07-22-2007, 07:06 AM
It would vastly improve the economy of feeding all those clients and flatterers looking for a free dinner party. Just let the wine flow freely, and they'll never notice
Most sources I've come across (and they may be wrong) state the legionaries carried a ration of grain. Unground; did they have a small quern in the baggage wagon? I do know that they carried a small cooking pot. Was that just for when they were on the march? I haven't done this in a long time, but I once made a nice chunk of bread by wrapping a bit of dough with 2 or 3 layers of wet leaves, then putting it in the campfire's hot ashes for about 20 minutes. Not doable in Syria, Judea or Asia Minor, not on a large scale. Maybe they did it in Gaul or Britain.
Another method would be to put the dough on a hot rock, then cover it up with the clay pot, or fry it up bannock-style, like the backwoodsmen of my country.
Most sources I've come across (and they may be wrong) state the legionaries carried a ration of grain. Unground; did they have a small quern in the baggage wagon? I do know that they carried a small cooking pot. Was that just for when they were on the march? I haven't done this in a long time, but I once made a nice chunk of bread by wrapping a bit of dough with 2 or 3 layers of wet leaves, then putting it in the campfire's hot ashes for about 20 minutes. Not doable in Syria, Judea or Asia Minor, not on a large scale. Maybe they did it in Gaul or Britain.
Another method would be to put the dough on a hot rock, then cover it up with the clay pot, or fry it up bannock-style, like the backwoodsmen of my country.
---AH Mervla, aka Joel Boynton
Legio XIIII, Gemina Martia Victrix
Legio XIIII, Gemina Martia Victrix