[Sca-cooks] Sca-cooks Digest, Vol 143, Issue 2

[Alec Story]

The book I'm working through (Qimin Yaoshu, +6th century China) calls for
rice straw fires or dung fires depending on the thing being cooked.

On Sat, Mar 3, 2018, 11:30 PM Galefridus Peregrinus <galefridus at optimum.net>
wrote:

> I am not surprised that they used ruminant dung -- it has a fair bit of
> undigested cellulose. Use of chaff, however -- that's new to me. Any
> references?
>
> -- Galefridus
>
>
> On Sat Mar 3 17:38:08 PST 2018, Terry Decker said:
>
> Archeological evidence suggests that in some locales the chaff is used
> as the fuel for cooking and for the Middle East, I expect that dried
> dung was commonly used.  The paper Johnna referenced is interesting, but
> I need to give it more than a cursory examination.
>
>
>
> Bear
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