Would'nt it be possible to cook seeds (and other foods) , by using them as
"stuffing"   -  in an aimal cooked in an earth pit with hot stones ?
If I were a stone-age cook  I certainly would experiment with that :-)

Esben



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From: Thomas Gentles <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2001 11:07 PM
Subject: [P-F] yams and sweet potatoes [and seeds]


> On Thu, 23 Nov 2001 16:00:09 -0500, Quentin Grady wrote:
>
> >Roasting game on a spit is very low tech compared to boiling some
> >beans.    That is not to say you don't have a point.  Just that more
> >technology is required to cook legumes to remove antinutrients.
> >Is pottery 2 million years old?
>
> A few years ago I checked on the earliest pottery records available. The
earliest record I could find was a Japanese record of about 15, 000 years
ago. Pottery only came into common use around the world about 13,000 years
BCE, as I recollect. I had thought it would have been much earlier.
>
> Anyway I know water can be boiled in a pit lined with an old animal hide.
I do this every year at a demonstration of ancient technology  put on by our
archaeological society. Just a matter of rolling red hot stones into the
pit.
>
> And I've read that it's possible to boil water in a hide hung over a fire.
But anyone I know who's tried this has failed miserably.
>
> Tom Gentles,
> Regina, SK
>