[Sca-cooks] Sca-cooks Digest, Vol 71, Issue 16

[otsisto]

What is your question? Are you asking if the "steins" in the water are there
to keep cool? This was a common method to chill liquids. I have seen this
method used by "Italians" though the vessels are different or slightly
different in shape. I have seen this method used with a tub (can't remember
the illumination or the painting)for indoor.


-----Original Message-----
gentle folk

in a bit of crossover between my discipline and yours...i found an
illuminated page from Gaston Phoebus' Livre de Chasse that shows a dinner
service being done, and the interesting thing that i'd like to share with
you is the vessels in the water... considering that Gaston lived in Foix
near the Alps, --period refrigeration???!

http://www.themorgan.org/collections/swf/pageEnlarge.asp?id=823

enjoy

Iohannes