[Sca-cooks] Pennsic on a shoestring

[Saint Phlip]

On 6/3/06, Sharon Gordon <gordonse at one.net> wrote:
>
>  I was talking with a couple of people going to Pennsic this year who are
> on a really tight budget.  They asked me if they cooked all their food in
> camp and brought food and firewood from home, if they could eat for $10 each
> per week.  I told them I doubted it, but I thought they could do it for $15
> each if they could get access to water filtered at Pennsic and didn't have
> to buy bottled water.  That's assuming they got all their food on sale and
> only used their cooler for the first day or two with ice brought from home.
>

They can get access to filtered water, but it will require a bit of hiking,
if they're planning on camping as single. The spigot by Chirurgeon's Point
is filtered, deliberately, so people get the water they need, but the center
of Pennsic is quite a ways away from where most single campers camp, at
least any that get there after the first couple of days.

Our camp fees are $20, to cover just firewood, propane, and minor stuff.
Even $15 will be awfully tight. I will, however, make an offer to feed them
one day during War, if you get me in contact with them. I wish we could
afford to hire them as scullery, as we've done in the past for people with
tight budgets, but the money just isn't there this year.

Rob says discuss it with them. We can fit them into our camp, if they
pre-reg- we'll waive camp fee. At least that will get them close to Point,
if they need to make water runs, and with people to help them acclimatize to
Pennsic. Tell them not to worry about firewood- we have that scoped, with a
vengeance ;-)


>
> They would like to stick to pre 1600s ingredients and medievalish style
> dishes even though that would mean doing without potatoes which would
> otherwise be a big help in unrefrigerated frugality and camp cooking.
>
> They have a dehydrator.  They know how to make bread, and I could pass
> along some sourdough starter for them to take and to experiment with before
> they go.  I've got plenty of fresh herbs in the garden which I could share
> and they could dry.
>
> Foods that are frugal here when on sale include
> Lentils
> Dried peas
> Whole chicken
> Eggs
> Carrots
> Cabbage
> Onions
> Flour
> Sugar
> Cucumbers
> Apples
> Grapes
> Raisins
> Oranges
> Lemons
> Pasta
> Tuna
>
> Is there a place around Pennsic that has chicken for under .60 a pound or
> fish for 1.00 or less a pound?  If not they could have chicken just the
> first two days by bringing it frozen from home unless someone else had room
> to bring another one up midweek.
>

There is, but you hafta buy 50 lbs of it. But, if they're with us, we can
give them some room in our freezer.



> Are there any pick your own farms in the area?  So far I have only come
> across farm stands with fairly high prices near Pennsic.
>
> What things would be good to make?  So far I've thought of
> Cold sage chicken made at home and frozen
>   (I don't have the recipe for that  to pass along though.)
> Bread and fruit
> Omlettes with onions and herbs
> Raisin bread
>
> What else would be good?
>
> Sharon
> gordonse at one.net
>
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