Dr Pepper muttered....

> Sounds like HOECAKES to me, , , , ,
> Bread cooked on a hoe over a charcoal fire.???
>
> Ron C.
> =========================================

Didn't the Scots marauders in the Border Wars toast their oatcakes on the
shields?


> On 05 Jan 2004 10:10:06 -0500, Allan Adler >
> wrote:
>
>>
>>I'm enjoying Inea BUSHNAQ's book, Arab Folktales, published by
>>Pantheon Books, 1986. On p.47, she describes bread being cooked in the
>>following manner by a member of a raiding party: "He mixed flour with
>>water, enough to feed a whole band that is hungry and worn. He buried
>>the flat dough in hot ashes and covered it with sand. Then he waited."
>>
>>I think that if I tried to do this, I would wind up eating a lot of
>>sand and ashes. Does someone know more precise instructions for this
>>method of baking bread?
>>


Similar baking shows up in several cultures (and in essence is no "grosser"
than burying Irish or sweet potatoes in live coals). I've had both fish and
fowl (nasty feathers left on) cooked in coals. Simply "peel and eat".

Our nomadic ancestors were short on cooking vessels. When you attempt the
AmerIndian practice of boiling food by dropping heated rocks in a straw
"pot" (where the wet fibres swell to slow leaking), you can get awful
hungry before the hominy is done.

Armadillo comes with its own baking dish (but carries the Hansen's virus
and may make you literally put your nose into things or "throw in your
hand" at bridge - although asa disease transmission vestor few cases are
apparent).

TMO