SC - My Upcoming feast... An Idea

[Gedney, Jeff]

Hello the list!!!
Sorry that I haven't been active lately, I have been duecedly busy...
Guess what!!
I have finally been selected to cook a feast!!  My first! After years of
telling people "You know, I CAN cook, too...". Usually I am selected as
Autocrat or to make a sotletie. (there are so many well established decent
cooks in my area that I have gotten pigeonholed as an Autocrat). Well... I
did have to threaten to also cook a feast for an event that I would autocrat
for my Barony to notice me, but it worked!  <g>

Here is my premise. 
I plan to use well documentable and tasty recipes primarily from a single
manuscript source, so I can be sure of documentable Temporal and Geographic
concurrency. To that end, I have selected MS 163 from the Beineke Rare Book
Library at Yale. For conveniences sake I will be using the book "An
Ordinance of Pottage" by Constance Hieatt. I will use her quotations as
sources but not use her redactions, however, since she uses substitutions
and exchanges that do not appear in the manuscript. I plan to do my own
redacting, as exercise. 

Here are my questions:

1)  If I post my menus and the redactions, will the list comment on them?

2)  Does this even sound like a good idea?   

3)  There are no bread or sallet recipes in the manuscript. The manuscript
is mid 15th century English. What contemporary breads and sallets could I
add, and where can I get the original source text?

4)  Even if I have no sallet there are a few recipes for Wortes (greens) ,
basically stewed in butter. Will butter offend the vegans?

5)  Am I crazy? and have I bitten off more than I can chew?



Brandu


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