SC - My Second Feast
david friedman
ddfr at best.com
Mon Dec 13 17:22:46 PST 1999
At 2:26 PM -0800 12/13/99, Lilinah biti-Anat wrote:
>It was a "proper" medieval feast, with dancing, singing, story
>telling, game playing, juggling, fire eating, etc. between courses.
>First course went out around 4 PM, then subsequent courses went out
>at intervals of 1-1/2 hours, and the meal ended around 10 PM.
...
>Then during clean up, one of the elders of the SCA came into the
>kitchen asking who'd be Kitchen Steward for the feast next year.
>Well, i (was) volunteered. Eek! Fortunately i have around 11 months
>to prepare and get some more experience :-)
Just to make your job a little easier... . So far as I can tell,
14th and 15th century English and French feasts typically had either
two or three courses. Le Menagier gives some dinners with more
platters than that--I think in one case six--but I'm not sure if they
were all separate courses.
David/Cariadoc
http://www.best.com/~ddfr/
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