[Sca-cooks] period cooling of drinks

[Stefan li Rous]

Iohannes offered:
<<< 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  >>>

Thanks for sending this.

We've discussed this a little bit before, but I don't remember any  
graphical evidence of using creeks for cooling. Probably good source  
for info on "picnic feasts" or "garden feasts" as well.

For some previous discussions on this and similar topics such as ice  
houses and iced drinks and desserts:
p-cold-treats-msg (18K)  5/13/08  Period cold or frozen foods eaten in  
period.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD/p-cold-treats-msg.html

Of course most of this wasn't common. Here another file on unusual  
period ways of heating foods:
no-fire-cook-msg  (14K)  6/ 9/00  Period no-fire and solar cooking.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD/no-fire-cook-msg.html

Stefan

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