[Sca-cooks] A Dublin Archeologist Tries to Recreate Medieval Bread

[Robin Carroll-Mann]

It's from "Two Fifteenth Century Cookbooks"
http://medievalcookery.com/search/display.html?twofi:396

Brighid ni Chiarain

On Thu, Feb 7, 2019 at 6:59 PM Penn de Moranza <penndemoranza at gmail.com>
wrote:

> The article mentions a twice-baked raston:
> "One type of medieval bread she makes with the students is from an old
> English recipe. The “twice-baked raston” is bread that’s scooped out of the
> crust, mixed with butter, put back in, and baked again."
> Does anyone have a source for this? It sounds really interesting.
>
> Penn
>
> On Thu, 7 Feb 2019 at 17:24, Johnna Holloway <johnnae at mac.com> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> https://dublininquirer.com/2019/02/06/a-dublin-archeologist-tries-to-recreate-medieval-bread?fbclid=IwAR1RrdHrxrgcmFUtOyuo4llXk3dMZRLRM_p68Azjhcgo7SW7OOraAm3h-qQ
> > <
> >
> https://dublininquirer.com/2019/02/06/a-dublin-archeologist-tries-to-recreate-medieval-bread?fbclid=IwAR1RrdHrxrgcmFUtOyuo4llXk3dMZRLRM_p68Azjhcgo7SW7OOraAm3h-qQ
> > >
> >
> > L’Estrange is doing all this as part of a PhD in archaeology. The focus
> of
> > her research is on food of the Middle Ages, particularly bread. She wants
> > to understand how it was produced in Ireland.
> >
> > The oven L’Estrange is reconstructing is based on one found at St
> Audeon’s
> > Church, near Christ Church in Dublin. It was excavated by the
> archaeologist
> > Franc Myles within the last couple of years.
> >
> > L’Estrange thinks it could have been a community oven.
> >
> > “If my theory is correct, this oven would have been too big for just a
> > family. So it might have been for a group of houses, and they used this
> as
> > their bread oven. That’s what I’m hoping,” she says.
> >
> > She’ll test her hypothesis when the replica oven is ready. She says it
> > will be a hemispherical, clay-domed, open-air oven.
> >
> > Because post holes are often found nearby in the archaeological record,
> > she believes such ovens were protected by additional structures. “So I’m
> > going to put a sloped roof over it, protecting it.”
> >
> > Johnna
> >
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