- Name: THL Thomas de Marr’
- Project Title: Medieval Stove
- Location: Barony of Endewearde
- EK wiki: Thomas de Marr’
- Blog page: Medieval Stove Project
- Category: Cooking / brewing
My goal in this project is to explore the history and evolution of the medieval stove. In particular, how to use them to cook recipes that are period specific for brewing and by extension, cooking. I wanted to know how different methods of using fire could affect the process of boiling liquids in order to make mead, beer, hippocras and other brewing related recipes. This quickly led to a wider investigation of kitchen set ups and uses throughout the medieval period for all cooking, not just brewing. I am not alone in this project of creating a medieval kitchen for use and experimentation with, Bannock the Baker (Benjamin Baxter) built a cobb oven onsite with help from Ulf of Malbu (Doug Arntzen). Next, after consultation with them on placement of the stove unit, we built a wooden post and beam awning structure to protect the units and workers from the elements as it is an outdoor set up. Once this was done, I was prepared to build my portion of the project which is the stove.
This stove was built on a site continuously used for medieval events with the goal of other people being free to use and experiment with it. To that end I am getting three different trivets of the varying heights 2”, 4” and 6”. This will allow the cook to control how hot the cooking surface will be and free up the original trivet for use on the side with the raised hearth where the fire is used directly under it.
As part of the larger outdoor medieval kitchen our next step is focusing on preparation areas such as worktables under canvas awnings and iron hooks for lanterns. This will help with nighttime operations and inclement weather.
Attached is my full documentation as a PDF. My blog page has the documentation with more in depth demonstrations of period sources and videos of the creation and use of the stove.
Documentation: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WuVFu3kv5gULzI0x1Gf7JOm6ObY_9M4g/view?usp=sharing