Misc Beehive Oven
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Snettrecker
Contributing Member
You use the fire to get the "oven" hot. Drag out the remains, then put your bread in the hot oven to bake. I've done it, but haven't been able to get repeated good results. More practice is needed...
That man is a wealth of information when it comes to 18th and 19 century cooking. I have known for a very long time the langue used back then for a great may things is different than what we use or call it today (lost to history) and Jas Townsend works to no end at translating it when come to old cooking recipes.
Broken Arrow
Heathen Pagan Witch
Love the Townsend stuff. I got several of the historic cookbook reprints and have fun reading them and trying the recipes. Its always good when I can couple those to their video's to verify if I was correct or not. I had hoped to build an outdoor cooking area with an open fire pit, a earth oven and a wood burning stove. Not sure how far i'll get with my hubby passed. He was the engineer of the project. Plus the fixer of the wood stove, which is now in parts unfixed.
Great. It was warm in that room though. Did bread, cornbread, beans and a pie in the bake oven ad another cornbread in a dutch oven on the hearth. Cant imagine cooking like that every day. We are going to build an earth oven outside this summer and an elevated hearth like Townsends. Probably just use the hearth for the rocket stove but it will get it up to a comfortable working height.
AlaskaSue
North to the Future
Sounds awesome! I hope you take pics of your oven build, and share how it goes. Would love to do that here
But this summer is dedicated to in-ground permafrost coolers. Maybe an oven next year. Thanks for your post!eta: also a Townsends fan…and Mrs. Crocombe (she who throws the shade at Audrey End House).