[Sca-cooks] Period Cooking Styles and Vessels Project

[Phlip]

Ene bichizh ogsen baina shuu...

>   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

Could you send me pictures of your set up? I'd love to see it, particularly
the spit, and grille. Always looking for ideas, and I'm planning a
coordinated firepit for our camp. The fire ring is OK, but it's too small
for what I'm thinking about, although it was quite adequate when I smoked
the salmon for Andrea's Apprenticing.

Saint Phlip,
CoD

"When in doubt, heat it up and hit it with a hammer."
 Blacksmith's credo.

 If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it is probably not a
cat.

Never a horse that cain't be rode,
And never a rider who cain't be throwed....