[Spit-Project] Book Recommendation

[Helen Schultz]

This list has been rather quiet of late, so here is something to think about <grin>.

I had recommended the following book earlier last year, but hadn't really read much of it then.  Well, I've been looking at it all day today (in front of a toasty fire in the fireplace on a snowy New Year's Day in Indiana), and I find it is full of great instruction for cooking over a firepit... although his recipes are for cooking inside with a fireplace, most of them can be very easily adapted for firepit cooking.  He has several really good chicken recipes (including spinning ones), and even tells you just how long to cook them... as well as some good lamb, fish, and other meats.  He explains how to measure the heat of your fire with and without modern appliances, and all sorts of different mostly period tools and equipment to use. 

He also has used a couple Medieval recipes as a basis for his own renditions... and has a decent bibleography attached.  I highly recommend this book to everyone on this list!!

“The Magic of Fire, Hearth Cooking,” by William Rubel.  ISBN: 1-58008-453-2  Published by Ten Speed Press, 2002.   This is an excellent book on how to cook over an indoor hearth.  Although meant for the modern person, most of the techniques are very close to Medieval.  Contains at least 100 recipes and lots of great photos of hearth cooking.

 
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Meisterin Katarina Helene von Schönborn, OL 
Shire of Narrental (Peru, Indiana) http://narrental.home.comcast.net 
Middle Kingdom 
http://meisterin.katarina.home.comcast.net 
 
"A room without books is like a body without a soul." -- Cicero 
 
"The danger in life is not that we aim too high and miss. 
The problem is that we aim too low and hit the mark." -- Michaelangelo 
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