for
the clay vessels and dutch ovens. and another large area to build the fire
and put the tripod over. The base has been laid in another part of the yard for
a bread baking oven. That should get the dutch ovens out of the center
area...and the wimps out of the house using the conventional oven.
We plan on this same arrangement next Pennsic (with perhaps a flowerpot
oven), and would be more than willing to host a get together of cooks to use the
pit and cook and eat! It takes all day btw... We generally started the
fires when we got up, so there would be plenty of coals for the various cooking
methods. I'll be bringing my two pots and the pipkin I got at WOW.
Etain
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