This week is a nice long episode on cookfires. We were asked for more detail on the making and keeping of fires for cooking so we’ll tell you about:
• fire starting, and building a bed of coals
• Equipment including wood types, bases, tools and more
• keeping a fire going, and putting that fire out
Musical Interlude: Buttercup’s Air by Night Heron Consort
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This week Stephen and Alena were joined by Amanda Sullivan to talk about cooking in a Living History setting. We talked about:
• Food as a metaconcept and our modern relationship with food
• Cooking on an open fire, in a hearth, or in a wood-fired oven.
• Fire Safety
• adding cooking to your activities
• teaching cooking
• working with period recipes and ingredients
Musical Interlude: Grimstock & Sellenger His Rounde performed by Diabolus In Musica, off the Skirmish Presents: All in Tune with History CD
Download:Historical Cooking
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