SC - A different kind of historical recreation

[Huette von Ahrens]

Elaina,

What part of Caid did you live in?  Because I was
doing
feasts back then and the only banquets in restaurants
that I can remember were in Nordwache
(Fresno/Bakersfield area).  I was doing period
banquets in quite a few church halls in Angels (San
Gabriel Valley). Lyondemere (coastal areas of Los
Angeles) put on many period banquets.  Califia (San
Diego) also
put on many period banquets.

Yes, I have to admit the Fab Feasts was my first
period cookbook.  But I soon abandoned it when I was
given Kings Taste and Queens Taste.  They were soon
followed
by Dining with William Shakespeare and Pleyn Delit.
My first banquets were take from these last four
books.
It wasn't until Duke Cariadoc moved to Caid that I was
exposed to the originals and the concept of actually
redacting my own recipes, for which I will be
eternally grateful to him.

Huette


- --- Mary Morman <memorman at oldcolo.com> wrote:
> In A.S. XII-XIII I moved from the West (where we did
> not do feasts) to
> Caid (where we did picnics and banquets in
> restaurants) to the
> East/Atlantia where I first met actual SCA feasting.
>  There were very few
> sources available.  The only one I actually remember
> holding in my hand
> was a very early edition of Cariadoc's Renaissance
> Cookbook Collection.
> Food was generally "perioid" rather than what I
> would now call period.
> Roast meat, avoid potatoes and tomatoes, good home
> brewed mead and beer,
> honey saffron quiche, savory toasted cheese, hearty
> soups and stews with
> meat and carrots and barley.  I can try to did
> through old papers and find
> some menus from A.S. XIII-IV for feasts that I
> cooked.  Let me know.
> 
> Elaina
> 
> On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, Lurking Girl wrote:
> 
> > [Wow.  Finally caught up with the backlog from
> Pennsic.  2400 messages.]
> > 
> > For my cooking class, I have been assigned to do a
> menu which is partially
> > based on SCA cooking technology of 20 years ago. 
> Since the only kitchen
> > I was allowed to use at that time was in Barbie's
> Dream Home, my teacher
> > said I should ask people who were around then. 
> (Unfortunately, those
> > I've asked so far don't seem to really notice what
> they eat at events...)
> > 
> > So--can anyone tell me what might have been served
> at a typical feast
> > in ASXIII?  What were the sources everyone was
> using?  And what was 
> > considered bleeding-edge experimentation?
> > 
> > Thanks much,
> > 
> > Vika
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> >       Victoria Swann * tori at panix.com *
> http://www.panix.com/~tori
> > LNH: Lurking Girl * SCA: Vika (Ostgardr) * WB:
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> >
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