[Sca-cooks] Period Cooking Styles and Vessels Project
Phlip
phlip at 99main.com
Wed Nov 17 20:49:53 PST 2004
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....
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