The answer is always "YES"

When we interact with the public at an encampment, much of their curiosity involves our campfire and any food we are preparing.  "Is that a real fire?" and "Are you really going to eat that?" are so ubiquitous they've become the running joke at events.

One of the ways we can strive to improve the authenticity of our interactions with the public is by preparing and cooking meals for ourselves that might have been cooked in the 18th century, whether in military camps or otherwise.  A loaf of rustic, hearth-baked bread

When a Recipe Was a "Receipt"

Most of us know the difference between a recipe and a receipt. We think of recipe as the yellowed, typewritten card that your grandmother hands down to you that shows how she made your favorite chocolate chip cookies, and receipt as the 22-foot-long strip of paper and coupons that spits out of the register when you buy a pack of gum at the drug store.

Recipes are basically instructions; receipts are a record of what has been received as part of a transaction.   Both recipe and receipt derive from recipere, the Latin verb meaning "to receive or take," with

A usage handed down from your grandmother