FW: SC - Yikes! I'm teaching a class!

[HICKS, MELISSA]

Bonne,

I just found out that I am traching the very same class on the 1 August
- - but to Uni kids who have no idea of cooking .......  I was just about
to post to the list, when I saw yours.

I want to start my group off "right" so does anyone have a list of foods
that can be purchased or made (with little effort) that are close or
actually documentable ......

I thought of starting really basic and showing them how to make
Sekanjabin, some biscuits (Prince Biscuit or Shrewsbury cakes) and some
sauces to go with bought roast chicken/meat (such as Cameline, Garlic,
etc from Santich).

what do people think?  Am I starting with too much assumed knowledge?

I'm mainly trying to get them away from buying a roast chook or a hunk
of cheddar to bring to a potluck !!!

Thanks and regards

Meliora
Polit, Lochac, The West

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> From: 	Bonne[SMTP:oftraquair at hotmail.com]
> Sent: 	Friday, 10 July 1998 12:26
> To: 	SCA Cooks
> Subject: 	SC - Yikes! I'm teaching a class!
> 
> Hello all:
> 
> We are having a mini-bardic as an A&S night at the end of the month.
> Usually
> our meetings end up  divided between those who attend the A&S and
> those who go
> directly to the resteraunt for dinner and socializing.  Since losing
> half the
> canton would make a bardic no fun, we decided to make it a pot luck.
> Since
> fully a third of our group is teens, operating with little in the way
> of
> cooking experience and very small budget, I'm giving a class in very
> simple
> foods that can be brought to a period pot luck. Next week. It was a
> spur of
> the moment idea at the meeting this week. I'm in need of really
> uncomplicated,
> inexpensive recipes.
> 
> We are not in the habit of having period pot-lucks here in
> Windmasters' Hill,
> so I need to speak also to the complacent who have been bringing KFC
> and
> potato salad for years. 
> 
> The handout that Anne Marie shared with me some months ago is the
> basis for
> the class.  The bit on what can be purchased from the deli and
> considered
> medieval-esque should be popular. But I am not sure of the recipes.
> My 13 yr
> old and her buddy reviewed the handout for me. Cecily cooks some, and
> decided
> that she could manage with a willing adult around. Wil doesn't cook
> and
> decided that if he was a teen with an unenthusiastic parent*, the
> recipes on
> here would be a problem.  He had problems with words like sautee and
> some
> instructions were a little sparse for him.  
> 
> (BTW, Anne Marie  re: "noodle like things"  I don't have anything on
> here but
> the Kitab al-Tibakhah and Platina recipes.  Did I accidently snip
> something
> when struggling to reformat this, or was there no redaction there in
> the first
> place?) 
> 
> I also have a short collection of recipes from a website relating to
> the SCA
> Teen list.  (if you are curious, http://www.dubiouspub.com/scateen/
> is all
> the name my daughter can recall at the moment) They appear to be from
> the
> Knowne Worlde handbook and possibly from the Florigelum, some might be
> local
> favorites from whereever the teen who donated it live.  "Aethylynde's
> Ginger
> Bread" is described as SCA play-dough!  Wil felt less challenged with
> these,
> but was still thinking he'd sooner get cheese and bread from the local
> fancy
> grocery. 
> 
> If anyone has sure-fire recipe even a stick jock wannabe can cook, I'd
> love to
> hear it. If anyone had taught teens other than their own, please pass
> on tips
> on that subject as well!
> 
> Many thanks, 
> 
> Bonne
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