[Sca-cooks] camp cooking suggestions and tips

[David Friedman]

I think it's worth distinguishing among three different sorts of camp cooking:

1. Feeding people at a camping event, with no particular attempt at period food or cooking--the same things you would do outside of the SCA.

2. Feeding people period food at an SCA camping event. I haven't used the seal-a-meal freezer boiling approach, but I gather it's the easiest way of doing lots of period food without spending lots of time.

3. Cooking period food in a more or less period fashion at an SCA camping event.

All three have their value, but they are different projects--most obviously, your ice cream is appropriate for 1, wildly inappropriate for 2 or 3. I find 3 the most interesting project, but obviously not everyone will choose it.

At Mon, 29 Aug 2011 08:36:54 -0700 (PDT), "Cat ." wrote:
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>Greetings the list
>I had offered to teach a hands-on class on Sugarplate at the final local camping event this weekend, and was asked to teach 'Camp Cooking 101' instead.
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>SOOOO, since I have a week to pull this together (and I can sum up the best bits in one sentence - "get a big pot and borrow or buy a Seal-A-Meal and freeze ahead - great food, easy clean up and you have time to play too"
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>What tips and basic camp cooking information would you think should be shared with any who show up? (and IF I get inspired can someone point me to the home version equipment for make ice cream in camp (the roll it around type, not the not owned crank freezer.)
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>In Curiosity
>Gwen Cat
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