[Sca-cooks] Cooking without Fire

[Stefan li Rous]

Gwyn replied to me with:
<<< Actually, the last entry there IS new information to me--similar to the
Anglo-Normal source but from Germany and a few centuries later, with tin
dishes instead of an earthenware pot.  It means the technique was known at
least more broadly than I thought!  Nifty!  My effusive thanks! >>>

Good to hear the Florilegium is still being useful. I’m never sure these days with the increased amount to stuff online.

I’ll have to make sure this new material gets into that file.

<<< If I can get my hands on quicklime (and I think I have a local source),
then after the Playdate at Golden Beltane, I will give you a writeup to add
to that file! >>>

Not sure where or when that is. :-)  But I’d love a hands-on viewpoint.

Around here limestone is the most common rock. So I could probably make quicklime with some of that and a heat source. But if you can find it already powdered and made with industrial processes and therefor cheaper, it might be good to go that way, at least the first time. Could make a good, unusual A&S entry.

And of course, from either source, if you take it to something like this last Gulf Wars, you will want to keep it sealed and dry. Not something to have bubbling away while you are trying to put your tent back up. :-)

Stefan

> I?d love to hear more, myself. Here is what I have in the Florilegium, but
> I don?t think it?s any more than what you have.
> 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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