[Sca-cooks] Pennsic Camp Cooking
Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius
adamantius1 at verizon.net
Mon Aug 11 20:42:07 PDT 2008
On Aug 11, 2008, at 10:45 PM, David Friedman wrote:
> I also made oatcakes another night. That's something I had been
> planning to do at Pennsic for years. They are about the simplest
> possible bread-like plausibly period thing, requiring only coarse
> ground oats, salt, water, a fire and a frying pan. Not the world's
> tastiest dish, but not bad.
They're much better if, after "baking" in the pan, they are toasted/
dried in front of the fire to a cracker-like consistency. Northern
English housewives were hanging them on the clothes line in front of
the fireplace up to the 1940's or so, if an old PPC article on
oatcakes is to be believed. They can be sort of limp and soggy if you
eat them right away, but if you make a lot of them in advance and let
them dry, they have an interesting dog-biscuit matzoh flavor (which is
a lot better than I'm making it sound). It's probably also consistent
with a lot of old Scandinavian flatbread practice, which may or may
not sway Moorish thinking ;-).
Adamantius
"Most men worry about their own bellies, and other people's souls,
when we all ought to worry about our own souls, and other people's
bellies."
-- Rabbi Israel Salanter
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