[Sca-cooks] ISO resources for history of cast iron cookware

[Susan Lin]

Not a brass cauldron but a bronze one:

http://forums.armourarchive.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=88368

We were looking at getting one a few years ago and then life got in the way
- this site used to have pictures.

Shoshanah



On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 2:44 PM, Anne-Marie Rousseau <dailleurs at liripipe.com
> wrote:

>
> one thing to consider...most of the illustrations of pots in period cannot
> tell us if they were cast iron or
> cast bronze (or even perhaps ceramic or fabricated from sheet). they can
> only tell us what shape they were,
> and sometimes if they were black or not (which my experience says ALL pots
> end up as black on the outside
> after one or two uses over a fire!)
>
> I concur that extant examples are going to be our best way of figuring out
> what they used for sure...
>
> --Anne-Marie
>
>
> On Tue 11/06/14 11:04 , "Terry Decker" t.d.decker at att.net sent:
> > Actually, a museum in Scotland might be one of the best places to look
> for
> > a period cast iron kettle.  IIRC, there was some serious immigration
> between
> > Sweden and Scotland (in both directions) during the religious turmoil of
> > the 16th Century.
> >
> > Bear
> >
> > > And then there was an interesting reference I
> > think in the book below> which has a line drawing of a cast iron kettle
> > or pot dating from the late> medieval period.  I wish I had kept or could
> > find my notes - I seem to> recall that the pot was in a museum in
> > Scotland.>
> > >
> > > Katherine
> >
> >
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