SC - Re: sca-cooks V1 #351

[Ron and Laurene Wells]

>In a message dated 97-10-13 16:15:06 EDT, you write:
>
><< I did well enough to  bravely volunteer as 2nd Cook >>
>
>Conmgradulations! :-)
>
>Which btings me to the subject of "The Clash of the Peans" this weekend. I
>recieved my check finally for the purchase of the food for lunch. What would
>be some nice food to serve to meat and potatoes people that would be
>completely period and appeal to this type of person?
>
>
>This is the first time I have done "lunch" and I could use all the help I can
>get. King Ingvar and the Queen will be attending. They specifically made it a
>point to call ahead and advise people that they were meat and potatoes people
>and "strange" food was not in their repertoire of enjoyment. 
>
>Bearing this in mind, I would like suggestions as to what extraordinarily
>bizaare and decidedly non-potato/meat food that is period could be served to
>their Sylvan Highnesses that a meat and potatoe person would be horrified to
>know they had eaten and actually ENJOYED" it. It should be decidedly unsimple
>and awesone to the feaster to the point of "Yick, I don't want to eat this
>s**t but everyone's watching so I have no choise!" to "WOW! Are there
>seconds? :-)" 
>
>
>Any help would be greatly appreciated. I have $1.25 / per person (max. 150)
>to work with.
>
>Ras

Okey Dokey. I love Yngvar and Caryl, so feel free to tell them this was my
idea if you get any heat for it.

It's Illusion food time, folks! Serve them meat and potatoes. Meat: Remeber
your Ham en Croute of a few years ago? Make the pastry shaped to look like a
chicken. Gild it green/blue in the oven.  Make a neck of pastry and tail
feathers out of pastry on thin wires you can poke in later, to turn it into
a peacock. Hey, it's ham, a perfect lunch food. How can they complain? Serve
with fresh buns, butter, chutney, or picalilli, and mustard served in those
swans I was talking about. Make a Nest from lettuce, shredded, for your
peacock, and vegetable eggs (turnips, parsnips, large carrots, and anything
else that will "pare" easily to make oval eggs. Parboil them, but be careful
to not overdo it or they will loose their shape). When people ask what's for
lunch, tell them you're roasting peacock, and it tastes "just like chicken".
HeeHee. From you, they'll believe it. Who else has served the unsuspecting
folks Goat? Emu? Bear? Snake? Since ham and biscuits is essentially a meat
and potatoes food, you can't really go wrong.

Potatoes: Easily made from marzipan and dusted/rolled in cocoa powder to
look like russets (use Carob if you dislike the chocolate thing, but it's
not as brown. Besides, It's a joke).

Now, Caryl has a picky (easily upset) stomach, and does not eat breakfast.
She may well be very hungry but choosey by lunch time. She likes small
amounts of starches and Cola (coke being the preferred beverage, I believe.
Not diet. She brings her own) to break her fast. She has whims,
too....champagne, chocolate, and roses. If you make her something special,
don't be offended if she eats it sparingly. She really does have a very
sensitive stomach. Yngvar is another matter. If you put it in front of him,
and he can recognise it, he will eat it. Fruit is a good one. I believe they
both could care less about vegetables.

Last idea: For Morguhn and Meirwen a few years ago we made a chocolate
cabbage (they specifically said NO CABBAGE, you see. We HAD to serve it for
dessert!). The innards were chocolate cake. Melted chocolate was painted on
6-8 raw cabage leaves fairly thickly and allowed to chill. The cabbage
leaves were carefully removed, and the chocolate leaf was placed on the
upside-down bowl-shaped cake  and stuck down with chocolate icing.It looked
like a real cabbage, only chocolate! We added the loose outer leaves to make
it more realistic. Wild Raves!


HTH

Aoife

============================================================================

To be removed from the SCA-Cooks mailing list, please send a message to
Majordomo at Ansteorra.ORG with the message body of "unsubscribe SCA-Cooks".

============================================================================