[Ansteorra-announce] Stefan's files for August

[Mark.S Harris]

Greetings,

Here is a copy of my monthly article for August, detailing what is
new in the Florilegium this month.

If you are an SCA newsletter editor and would like to get this
article for publication on the fifth of the month, instead of at the
end of the month (or in this case the beginning of the next month),
please contact me.

For those journeying to Pennsic this year, I hope to meet some of
you there. If you have any comments or suggestions on the Florilegium,
please look me up there. I will be camping with the SPCA group on the
north side of the lake.

Stefan

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A Blending of the Past and Present

Over the past eleven years in an ongoing effort, I have been collecting
bits of useful information from various newsgroups, mail lists and
articles submitted to me by their authors. In order to make this
information available to others, I have placed this information in
a series of files I call Stefan's Florilegium.

The Florilegium is on the web at: http://www.florilegium.org

Files that are new or have been updated are indicated by a special
marker in the filelists at the website. In addition, the file
-updated-files is a listing of these files in chronological order.

A copy of my complete filelist is available in most sections of the
website. This filelist or any of my files is also available from me
by email in either Word or text formats.

If you find a bad link or other problem with the Florilegium website,
please let me know. Once I know about a problem I can usually fix it
that day but if no one alerts me to a problem it may be months before
I notice it myself.

I am always interested in new articles. If you have written an article
that would be of interest to others in the SCA, please send it to me
for possible inclusion in the Florilegium. Contact me for more details.

    THLord Stefan li Rous   (512)892-0036    stefan at florilegium.org
    Ansteorra                             mark.s.harris at motorola.com

The new files for this month are:
under NEWCOMER:
   SCA-courts-nc-msg  Comments and about SCA Courts for newcomers.
under COMMERCE:
   p-spice-trade-msg  The period spice trade. Routes, methods.
under CRAFTS:
   paintg-panels-msg  Wood panels as a painting medium.
under FEASTS:
   ClancyDay-fst-art  "Clancy Day Feast" by Dame Hauviette d'Anjou
   hot-weth-fsts-msg  Ideas and menus for hot weather feasts.
   Irish-Vik-fst-art  A feast based on the Irish Vikings.
under FOOD:
   Vinegar-art        "What's so special about Vinegar?" by
                         Mistress Christianna MacGrain.
under FOOD-BREADS:
   Ancent-Grains-art  "Looking into Ancient Grains" by Mistress
                         Christianna MacGrain.
under FOOD-CONDIMENTS:
   camelne-sauce-msg  Sauces w. cinnamon as a major component.
under FOOD-MEATS:
   Braised-Beef-art   "Frankish Braised Beef - A Recipe from
                         Anthimus' De obseruatione ciborum" by
                         Lady Clotild of Soissons
under FOOD-SWEETS:
   candied-peel-msg   Candied fruit peels. A late period treat.
   carob-msg          Use of carob in period.
   Digby-Cakes-art    "Excellent Small Cakes Revisited"
                         by Tirloch of Tallaght.
   Rosquillas-msg     Spanish pastry of biscotti-like rings.
   sugar-sources-msg  Modern sugar sources. Sugar types.
under HERALDRY:
   Sinister-Hand-art  "Argent, A Sinister Hand Erect Couped Gules"
                         by Ld. Daniel Raoul le Vascon.
under NEWCOMERS:
   SCA-Personas-art   "On Choosing a Name and a Persona; A Quick
                         and Dirty Guide" by Ld. Daniel Raoul Le
                         Vascon du Navarre'.
under PLANTS, HERBS AND SPICES:
   Gillyflower-art    "A Gillyflower by any Other Name Would Still
                          Smell of Cloves" by Sarra of Caer Adamant
under WEDDINGS:
   Wed-Flowers-art    "Flowers for a Period Wedding" by Sarra of
                         Caer Adamant (Sarah Dressler).

Here are a few of the files that have been updated this month:
   frumenty-msg       A period cooked grain dish, often barley.
   nefs-msg           Richly decorated medieval salt cellars.
   pastries-msg       Medieval pastries. Recipes.
   pork-msg           Use of pork in period. Pork recipes.
   root-veg-msg       Medieval and period root vegetables.
   sauces-msg         Period sauces. Sauce recipes.
   sewing-tools-msg   Medieval sewing tools, needles, thimbles.
   siege-engines-msg  Catapults, trebuchets. Period and modern.
   verjuice-msg       Medieval verjuice. Modern substitutions.

In August a number of you may be headed to Pennsic. For those who are,
especially those who are making the trip for the first time, there are
some files in the PENNSIC and the SCA-CAMPING section which may prove
useful to you.
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Copyright 2001, Mark S. Harris.
Permission to reprint in SCA-related publications is hereby
granted if the contents are left unchanged and the author is
notified of the publication. Notification may be by email and
reformatting is allowed.

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