SC - Recipies

[Nancy Santella]

These are the recipies from my first feast. I was in tears 15 min. before
Feast was to be served, but as I put the violets on the sallet, it looked so
beautiful, I felt better and every thing went well.


Queens Rapier Champion Tourney
May 8, 1999

Spring Feast Recipes


Bread with Chive Butter and Raspberry Butter

First Course

Funges in Pastry
Le Menagier Paris

“Mushrooms of one night be the best and they be little and red within and
closed atthe  top; and they must be peeled and then washed in hot water
and parboiled and if you wishto  put them in a pasty add oil, cheese
 and spice powder.

Serves 8

1 ¼ lb.  Fresh Mushrooms
2 – 3  Tbs. Olive Oil
½ cup  Ricotta Cheese
2 Tbs.  Grated Parmasan Cheese
2 tsp.  Powder Douce (Nutmeg, Coriander, Cinnaman, and Clove)
Salt and Pepper to Taste
2 Tbs. Olive Oil

Pastry to make dumplings: wonton wrappers
Butter spray to bake

      Slice and saute Mushrooms in Olive Oil. Mix Mushrooms with Cheeses,
Olive Oil,
and the Powder Douce. Season with Salt and Pepper. Fill the Pastries-wonton
wrappers
, moisten and pinch edges sealling them well. Spray baking sheet with Butter
Spray.
Arrange dumplings on sheet and lightly spray top with  Butter Spray.
Bake for 25 mins. at 350 deg.


A Garlic Sauce with Walnuts
Platina  book 8

To almonds or walnuts that have been coursely ground add as much
cleaned garlic as you like and likewise, as need be, grind them up well,
sprinkle them all the while so they do not make oil. When they are
ground up put in white bread crumbs softened in juice of meat or fish,
and grind again. And if it seems too stiff it can be softened easily in the
 same juice. ( See next recipe )

A more Colored Garlic Sauce
Platina book 8

Prepare this in the same way as above. But do not moistenit in water or
juice, but in must of dark grapes, squeezed by hand and cooked
down for half an hour. The same can be done with juice of cherries.

1/8 cup Walnuts
6 cloves  Garlic
¼ cup  Bread Crumbs
about 1 ½ cups Grape Juice, boil it down
4 – 6 Tbs.  Vinegar
¼ cup Water

     In food processor grind Nuts and Garlic. Soak Bread Crumbs in
Grape Juice and Vinegar. Mix with Nuts and Garlic. Thin with Water.
Serve.


Barbe Robert ( Sauce )
( A 1583 cookbook quoted by Pichon et  al, p. 109 )

Take small onions fried in lard ( or butter according to the day ),
verjuice, vinegar, mustard, small spices and salt. Boil everything
together.

1 tsp. rinsed and minced Capers
2 tsp. minced Green Onions ( just the whites )
2 tsp. fine ground prepared Mustard
½ stick Butter
1 tsp. Cider Vinegar or Verjuice

Mix all, over heat.


 Bean Soup
“This Good Food “ by Brother Victor- Antoine d’Avila-Latourrette

1 lb. Dry White Beans
10 cups Water
2 Onions
2 Carrots
2 Leeks
2 Celery stalks
3 cloves Garlic
6 Tbs. Olive Oil
a few of Spinach leaves
2 (Vegetable) Bouillon Cubes
Salt and Pepper to taste
3 Tbs. Parsley, finely chopped

1. Soak the dry Beans in cold water for at least 5 hours, then rinse them
well and place them in a large soup pot  with the water.

2. Thinly cut the Onions, Carrots, Leeks, Celery and Spinach, and mince the
Garlic well. Add all this to the a soup; also the Olive Oil and Bouillon
cubes.

3. Cook the soup over a medium heat for about 60 minutes, stirring from time
to time. Simmer for about 10 minutes more.

4. Add Salt and Pepper according to taste, and the Parsley. Cook for another
5 minutes and serve hot.



Sallet of all kinds of Herbs and Flowers
“The Good Huswifes Hewell”

Take your hearbes and picke them very fine into faire water, and picke
Your flowers by themselves, and wash them all cleane, and swing hem in a
strainer, and when you put them into a dish, mingle them with Cowcumbers
or Lemmans payred and sliced, and scrape Suger , and put into vineger
and Oyle, and throw the flowers on the top of the Sallet, and of every
sorte of the afore said thinges, and garnish the dish about with the
foresaide
thinges and hard Egges boyled and laid about the dish and upon the sallet.


