SC - Kitchen Steward Panics, film at 11:00

[THL Caitlin Ruadh]

I test cooked every dish save one, and that's being test cooked tonight. I 
also put everything together, first course one night, second course the next, 
and got pretty good reviews from all concerned. There ARE no other cooking 
weenies locally (As in within an hour or so driving time), really. I'm 
teaching a couple of people, but I'm about it for period cooking.

The menu is as follows.

First course:
PROPOSED BUT MAY BE REVISED
Beef Roast w/Garlic Sauce (Mustard for high table, the Queen can't stand 
Garlic).
Meat pies (Made with meat, cheeses, spices and dried fruit).
Almond milk rice (rice cooked in almond milk)
Armored Parsnips (Like armored turnips, but the parsnips tested better)
Cabbage Apecius(sp?) (Medieval cole slaw)
Ember Day Tart.


Second Course
Mixed Greens (A Salat)
Guilded Chickens (Roast chicken guilded with egg yolk)
Strawberry illusions (Strawberries made of beef)
Barley with Onions
Peas for a non meat day (Peas cooked in almond milk)
Apple, Honey, and Hazelnut Crumble 

There will of course be bread, with honey and butter (NOT honey butter) as an 
additional filler.

And maybe.. at least for high table if not more:
Faux Numbles (Dried fruit strung together and dipped in batter and fried, 
made to look like "numbles" or guts).

In a message dated 4/5/1999 9:52:16 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
ruadh at twcny.rr.com writes:

> A question:  Have you done a test cook?  I ALWAYS invite a pile of friends
>  (8 or so) over a week or so before the event and cook the whole thing, in
>  order, in the sizes I expect to feed 8. From this I get a feel for things
>  like whether the items in some courses go together, whether the meat I
>  thought was enough really is, etc.  I specifically invite a couple of
>  cooking weenies like me, at least a couple of picky meat&potato's, no sauce
>  types, and a vegetarian and get everyone's feedback on what was good, what
>  wasn't and if there was enough. <snip>

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