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rix_scaedu. "A Recipe for Rabbit Pie"
To make rabbit pie,
first catch a rabbit.
You must know
your quarry
and its ways.
Kill it and skin it
and cut it in pieces.
Dig up roots to go with it,
the sweet carrots and
the pungent onions.
Find the wild wheat
and glean its seeds,
pound them to powder,
and make a crust.
To make rabbit pie,
first build an oven.
Take clay from
the riverbank and
bake it into bricks.
Stack them around
the glowing coals.
Make the dough
for the crust, put in
the meat and vegetables,
and leave it all to cook.
To make rabbit pie,
you must know both
the forest and the field.
Then the food will nourish
your body and your soul,
giving you lean muscle
and a good heart
for all your days.
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Notes:
Catching rabbits is a useful survival skill.
Here is a modern recipe for rabbit pie.
Wildcrafting can feed you a long list of things. Popular options include wild onions and wild carrots.
Wild wheat is tedious to gather and thresh, but has the advantage of storing well compared to most historic foods.
Know how to harvest clay, make bricks, and build an oven.
December 4 2019, 07:28:46 UTC 1 year ago
You know, I've been doing ceramics all my life, but I have no idea how to go about digging clay and then prepping it to make bricks and then build an oven from them.
I do know how to pour molds, prep the greenware, fire it and then glaze it though I've never had a ceramics teacher that did know how to do the primitive basics of it all.
It would be nice to know how to build a clay oven.
:^)
Well ...
December 4 2019, 07:51:27 UTC 1 year ago
I dug the damn stuff out of the ground and cleaned it by hand. Took forever. That was this life even, a summer camp. Fun for play, but it turns out there's a much easier way to clean clay. Swish it around in a lot of water, and the particles will fractionate. Then you put the wet clay in a cloth and let it drain until it's workable. \o/ We fired ours in a campfire. Bricks you pack into a mold and pop them out to dry in the sun before firing.
As for the oven, if you can make something with Legos you can probably make it with bricks. I've seen plenty of backyard grills that were just a U-shape of bricks with a rack over the top, and a chimney. For an oven you just need a lower notch with a fire in it and an upper notch for the food. It's sturdier if you fasten the bricks with something, but not required.
>>I do know how to pour molds, prep the greenware, fire it and then glaze it though I've never had a ceramics teacher that did know how to do the primitive basics of it all.<<
Awesome. I've done some things with ceramic, but mostly working by hand rather than molds or wheels. *chuckle* Nothing is impossible.
>>It would be nice to know how to build a clay oven.<<
Check the links. There are lots of ways, I just gave one. If you want more, type "how to build a clay oven" and see what you get. Or brick.
April 30 2020, 23:11:19 UTC 1 year ago