Cooking Guild

[Dottie Elliott]

I have been running a cooks guild for a while now in Bryn Gwlad. I get 
2-5 people each month attending. If folks are new to cooking period food 
you might want to start out with some tried and true recipes so everyone 
can get use to the taste of period food. However, the true fun is in 
redacting the recipes and seeing what it taste like.  I usually choose 
the recipes and buy the ingredients and then we discuss how much of each 
to add and keep tasting and adding 'til we have what we want.  I have 
never been in a cooks guild before so I have no idea how they are usually 
run. If possible, I think you should just set a regular time/place to 
have it. I think that is one of the problems with my guild is that its 
day each month changes since I hold it on a Sunday and I have to choose 
one where I will be in town or back from an event in time.  If you tell 
me what sort of recipes you are looking for (meat, veggie, dessert, etc) 
I can send you some. There is also an excellent source of recipes that I 
think are very useful on line provided by Duke Cariadoc at: 
http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/cariadoc/miscellany.html

Clarissa