[Ravensfort] Kudos and a small correction...was...A & S Report

Kief av Kiersted sirkief at yahoo.com
Wed May 5 12:12:39 PDT 2004


Heilsa Mirabelis...

Nice write up...! The Persian Tent was/is a great idea...I'll try
and spend some time there when ya'll set it up again... The
Persian tea/mint drink is also a 'period' form of
GatorAid....*LoL* I would love to sample some of your coffee next
time...

Oh...Charlotte/Gynn, in her guise as Dominique, is an
"Excellency" not a "Mistress" since she is a Baroness of the
Court of Ansteorra and not a Laurel nor Pelican.

Your good neighbor...

Kief

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--- Mirabelis <mirabelis at johnthekiwi.com> wrote:
> Greetings!  Ok I have gotten into more A&S than I think with
> this whole
> Persian tent thing.  I have been trying to get some embroidery
> done for
> a dress I'm making, the embroidery is taking forever!  So to
> give my
> mind something else to work on I've been trying to have period
> foods,
> and I'm sure that's got to be an A&S thing.  We had homemade
> baklava
> from Lord Segird, and we had stuffed grape leaves by Mistress
> Dominique,
> but I think the bit I liked the most was my bit ;)  I made some
> Sekanjabin, what is that you say?  Well it's a Persian Mint
> tea, I got
> the info from Stefan's files and made up some tea at the event.
>  I
> forgot to dilute it down with water and what I actually had was
> the
> syrup that is used for the tea.  So, now I'm on a mission to
> make syrup
> and bottle it so that it can be used in the future, just
> diluted down.
> this can also be drunk hot or cold, so I'm pretty excited about
> that.
> now its on to getting some bottles and figuring out how to
> bottle the
> syrup...good think I have Segird as a neighbor he is
> invaluable!
> 
> The other thing I was working on was Turkish coffee.  Apart
> from having
> the proper serving pots I have no idea how to do Turkish
> coffee, but
> again thanks to Stefan's files :-)  
> 
> And I don't drink coffee!  So it was pretty difficult to get a
> taste
> test.  I have found that the Persians used lots and lots and
> lots of
> sugar, so it was hard for my Kiwi to tell me how the coffee was
> because
> he doesn't like his with sugar, so here we go..I'm an on a
> mission to
> perfect the Turkish coffee.  If you are a coffee drinker and
> you see me
> cooking some up, come by and tell me what you think :-)  theres
> a whole
> element of boiling the coffee at the right temp to make sure it
> doesn't
> burn and you get froth.I was frothless until the last batch. 
> Some turks
> believe that it is an insult to not have froth with your
> coffee.so, come
> by for some froth!  We are also learning a bit about
> tasseography.what
> is that you say?  It's the art, if you can call it that, of
> reading tea
> leaves and coffee grounds.  Let me tell ya, there is plenty of
> grounds
> in Turkish coffee :-)  what does your future hold for you?
> 
> I also made some figs in syrup.  Lol, I don't really like figs
> either,
> but I was told the figs in syrup was delightful.  I'm on a
> mission to
> find figs and can them, I've never canned anything before!! And
> a search
> for walnuts and their hulls!  So if anyone has a fig tree or a
> walnut
> tree lurking about I'd be interested in their fruits!  The
> whole tent
> thing has opened up a huge avenue for my persona and I love it!
>  Theres
> no end to the things you can learn!  
> 
> So, if you see the Persian tent at another event, it will be a
> huge act
> of god!  Lol, we know for sure we will be at all the RF events,
> so come
> by and taste test my coffee, if you dare ;)
> 
>  
> 
> Cheers!
> Mirabelis



	
		
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