SC - Child volunteers

[LrdRas at aol.com]

In a message dated 4/10/00 11:46:35 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
macdairi at hotmail.com writes:

<< And one of your child volunteers went on to produce the boar's head at the 
 schola, one of the better executed recipes. >>

I presume you mean Jeff? Yes, he has been working in my kitchen for about 8 
years now. He is currently 18 years old and did a wonderful presentation of a 
Boar's head for the Schola working directly from the actual recipe in the 
manuscript. Including the use of egg yolk and parsley juice for endoring it. 

Just before he served it, he was rushing around to change tunics and to put 
on a clean Confed household tabard and to generally make himself presentable. 
He ignited the flames from the mouth of boar and proudly carried it through 
the darkened hall toward high table. Unfortunately for the poor lad, the 
Queen had departed the table for important matters and he set this huge 
flaming yellow and green boar's head surrounded with pine boughs in front of 
the only vegetarian at high table.

I am very proud of Jeff who is now studying microbiology at Bloomsburg 
University and can't cook if it does not go in the microwave when he is at 
home. Give him a recipe, redacted or not, at a period feast and he will do a 
superb job with it with little or no intervention. 

The first time he volunteered to help me cook he was 10 years old and I was 
cooking out of a giant cauldron on a camp fire. I set him to hauling wood 
pieces to me, many of which seemed to be as big as he was. He authorized last 
year and fought his first Pennsic. He is proficient with needle and thread 
and has an acute ear for music. He is a perfect example of the chivalry 
exhibited by children raised in an SCA environment.

Thanks for the memories. :-)

Ras