[Sca-cooks] easy period camping meals
Stefan li Rous
StefanliRous at austin.rr.com
Wed Aug 15 17:11:11 PDT 2007
Maire mentioned:
<<< Oddly enough, I've got some authentic-friendly acquaintances who,
despite their decided preferences for medieval foods at feasts and
indoor events, specifically CHOOSE not to cook/serve period food when
camping, because of the ease of cooking more modern things. Out of
cans. <g> I never have gotten my head around that one..... >>>
I can understand both points of view. We often don't eat period items
at camping events, except the feast when one is offered, because of
the time it takes to prepare such a meal and the difficulties of
doing that for just two people.
You might want to consider mentioning to your friends the idea of
cooking some medieval dishes ahead of time and canning them or
freezing them in boiling bags. With the latter, your friends could
have even less cleanup than with cooking modern canned items. :-).
We've discussed both of these topics here before.
canning-msg (44K) 11/ 5/06 Use of canning in the SCA.
Directions.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD/canning-msg.html
bag-cooking-msg (24K) 3/22/03 Using plastic bags to warm pre-
cooked foods
at SCA events.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD/bag-cooking-msg.html
(hmmm. Okay, we've discussed this since then. I guess it's time
to update this file... )
Stefan
Back from Pennsic. Still unpacking and having to spent way too much
time job hunting right now...
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