Welcome to Jan Derry's Home Page

 

Always a work in progress.

I'm posing with the blue ribbon I won for my camp at Military Through the Ages 2003 at Jamestown, Virginia.  This is the First Place for Camp Cooking.  I made a Boiled Joint of Kid with Leeks, Purple Carrots and Parsnips and served it with Wheat-Rye-Barley Bread baked in a portable ceramic oven of my own making.  The leaven for the bread was authentic, butter for the bread was churned on site, and all was accompanied by homemade cheese, hard-boiled eggs, rose-hip syrup and suchlike comestibles.

I'm wearing a wool cape fastened with a square-headed brooch of bronze over a woolen bog dress (over a linen underdress) and nålbinded mitts.  This is my interpretation of what the well-turned-out sixth century Saxon invader wears during the Dark Ages migrations.  My husband made my big cooking fork.

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Other interests:

Pottery

I've been throwing pottery for about 2 years.  Here are some pictures  and some pieces are for sale. Click Here

Storytelling

http://www.storynet.org/Getting%20Started.htm

The national storytelling organization

http://www.aaronshep.com/storytelling/

A personal homepage with lots of information about storytelling, and lots of tales

http://www.darsie.net/talesofwonder/

Tales from around the world

http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~spok/grimmtmp/

Grimm’s fairy tales in E-text

 

Sheep, Wool, Spinning and Weaving

http://www.sheepandwool.org/

The Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival – the best free show in the state of Maryland!

http://www.the-mannings.com/

You can buy all kinds of books and materials here for fiber crafts!

http://www.urbanspinner.com/index.shtml

Spinning and Charkhas

http://together.net/~kbruce/kbbspin.html

Buy fiber equipment used! Save money!

http://user.tninet.se/~nia651g/Welcom.htm

Swedish spinning and weaving – especially good information on flax and linen.

The Anglo-Saxon Bread Oven (Retained heat masonry ovens and breadmaking)

http://www.regia.org/ovens.htm

 

An Anglo-Saxon bread oven reconstruction in the UK

 

http://mha-net.org/msb/html/bakeoven.htm

 

Modern masonry ovens for breadmaking – lots of information.

 

 I am a school library media specialist (teacher-librarian to English-speakers) but I feel no need to include links about this.

 

 

Expect changes!

Last edited 11/02/2003