Are we talking about pre-historic cooking, which would refer to how food was cooked before there was writing and history? Or are we talking about pre-gas or electric cooking, which is scarcely 100 years young? LJardine ----- Original Message ----- From: "Fiona" <fiona@deerness.com> To: <ORCADIA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 10:01 AM Subject: Prehistoric cooking - WAS Re: [<orcadia>] stovies > Has >> anyone seen any info on cooking in the open fire days with recipes, etc. >> >> Karen > > I was at a talk a couple of years ago by Jacqui Wood. It as part of the > 'Minehowe Knowhow' event, and was about prehistoric cooking. It was really > interesting - she's an experimental archaeologist. If I remembet right > she's > the one who did the recreation of the Orkney Hood, which there's been > mention of in the past on this list. > > She's written a book, although I've never seen it. There's a little about > prehistoric cooking and a few recipes from her on the Channel 4 time Team > website: > http://www.channel4.com/history/timeteam/snapshot_recipes.html > > I quite like the look of the barley bread and sweet bread recipes and > might > give them a go. > > Fiona > Orkney > www.picturetrail.com/orcadia > > > > ==== ORCADIA Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe from the Orcadia mailing list, send an e-mail with the word > 'unsubscribe' in the message body to orcadia-l-request@rootsweb.com > >