SC - allergy-kit questions

[Mary Morman]

>Hi all I am new to the list.<snip>

Welcome!  As already mentioned, you have more than enough food for 60
people... perhaps you could rent a larger hall or freeze some of this
bounty for the next feast?

If yours is a very late-period feast, you may include the new world items.
Here is a snippet from Gerard's Herball of 1633.  There is more info on
potatoes & maize (turkey millet) at
http://members.aol.com/renfrowcm/gerard.html


[Sweet] Potato - pages 925-926.
"Sisarum Peruvianum, siue Batata Hispanorum. Potato's.
The Potato roots are among the Spaniards, Italians, Indians, and many other
nations common and ordinarie meate; which no doubt are of mighty and nourishing
parts... being tosted in the embers they lose much of their windinesse,
especially
being eaten sopped in wine.
Of these roots may be made conserues no lesse toothsome, wholesome, and dainty
than of the flesh of Quinces: and likewise those comfortable and delicate meats
called in shops Morselli, Placentulae, and diuers other such like.
These Roots may serue as a ground or foundation whereon the cunning
Confectioner or Sugar-Baker may worke and frame many comfortable delicate
Conserues, and restoratiue sweete meates.
They are vsed to be eaten rosted in the ashes. Some when they be so rosted
infuse
them and sop them in Wine; and others to giue them the greater grace in
eating, do
boyle them with prunes, and so eate them. And likewise others dresse them
(being
first rosted) with Oyle, Vineger, and salt, euerie man according to his
owne taste
and liking. Notwithstanding howsoeuer they bee dressed, they comfort,
nourish, and
strengthen the body, procuring bodily lust, and that with greedinesse."

3 courses of 5 to 12 dishes each sounds like enough.  I'd add some sugar
sculptures, & a whole salmon in aspic.

Yours in haste,

Cindy/Sincgiefu
renfrow at skylands.net


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