[Sca-cooks] Traveling pizza ovens

[Patricia Dunham]

Thanks Bear... that sent me scurrying to make sure my English Bread and was an edition with the Hess notes! whew, yes it is, 8-). 

I'm usually not much interested in American historical cookery, but Martha Washington was one of my earlier-acquired historical-oriented cookery books and I LOVE Hess! Maybe I'll take a look at the other books, just to read over her annotations!

chimene

On Mar 7, 2012, at 8:56 AM, Terry Decker wrote:

> You don't need to use clay to hold the bricks together.  The ancient Egyptians built stack ovens (where the bricks are merely stacked together to produce a heat retaining mass) for small scale baking.  IIRC, there is an illustration in David's English Bread and Yeast Cookery (Hess edited edition).
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> Bear
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> Hi Mercy,
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> There's a travelling pizza oven that comes to the Ferry Building Farmers Market http://www.pizzapolitana.com/
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> There also used to be a lady here who had a bread oven on a trailer that she would sometimes bring to events, but I haven't seen her around for awhile.
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> Ana de Serra build to temporary brick oven at the cooks playdate at the West An Tir War several years ago. The site owner let us leave the bricks there, so theoretically we could do it again if someone brought a bucket of clay :-)
> ....