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Cooking medievally in the comfort of your own home
I recently hosted a hearth cooking night at our house, and while I was having too much fun to remember to take pictures during the event, when I repeated some of the experiments on my own later I decided to document it.
It's much easier to cook in a fireplace than you might think! This is the fireplace in my apartment, which is actually rather small. It has a good sized pipkin, a much smaller one, and some chestnuts all in it at once. You could also experiment with roasting (I need a spit!) or grilling, and cast iron will work just fine if you don't have pottery.
Some tips: get the fire going well in advance of when you want to cook. Start with a BIG fire and let it burn down to coals. You'll actually be cooking over small piles of coals moved off the main blaze. For roasting chestnuts, I heated the base of the hearth with coals, then scraped them back into the fire and put the chestnuts (slashed) on that.
Cooking medievally in the comfort of your own home
I recently hosted a hearth cooking night at our house, and while I was having too much fun to remember to take pictures during the event, when I repeated some of the experiments on my own later I decided to document it.
It's much easier to cook in a fireplace than you might think! This is the fireplace in my apartment, which is actually rather small. It has a good sized pipkin, a much smaller one, and some chestnuts all in it at once. You could also experiment with roasting (I need a spit!) or grilling, and cast iron will work just fine if you don't have pottery.
Some tips: get the fire going well in advance of when you want to cook. Start with a BIG fire and let it burn down to coals. You'll actually be cooking over small piles of coals moved off the main blaze. For roasting chestnuts, I heated the base of the hearth with coals, then scraped them back into the fire and put the chestnuts (slashed) on that.