[Sca-cooks] Period Cooking Styles and Vessels Project

[Etain1263 at aol.com]

  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