tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8743102750721348863.post4461159763530624681..comments2024-03-28T06:30:58.474-07:00Comments on Old European culture: Fulacht fiadh - a cooking pit?oldeuropeanculturehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07880222013739472782noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8743102750721348863.post-87083025690719915012016-11-05T14:13:50.816-07:002016-11-05T14:13:50.816-07:00"They commonly survive as a low horseshoe-sha..."They commonly survive as a low horseshoe-shaped mound of charcoal-enriched soil and heat shattered stone with a slight depression at its centre showing the position of the pit." Wikipedia<br /><br />fiadh ~ peat? getto (Sardinian) foundry (bog iron smelter?)<br />fulacht ~ olha(Basque) forge ~ olah(Hungarian) burnt offering<br />DDedenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10033851770461086341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8743102750721348863.post-52072972820663365292016-11-05T14:04:47.393-07:002016-11-05T14:04:47.393-07:00Does the following fit with Serbian or Irish lingu...Does the following fit with Serbian or Irish linguistics? <br /><br />Not cooking pit, but "cooking" peat, perhaps drying & baking soggy/sod/clod/coal into soft brown charcoal by constant [heat + low oxygen + pressure] adjacent to or surrounded by a cooking hearth. Perhaps also tanning of hides in a big pot? Any signs of sledges used to bring peat (piles or slabs) to these Fulachta fiadh? I'd expect to find old ruts around.DDedenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10033851770461086341noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8743102750721348863.post-64751542382619125742016-09-22T14:37:19.362-07:002016-09-22T14:37:19.362-07:00Food preservation maybe? https://en.m.wikipedia.or...Food preservation maybe? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bog_butterKletnikhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06594184037646443247noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8743102750721348863.post-27496646051241432902016-07-24T16:44:00.683-07:002016-07-24T16:44:00.683-07:00Perhaps a kind of sweat lodge, for 'cooking...Perhaps a kind of sweat lodge, for 'cooking' the inmates? Maybe with added herbal ingredients such as the Scythians were said to have used, or like a Red Indian kiva. A Serbian-Irish sauna?Odin's Ravenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10138497698247404499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8743102750721348863.post-32197500508989234472016-07-17T12:17:25.095-07:002016-07-17T12:17:25.095-07:00Jen, the Fulachta could have been used for beer br...Jen, the Fulachta could have been used for beer brewing. Successful experiments were performed that prove that possibility. But again we have the problem with marshy bogs in which most of the fulachta were built. If you dig a hole in such soil, it will fill with the acid bog water. Not the kind of water you want in your beer. So again, if the fulachta was made on a well drained terrain, next to a source of good clean water, then it could have been used for both cooking, as in pit oven cooking, not through cooking, and beer brewing. I will write a separate post about this.oldeuropeanculturehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07880222013739472782noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8743102750721348863.post-78509151819425119022016-07-17T09:32:45.652-07:002016-07-17T09:32:45.652-07:00Gereat post! Could they also have been used for br...Gereat post! Could they also have been used for brewing beer or whatever mixed brew/mead/malt drink was drunk at the time? Given the importance of drinking in the bronze age cultures (think beaker folk, the early Irish literature, etc.) among the "band of warriors" perhaps that too is logical? My husband brews from straight grains and it is a long heat-and-water intensive process. OR, another option is a "sweat lodge" sort of arrangement which was ritual in nature? Or both at one time? The creation of large quantities of brew would have been seen perhaps as sacred...jonilalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09919827503950431871noreply@blogger.com