Achim Steigert
Shinobi no Mono
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Is ズイキ meant to be a pun? I noticed it has other meanings that could be a pun here.Yes, he says you can eat dried boiled rice as it is, or boil it in jingasa using it as a cooking pan. It's best if you have zuiki (taro stem).
芋茎 - Wikipediataro stem seems like a pretty terrible addition
Ahh... interesting. Up until now, I thought taro's only use was as a rather flavorless starchy root mostly good for thickening asian stews and sauces. Maybe can find some of this 芋茎 in a local market and see, though it rather sounds like it's pretty flavorless too and you need to add a lot to make it edible...芋茎 - Wikipedia
As for jingasa's use as a pan, it described in a book 雑兵物語 written in Edo Period. However, a researcher tried it and found that the lacquer of jingasa (urushi) was dissolved in the water and couldn't eat it. Actually, it seems ashigaru usually brought a pan and cooked using it.
it rather sounds like it's pretty flavorless too and you need to add a lot to make it edible
Using a metal helmet as a pot I'm sure happened many times in many cultures... it's using laquered straw (or is it laquered wood? Either way...) as a cooking pot that struck me as implausible, and I'm not surprised that trying to replicate it showed that it didn't work. I guess if the term 陣笠 includes hats made of metal it could be a pot in that case, but you just can't use laquered plant material of any kind over an open fire and expect any good result.In the days before modern supply lines soldiers probably ate a whole lot of things without being terribly choosy about how they got their nourishment.
The use of helmets as cookpots, buckets, wash basins, etc no doubt goes back to the very first ones devised. On a slight tangent, I recently learned the story of Wheeler Lipes. It is a splendid example of ingenuity and the ability to repurpose the materials at hand to meet an emergency situation. Makes Apollo 13 look mundane in comparison. (More detail)
you just can't use laquered plant material of any kind over an open fire and expect any good result.
The researcher tried it with a steel jingasa.Using a metal helmet as a pot I'm sure happened many times in many cultures... it's using laquered straw (or is it laquered wood? Either way...) as a cooking pot that struck me as implausible, and I'm not surprised that trying to replicate it showed that it didn't work. I guess if the term 陣笠 includes hats made of metal it could be a pot in that case, but you just can't use laquered plant material of any kind over an open fire and expect any good result.
Zuiki was already seasoned.The description seems to me to say that it has a 'thin' flavor and that people currently eat it stewed with mustard, ginger, and soy sauce