[Sca-cooks] Seasoning a Potjie
Huette von Ahrens
ahrenshav at yahoo.com
Sun Jun 19 13:54:46 PDT 2005
--- Volker Bach <carlton_bach at yahoo.de> wrote:
> Am Sonntag, 19. Juni 2005 05:22 schrieb Stefan li Rous:
>
>
> A friend of mine has a garden plot where I can do it. She also offered me a
> corner of it for a herb garden, so that's promising. AND she is a skilled
> potter. If we can arrange this, I think the best thing would be to have a big
> fire there, season the pot for a few hours while digging the garden, then try
> bake a roast in clay in the embers and use the potjie for a veggie stew and/
> or bread to go with it. Sounds like the perfect way to spend a Saturday.
>
> I'll have to make her something nice in return. Maybe a leather costrel.
>
> Giano
>
Does you friend have her own kiln? If she does, perhaps it would be better to season your
potjie in the kiln. It would get a even heating and a slow cooling off and 500 degrees is
nothing for a kiln to achieve.
Huette
Remember that while money talks, chocolate sings.
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