Does anyone know where that Historical Food/Cooking is? I can not find it anymore. Anyway, since I can not find it anymore, lets make a new one.
I just received all kinds of cooking gear for our Napoleonic Wars impression. We should be able to to everything on our own now, and do not depend on other peoples pans and pots..
Also, in terms of cooking, I am wondering. What do you guys do at events? Do you try to cook with historical equipment only, and historical foods? For example, only with food that has actually been issued to the soldiers back then? Or do you just cook all kinds of stuff, including modern food, and food that was not issued to people back in the day?
Do you cook on the fire, using pans, or other equipment or do you use modern camping gear? Do you cook at all?
Now that we have the cooking gear, I want to cook as much on the fire as possible. I want to cook some accurate stuff, i.e. stuff only made out of the actual soldiers rations, but what I also would really like to cook is some period accurate stuff. Which means that it is accurate to the timeframe we have chosen to portray, but not all of the food might have been available to the common soldier.
What really bugs me sometimes is that while the 85e is cooking on the fire, using old pans etc., the group is not trying to cook anything that is remotely period accurate. When I am cooking for myself I would like to cook period accurate stuff. There are so many nice recipes that you can use, that taste great and are easy and fast to make. And tbh., the soldiers rations aren't too bad either. Whats wrong with meat and bread, right?