1 head of Butter Lettuce
1 – 2 cups  Spring Mix
¼ cup  Mint Leaves
¼ cup  Lemon Balm
½ cup Flower Petals
1 Cucumber sliced very thin

2  hard boiled Eggs sliced

4 Tbs.  Olive Oil
3 Tbs.  White Wine Vinegar
½ tsp. Salt
1/8 tsp. Pepper
½ tsp.  Brown Sugar

     Wash Lettuce, Spring Mix and Herb Leaves in cold water and pat dry or
use salad
Spinner; refrigerate. Rinse Flower Petals in a bowl of cold water and gently
pat dry;
refrigerate.

       Tear Lettuce into bite size pieces combine with Spring Mix and Herbs.
Add
Cucumber Slices and toss.

        Mix together the Olive Oil, Vinegar, Salt , Pepper and Brown Sugar,
stir until
Blended. Add to Salad, toss. Mix Flower Petals ( saving some for garnish).
Garnish
With Flower Petals and Eggs.



Second Course

Grete Pye
“Two Fifteenth-Century Cookery Books”

Take faire yonge beef, And suet of a fatte beste, or of Muton, and hak
 all this on a borde small; and caste therto pouder of peper and salt; and
whan it is small hewen, put hit in a bolle, And medle hem well; then make
a faire large Cofyn, and couche som of this stuffur in. Then take Caoins,
Hennes, Mallardes, Connynges, and parboile hem clene; take wodekokkes,
Teles, grete briddes, and plom hem in a boiling pot; And hen
Couche al this fowle in the Coffyn, And put in euerych of hem a
Quantite of pouder of peper and salt. Then take mary, harde
yolkes of egges, Dates cutte in ij peces, reisons of coraunce, prunes,
hole cloves, hole maces, Canell and saffron. But first, whan thoug
hast cowched all thi foule, ley the remenaunt of thyne other stuffur of
beef a-bought hem, as thou thenkest goode; and then strawe on hem this:
dates, mary, and reysons, &c. And then close thi Coffyn with a lydde of
the same paast, And puttte hit in the oven, And late hit bake ynough;
but be ware, or thou close hit, that there come no saffron nygh the brinkes
there-of, for then hit wol neuer close.
(Harl. 4016. P.76)



Pastry:
½ cup Butter
3 Tbs. Lard
3 cups Flour
½ tsp. Salt
6 Tbs. cold Water

     Mix Flour and Salt, blend Butter and Lard with Flour till crumbly. Make
a well in
mixture, adding water slowly, till dough pulls away from bowl. Divide into
two paddies,
and refridgerate.

Filling:
½ lb.  Pork Roast sliced
1 lb.  minced Beef
2 tbs. shredded Suet ?
3 hard boiled Egg Yolks, crumbled
Spice Mixture:
   ¼ tsp. each of ground Cinnamon, Mace, and Clove
2 oz.   Dates
2 oz. Currants
4 oz.  Prunes
¾ cup Broth
1 Tbs. Rice Flour

       Preheat oven at 450 deg.F.
       Soak Fruits in water. Mix minced Beef, Suet, Egg Yolks and one half
the Spice
Mixture. Add remaining Spice Mixture to drained Fruit and toss.
        Roll out a crust of Pastry. Fill bottom with half the minced Beef
mixture, then
cover this with half of Fruit mixture. Layer sliced Pork over this, then
remaining
Fruit followed by remaining Beef mixture.
         Heat Broth and stir in Rice Flour till slightly thickened, pour
over all. Cover
with top crust.
         Bake for 15 min., reduce heat to 325 deg.F. and bake for 45-50 min.
longer.




Spiced Red Cabbage
Anderson, pp. 250-51

1lb. Red Cabbage
1 ¼ tsp. Olive Oil
1 ¼ tsp. Sugar
¼ lb. Apples
¼ lb. Onions
1/3 cup Red Wine Vinegar
1 ½  Bay Leaves
1/8 tsp.
salt 1 ¼ cups Red Wine

     Saute onions and apples in oil, then add cabbage and cook for
 about  5 min. Add remaining ingredients and cook for 25 mins.
Refrigerate until needed, serve cold.


Fruit Kabobs

1 Honey Dew Mellon
4 Pears
1 Cantaloupe
½ cup Honey
Powdered Ginger

      Cut Fruit into 1-inch pieces and skewer on bamboo skewers. Mix
together Honey and
Ginger. Pour Honey mixture over Fruit and serve.



Cariota
Platina  5

Roast carrots in the coals, then peel them, claening off the ashes, and
cut them up. Put in a dish with oil, vinegar, a bit of wine; scatter a
few mild herbs on top.

Choose small even carrots, cut off any pointed tips.

1 lb. Carrots
2 – 3 Tbs. Olive Oil
2 – 3 tsp. White Wine Vinegar
2 – 3 tsp.  White Wine
2 – 3 Tbs. chopped fresh Herbs: Parsley, Dill, Chives, Thyme
Salt and Pepper to taste

Scrube and scrape Carrots, and brush lightly with oil. Roast in a 400 deg.
oven. Slice
into a serving dish and dress with minced Herbs, Oil, Vinegar, Wine, and
Salt and
Pepper. Serve.



