The Armour Archive

Baron Conal

WOw.. you need a LOT of heat to get the lid to that kind of "warmth" on the legs of the inverted oven. unless you are being sarcastic I guess I need to take a photo.... or a drawing or not... it will not let me attach it.... G'night.... coronation tomorrow more later The bread.... too wet...

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Karl wrote: My wife has even found huge ones for her largest dutch ovens which she uses to bake excellent breads and pies at many events.

talk you wife into adding her wisdom here if you can

thanks in advance!!

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another thought occurred to me while loading the dishwasher.... the problem with these rules...? they are too vague. you get two marshals with two differing opinions and you have can have two guys in the same armor gets two different and possibly opposing inspections.... Or the same guy whose armor ...

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Bjorn Leorhals wrote:I've never used the bottom of the oven as a griddle.

not right on the bottom of the oven....

the coals go on the bottom of the oven and the lid sits
upside down on the legs with the coals under it.

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Absolutely raise the bottom of the bread pan off the bottom of the bottom of the dutch oven. If you don't it will burn every time. A couple of easy ways to do this are with rocks (watch out for exploding rocks) or balls of aluminum foil. Also as someone said earlier put some coals on top of the ove...

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After three pages the arguments ( both sides ) seemed to be the same couple things repeated over and over. It got kinda boring... So I started skimming, I apologize if I missed something important. The standards are fairly easy to meet. A fighting tunic covers 99% of the 'violations' and spray paint...

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yeast is by far a better pet than a sea monkey!

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the Court Jester?

only partially kidding... there are worse choices

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Hey Maeryk, do you use a starter for your bread? That has to be the best trick I learned for really nice yeasty flavor. Mix up a little yeast water and flour a few days before you want to bake and let it go. I use some of that ( and then feed it again ) and a little fresh yeast when I bake and I get...

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Oh yeah, I forgot the King Arthur Flour Company Cookbook Something in the neighborhood of 600 pages. I'll take pictures and share after I'm done the bread dough in question for today is a wetter/softer dough for a bread similar to ciabatta ( a word I just had to add to chrome spell checker.... ) Sof...

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My Bread cookbooks....? The Bread Bakers Bible - Rose Levy Bernambaum English Bread and Yeast Cookery - Elizabth David The Bread Baker's Apprentice - Peter Reinhart Baking bread at Home - Tome Jaine What books do you have? I'll pull them out and skim thought them... thanks for reminding me that they...

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a thermometer is your friend.. experiment a bit with just how many coals you need to get (and keep) a proper temp in/around the oven. Some breads cook really well fast and hot, some like lower and slower.. knowing how to vary that will help IMMENSELY in your cooking. I spent several hours bugging C...

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Use a lid that has a lip around the edge and place coals on the top as well as under. This helps even out the cooking. I have also heard that if you use a rack inside the oven with your bread in another loaf pan on top of the rack it results in a better non burnt bread. I tend to just have fun with...

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Camping season is coming! ( for some it is already here ) Flipping the body of the oven over and using the legs to support the lid ( upside down ) so you can use it like a griddle is ( off the top of my head ) my favorite 'trick'. You put the colas on the bottom of the oven and you are ready to go. ...

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Gonna try it again later today.... Oven element went out and I have bread dough rising....so, I might as well get a dutch oven out. And the idea of FRESH bread at camping events is good too, so I do need to learn how to do it. Last attempt the bottom of the loaf was a little 'over done' Anyone do th...

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the rivet in the center?

does it serve a specific purpose?

can it be left off?

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I wear turn shoes to fight in, and I firmly believe its improved my footwork. I no longer take uncontrolled steps and lunges; since they make you slip or fall.

+1

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I'm a member of La Belle. Did you get your question satisfactorily answered? If not, shoot me a message, or rewrite your entire question, and I can send it to the group. But yeah, using the contact info on the website works too. I got a very answer answer to the question from Tracy http://www.flick...

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RandallMoffett wrote: if you can make it!

RPM

there is the crucial factor in the whole thing.

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Tracy Justus wrote:
Thanks for the compliment, but I am nowhere near Karen's level of awesomness.

Tracy

Today you are.

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MacTavish wrote:Why does it have to be blue? Things are allways blue. I will pick this up as well.

Edward

sold

discussing other options for un-blueing it

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the basic concept has a fairly wide time span

those are decorated in a 14th century style

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MacTavish wrote:I will take them unfinished please with the local pick up option. Where would you like me to send the money to?

Edward

sold pending payment
( not that I'm worried about it )

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ok, exactly what im looking for would have 3 interior sections. 1. 12" x 14" for my helm. a long center space about 30"for armor and a smaller section about 14" x 6" for knee pads gloves and such. the heighth would be 20" and the width would obviously be 14" the i...

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Tracy, is that a photo you took?

Got a higher res version of it?

( today you are already as high on my list as Karen
even without the higher res version )

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I defense of the police, they usually do NOT have the budget to deal with ANY property crime that is not capital. Where I used to live there were 2 sheriffs deputies for an area of about 13 K square miles and over 150 K people, on weekends. If it's not murder, it doesn't get investigated. Property ...

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Tracy Justus wrote:Here. --T.

This is gonna sound really weird but I can't think of a better
way to say it.

You are covered in awesome sauce!

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damn, everything is just what im looking for except the length. figures. i need something with interior dimensions of 14" width, and at least 50"length and 20" tall. what would you charge for something in those dimensions? un finished would also be best. You want the same style or th...

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i cant see pics at work but im interested as well if the dimensions are what im looking for. so second dibs depending. I am interested in it. What is the dimensions? I wrote the dimensions down and forgot to put them in the posting... rounding the the nearest 1/4" chest - 31 1/2" long x 1...

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I've got a painted blue plywood chest I'm been tripping over. Want to be up front on this part. The paint job is not 100% perfect. If you run your hand over it you can feel a little roughness in the surface. It's not bad, it's just not as good as I would like. ( probably just me being picky about my...

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Why not just give page number and image location then any one that wants to follow along can go and buy the book and then consider it money well spent. because that would be way to obvious a way to do it.... page 36 both photos on the page show the cabinet I'm curious about that the bottom of the c...

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Cops rarely seem to take interest in thefts. When my car was stolen, I was ready for goddam CSI to come in and SWAT ninjas to find these guys by helicopter, but they didn't even send a car out to talk with me or look. I got a call three months later from the cops saying that my car had been found, ...

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thanks!

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James B. wrote:You could always email La Belle from their website: http://www.labelle.org/

thank you.

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I was trying out a new way to make trestle tables legs. It worked.... but not in the way I had hoped for. It was not faster and easier to make them that way. So I've got a prototype set of trestle table legs for sale. http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r295/ConalOhAirt/SCA%20woodworking/DSCF2487.jpg...

Re: trivet

your favorite cast iron dutch oven recipes, tricks and tips?

baking bread in a cast iron dutch oven ( with coals )

painted blue plywood chest ( sold )

Re: question on photo from Peel Affinity

unfinished trestle tale legs (sold )