Post by dunderi on May 30, 2013 18:15:44 GMT -5
Hi guys
this is a bit of a weird one, but then i guess i've been on here long enough for you all to know I'm a little weird :-)
every year, there is a medieval fair here in my state. its the biggest thing of its kind in the southern hemisphere, and i go every year. i love it. i dress up in historically accurate clothes made from the correct materials in the correct way, and i take my drinking horn (on a leather frog from my belt) and my coin purse and we all have a merry old time.
there are several re-enactment groups that do these sorts of things regularly - and a group i'm particularly interested in is the celtic & viking group - i have a strong scottish family history.
i'm considering looking at joining a group like this - but i would never be able to go and "stay away" ie camp out for the weekend etc, unless of course i take my milking cow Anna with me. now as far as keeping her around goes, that's easy fixed. if she had both her horns (how i repe4atedly curse the idiots who did such a munted job of dehorning her) i'd use those to tether her.
but she doesn't have 2 horns, so i'm really looking at a leather collar as i'm not really a nose-piercing type of girl. the calves will be secured in much the same way (if she has one on her at the time)
i guess my real question is, does anyone on the forum know anythings about what people used to milk into? store milk in? i imagine they'd filter it through a cloth of some kind - but into what? leave it in a timber pail?
i have a wineskin (for wine, of course, or water) but i don't really see myself putting a days worth of milk in it lol.
i know the scottish used to make many things of horn and hide (like cups and spoons from horn, and "bucket" type things from hide, for water?)
so, any thoughts, suggestions or extrapolation on medieval milking equipment & practices would be greatly appreciated. :-) (and a bit of interesting conversation eh?)
this is a bit of a weird one, but then i guess i've been on here long enough for you all to know I'm a little weird :-)
every year, there is a medieval fair here in my state. its the biggest thing of its kind in the southern hemisphere, and i go every year. i love it. i dress up in historically accurate clothes made from the correct materials in the correct way, and i take my drinking horn (on a leather frog from my belt) and my coin purse and we all have a merry old time.
there are several re-enactment groups that do these sorts of things regularly - and a group i'm particularly interested in is the celtic & viking group - i have a strong scottish family history.
i'm considering looking at joining a group like this - but i would never be able to go and "stay away" ie camp out for the weekend etc, unless of course i take my milking cow Anna with me. now as far as keeping her around goes, that's easy fixed. if she had both her horns (how i repe4atedly curse the idiots who did such a munted job of dehorning her) i'd use those to tether her.
but she doesn't have 2 horns, so i'm really looking at a leather collar as i'm not really a nose-piercing type of girl. the calves will be secured in much the same way (if she has one on her at the time)
i guess my real question is, does anyone on the forum know anythings about what people used to milk into? store milk in? i imagine they'd filter it through a cloth of some kind - but into what? leave it in a timber pail?
i have a wineskin (for wine, of course, or water) but i don't really see myself putting a days worth of milk in it lol.
i know the scottish used to make many things of horn and hide (like cups and spoons from horn, and "bucket" type things from hide, for water?)
so, any thoughts, suggestions or extrapolation on medieval milking equipment & practices would be greatly appreciated. :-) (and a bit of interesting conversation eh?)