SC - (Fwd) [SCA-CAID:12393] Re: Judging Cooking

[Jeanne Stapleton]

I'm forwarding this on as another anecdote in the "mint in dishes" 
meta-discussion--tibor obviously responded on the Caid list, but I 
thought the story was funny.

Gunthar, please tell me if I'm right out of line, but it seems to me 
that some humorous anecdotes of stuff we've come up with while trying 
to redact and weird things that have happened at feasts would be 
worthwhile as a little seasoning on this list.  Count me as one who 
enjoys cooking, whether in the SCA or not, and someone who is 
interested primarily in reading about redactions and cooking 
techniques to improve my own feast preparation, tourney cooking and 
overall SCA food creation; I've been following some of the discussion 
about "what is this list really for" and I regret seeing that people 
must feel bad one way or the other.  Maybe if we had some occasional 
stories of roads we wandered down with our re-creations, it would 
become more obvious to all readers that we can laugh at 
ourselves--that we can have fun, learn, and have fun by learning.

More in another post.

Berengaria

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Date:          Thu, 29 May 1997 21:56:22 -0700 (PDT)
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From:          Ronna Birkenhagen <ronna at aloha.net>
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Subject:       [SCA-CAID:12393] Re: Judging Cooking

Mark Schuldenfrei wrote:
> 
>   At 11:17 AM 5/28/97 -0700, you wrote: (Snipped)
>     The minted rice was so strong
>   with mint than several persons ran out of the room after their
>   first bite.
> 
I wasn't one of these cooks with this particular dish, but I made the
exact same mistake once.  I was trying to redact Tabouleh into a very
large scale for 120 people at a feast, and substituted mint extract
instead of fresh mint leaves because of the cost and prep time
savings. My trial came out pretty okay when I tasted it.  But mint
extract soaks into couscous unevenly.  So half the people went Yum!
and the other half went "eww, this tastes like toothpaste!". Live and
learn. Arianne

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