>Subject: Re: coconut milk ... and cooking history

>> The point is not about cooking. But roasting, frying at high
>> temperatures. And with lots of fat.

What about oven pits? Not the burnt mound type which cooked with water, but
the hole in the ground in which the animal was inserted and covered with hot
rocks. I know this practice was used in Scotland until late medieval, and
often wonder if the burnt mounds really did use water (- or were they
saunas??) It seems to me that the broth from a burnt mound would get a bit
contaminated and be a lot more wasteful, never mind the taste aspect... Either
way - the technology was available if they thought to do it.

Fran

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