bogus address wrote:
>
> >> Sounds like HOECAKES to me, , , , ,
> >> Bread cooked on a hoe over a charcoal fire.???
> > Didn't the Scots marauders in the Border Wars toast their oatcakes
> > on the shields?
>
> Froissart said the Scots soldiers of his time (when were these
> "Border Wars" you allude to?) carried iron griddles. Easier to
> carry than a shield, and surely only the more elite ranks would
> have had shields anyway.
>
> This is quite a different technique from the ash cookery the
> original poster was talking about.

'Girdles', surely... Like the one on my web site... or possibly
more like the one my mum has in shape of hoop handle for hanging over
the fire. Mind, not quite like hers either, it having been made for her
mum out of a disk of half inch armour plating...

I took him to be referring to the reiver raids that took place over
several hundred years, rather than actual wars.
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