Third Course
Makerouns
Curye on Inglish,  p.119

Makerouns, Take and make a thynne foyle of dowh, and kerve it
On peces, and cast hym on boiling water & seeth it wele. Take chese
and grate it, and butter imelte, cast bynethen and abouven as losyns;
and serve forth.

Makerouns, Take a piece of thin pastry dough and cut it in pieces,
Place in boiling water and cook. Take grated cheese, melted butter
and arrange in layers like lasagna; serve.

1 lb. Egg Noodles
1 Tbs. Oil
Large pinch of Salt
1 cup grated Cheese
½ cup Butter

      Boil Noodles with Oil and Salt until al dente ( tender-crisp ). Drain
well. In a
 serving dish or platter place some melted Butter and Cheese. Lay noodles on
top
and add more Butter and Cheese. Serve as is or continue adding layers of
Butter,
Cheese and Noodles.



To Boil a Capon with Orange and Lemmons
“the Good Huswife’s Handmaide for the Kitchen”, 1594

Take Orenges or Lemmons pilled, and cutte them the long way, and
If you can keepe your cloves whole and put them into your best
Broth of mutton or Capon with prunes and currants and three or
Fowre dates, and when these have beene well sodden put whole pepper,
Great mace,a good peece of suger, and some rosewater and either white
Or claret wine, and let all these seeth together a while, and so serve
It upon soppes with your capon.

2 ½ lbs. Chicken Thighs        1 cup White Wine       ½ cup Currants
1 Tbs. Olive Oil                     4 Oranges                    ¼ tsp.
Salt
1 Tbs. Butter                                 peeled + cut          ½ tsp.
whole Peppers
2 cups Chicken Broth         4 Prunes                      ½ tsp. whole
Cloves
1 tsp. Rosewater                      4 Dates                        ½ tsp.
Mace

       In a large dutch oven, heat the Oil andButter until hot. Season
Chicken with Salt
and Pepper and place in pan. Brown well on all sides. Soak Prunes, Dates and
Currants
in ½ cup of broth, then coursely chop. Add 1 ½ cups of the Chicken Broth,
Rosewater
and Wine and simmer for 20 minutes. Add the Fruit, Salt, and Mace. Place
Peppercorms and Cloves in a cheese cloth bag and add to stock. Continue to
simmer
For another 15 minutes or until the Chicken is tender. Remove the cheese
cloth bag.
Serve in large bowls with strips of fried bread.

Black Porray
“Le Menagier de Paris”

Black porray is made with strips of spiced bacon. The porray
should be picked over, washed, then cut up and blanched in
boiling water, then fried in fat fron the bacon slices; Then you
moisten it with boiling water- yet some say that if it is washed
in cold water it is darker and more black- and you should set
upon each bowl two slices of bacon.

2 lbs. young Spinach
½ lb. Bacon

        Pick over and wash Spinach, then chop them and boil for three to
five minutes
In a large pot of boiling water; drain , and run cold water over them, then
roll in paper
towels to dry as much as possible. Meanwhile, fry the bacon strips until
brown and
crisp, set aside. Add Spinach to fat and stir over medium low heat, for
several mins.,
until wilted and dark in color. Top with bacon before serving.

Sekanjabin
from Stephan's Florilegium

4 cups Sugar
2 ½ cups Water
1 cup Red WineVinegar
hand-ful of fresh Mint

    Dissolve Sugar in Water. Bring to boil, add Vinegar. Reduce heat and
simmer
about 20-25 min. Remove from heat. Add Mint and let cool discard Mint and
 bottle. The syrup keeps indefinitely at room temp.
      To serve dilute with water to taste.      5 or 10 parts water to 1
part syrup.


Crisps
>From  the mother of Canstance Waite

Certainly. You need a rosette iron to make them. It is a cheap little tool
and cost less then $5 when I bought mine. The recipe is 1 cup flour, 1/2
cup evaporated milk, 1/2 cup water, 1 tsp. sugar, 1/2 tsp. salt, and 1 egg.
Mix together and let sit for 1/2 hour. Meanwhile heat about 3 inches of oil
in a broad pan. Dip iron in hot oil for about 30 seconds. Dip iron into
batter. Do not cover the top of the iron. Dip into hot oil Loosen cookie
from iron. Turn to cook other side. Repeat. Drain on paper towel once
removed from hot oil. When all cookies are done dust with powdered sugar.
Store in a loosely covered container for up to therr or four days. Do not
freeze. Makes about 36 cookies.
Constance

Crème Fraiche
Cream and sugar to taste.
(Was actually supposed to be whipped cream,
a good mistake)

Fresh Strawberries






























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