SC - meat days and fast days - MIXED?

[Susan Fox-Davis]

I'm the only feast cook I know who ever paid attention to fast days in these
parts, and myself not even Catholic.  I did ask a local SCA 'saint' sign an
indulgence for the event;  she went so far as to calligraph and illuminate it
for me, sainted lady!  My last feast in June had a 'penitents menu' available,
enough non-meat dishes in each course to ensure that the vegetarians got fed.
Only afterwards did I find out that one of the visiting Royals had been
vegetarian... we looked brilliant!

Selene Colfox
Caid
selene at earthlink.net


Berengaria wrote:

> I, too, tend to make a number of vegetarian dishes when serving a feast,
> but I do it with bad conscience.  My impression is that if food was
> being served on a meat day - no attempt would be made to avoid meat, butter,
> milk, and eggs.  If it were being served on a fast day, then EVERYTHING
> would avoid one or more of those ingredients (depending on the degree of
> the fast).  I just can't see period cooks -mixing- their feast day and
> fast day dishes!  <snip>



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