ANST - Steppes 12th Night

[Mark.S Harris]

Greetings,

Tim McDaniel wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 12 Jan 1998, Gunnora Hallakarva <gunnora at bga.com> wrote:
> 
> > First, as to the volume: yes the noise was loud.  It was
> > hard to hear from the first row, and impossible beond the
> > fifth.  Yes, people were talking, but no worse than at
> > other events.
> 
> The acoustics were indeed bad, but "normal" levels of
> talking * the largest indoor event in the kingdom ==
> inaudible.  The fuggheads who kept talking (and some who I
> had hoped would know better, like N-year high-ranking
> people) were annoying me to no end.

And to think I decided to stay seated through most of court
so that I wouldn't keep others from hearing or seeing it.
We were seated near the front.

I really did want to try those cuskynoles and cheese tart
that were the third course. However, I had no idea where
they were. I had assumed from the announcement and Sir
Gunthar's conversation that they would be brought out
after court. When court dragged on toward the hall closing
time, I did get up and carefully make a circuit of the hall,
but did not find the food.

I was told later, that the food was in the brightly-lit
kitchen. I hadn't considered that since it was so mundane.

The side-board idea might be good if there was general
socializing after feast or dancing. But during a court,
one or both are going to suffer.

Did anyone else have trouble finding this third course?

The feast was one of the best that I have had in my
eight years in the SCA. I really like this idea of a
variety of small portions rather than a fewer bigger
portions. And it is more period for high, above-the-salt
feasts. I am eagerly awaiting Gunthar's recipes and
redactions on the SCA-Cooks mail list. There was a lively
discussion there recently on cuskynoles. It will be
interesting to see how he interpreted things.

I just wish I had been able to taste his version.

Stefan li Rous
Barony of Bryn Gwlad
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