SC - Fabulous Feasts

[THL Renata]

Aoife writes:

>>>Q: How does one get the book Fabulous Feasts?

A: By being a very bad girl! It's a very bad book!<<

All too true! The recipes in this book are terrible!

My very first banquet in the SCA was what we now fondly call "11th Night",
when the King of Caid changed the date of 12th Night at almost the last minute
and some visitors from our far barony of Western Seas (Hawaii) could not
change their airline reservations.

So our barony put on a banquet in their honor. All who attended were assigned
a dish to bring, with 4 or 5 people assigned to bring the same dish. ALL of
the recipes were out of Fabulous Feasts. NONE of the recipes were tested
before being assigned. (This was a long time ago, when we didin't know
better!)

Aside from the roast turkey that was served to the head table, the rest of the
feast was uniformly horrid. None of the F.F. recipes came out as anything
approaching edible.

To cap off the evening, our host that night (a duke) had made his specialty --
split pea soup -- but for some reason had thickened it with arrowroot instead
of cornstarch. The soup started to expand and soon there were 2 caldrons of
soup where there once was but 1. I think he may have scorched it as well. And
has it was served, His Grace stood up from his place at the head table and
said with great meaning, "I hope you're all enjoying the soup."

Needless to say, it was disgusting. Now, this was not the fault of the book,
but I have not been able to eat split pea soup since. 

Those few of us that survived the banquet laugh about it now.

Renata
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