[Sca-cooks] Looking for a woodcut

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

On Apr 3, 2007, at 11:28 AM, Michael Gunter wrote:

> A while back I saw a woodcut of a period camp spit setup.
> It basically resembled a sawhorse with the horizontal bar
> having pots hanging from it and then along one side of the
> legs there were hooks which held spits upon which birds
> and sausages were roasting.
>
> I've looked all over and can't find the bloody thing now.
> I'm working with some folk here in Ansteorra on building
> a couple. The design is simple but I would like to find this
> thing to use as a reference. Does anyone have this or
> know where I could find it?

Could this have been from Scappi? I know we've had links to a lot of  
illustrations from his stuff over the past couple of years, and he's  
got a lot of cooking-equipment graphics, including field kitchen  
items...

Adamantius





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