[Sca-cooks] Fwd: Oven temperature question

[Bill Fisher]

On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 00:59:48 -0500, Stefan li Rous
<stefanlirous at austin.rr.com> wrote:

> Well, I believe that at least one, probably more, build small versions
> (three or four feet in hieght vs. ten) at Pennsic. I think the fact
> that few permanent structures get approval at Pennsic keeps these ovens
> from being really large as they have to be rebuilt each Pennsic.

I keep suggesting they let me put a hot tub in down where I camp in
the corner on Brewer's
but they keep sayin no for some reason.  They keey scratchin their heads at me
when I bring it up.  You think after as many years I have been there (how many
years HAVE I been going to Pennsic, anyway?) they would cave in on this. :-)

> That is a bit far from you, though you could fly there. :-)
> 
> Gulf Wars has at least one such oven in the Early Period Encampment.
> Again, a small oven. But since this is a period oven, it may just take
> a few years, but perhaps it will get replaced by a larger one. Or
> another group may build such an oven.
> 
> Estrella War is much closer to you than the other two, but I don't know
> if folks build ovens out there or not, as I haven't been to that event
> in 14 years or more.

When I was a kid, we were traversing a site along the susquehanna river and we
found a hill that had bricks inside of it.  Decent sized opening too. 
My grandad
told me it was an old bread oven from when they were puttin the susquehanna 
canal in to take the barges up the river.  Most of the workforce was immigrants
(from what I was told) and they got tired of waiting for the bread to
arrive, so they
would periodically tear down an old oven and make a new one when they would
change camps.  Where I grew up was one of the transit places where the river was
deep enough that it was navigable, and so we kept our oven.  

My Dad thought it was a brick kiln, but that would have made it
pre-revolutionary
war then.

Cadoc


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