The photo above is spits for roasting meat. One man would rotate two spits - each containing meat of about his own body weight
Above is a range of cooking pots and wood burners to cook with. Feeding a garrison must have been a nightmare.
Saturday 17 May 2014
Fantasy Dreams - Cooking
Cooking is not something you would consider in fantasy but in medieval times cooks were on the go all day long. At Hampton Court i saw a cooking pot built into the brickwork and the pot was so large it was never moved. Probably used a small child to clean it out once a year!!
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I have an Australian friend who cooks for the SCA with the old recipes, since feeding 100 at some of their meetings is about right anyway. {Smile}
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure it takes her all day. It's hard to tell. She tends to brush off such cooking as too fun a challenge to count as work. {SMILE, wink}
Kitchens seem so mundane but when you see a medieval kitchen it's more of a factory than a kitchen!! The SCA sounds like a hungry bunch!!
DeleteYeah, many branches of the SCA (Society For Creative Anachronism) seem to be known for eating heartily when they get together, my friend's included. {Smile, wink}.
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