About eggs...

[Screaming Eagle]

So, one might ask, how did people cook eggs in the Middle ages? Without kitchens or timers or any 'real' appliances or even watches, how did they cook eggs? The answer please...(drumroll)

 

 

John Cardy Jeaffreson, a social historian, wrote: "The peasant

who bakes his egg in hot wood embers piled about the shell knows

by a sure sign when the meat is sufficiently cooked. As soon as

a clear dew drop exudes from the shell's top, visible above the

embers, the egg is done to the perfection of softness." ("A Book

About The Table", published in 1875.) It sounds strange to our

ears, but we have to remember that in the Middle Ages they did

not have modern kitchens!

[sassenach]

they had fireplaces rigged for cooking or clay or metal stoves, just not very modern yet. copper pots, tin pots maybe, pewter and silver for the rich. cast irons been around a long time.... kettles.

the middle ages were not neanderthal times.

 

[PoGo]

Interesting, Screaming Eagle. 'Twould be cool to try and replicate.

[sassenach]

Have you ever cooked the eggs like that when you were camping?

just break off the top third of the egg and stick it in hot ashes by the coals. Should work pretty easy.

You will know when it is cooked!

[PoGo]

No, I haven't cooked eggs like that. We have cooked potatoes and tinfoil dinners in the hot coals.

[Snowmom]

 

I just did a search and came up with this.

 

There are several recipes for other things as well as the eggs.

 

http://www.geocities.com/and_pollett/mari4.htm

 

eggs cooked in the coals

 

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Take the whole eggs and place them on the red hot coals, and beat them with a stick until they break, and let them cook. When they look ready, take them off and garnish them with a little vinegar and parsley.

 

This is for about the late 1400's and early 1500's.

 

 

[kathy003]

Potaotes and tinfoil dinner's taste the BEST when cooked on a fire! We just cut up them potatoes, add butter, bacon and onion and cook it up!

 

I have to cook twice the amount of potatoes when we go camping and I make this because everyone just loves it!

 

The bummer part is, i live in the city so I can't cook them like that on a regular basis.

 

[PoGo]

I live in the city, too. I'm tempted to get one of those patio fire pit thingies, then I could cook in the coals whenever I wanted!