SC - Artemisia Crown Tourney Feast
Sue Clemenger
mooncat at in-tch.com
Fri Apr 14 21:38:26 PDT 2000
Hey, I was there and _I_ don't remember any sekjaben! Darn! When did you serve
it...lunch or dinner?
(bye the way, everybody, she did _real good_!)
- --Maire
Karen O wrote:
> Greetings one and all!
>
> Finally had my chance to be Head Cook, and I did well. I fed 150 at
> Feast, and more than that for the Side Board. (gate tells me the tally was
> ~ 300 people) The Side Board (lunch) consisted of: Lentil with Ham Soup,
> Barley Beef Soup, and Chickpea Soup (with a Veg variation). Meat Pies,
> Ember Day Tarts, Viaunde of Cypres Ryalle, oranges & strawberries, olives,
> bread, butter, honey, and Welsh Cakes.
>
> Feast consisted of two Courses: Baked Ham with 2 mustards, Golden
> Leeks& Onions, Pasternakes & Scyrrts, Hony Douse and Gyngerbrede. Asparogos
> with Lemon, Roast beef Aujus, grilled mushrooms & horseradish sauce,
> Barley & Funges, Syrosye, wafers. Bread butter, Sekajaben, boiled eggs &
> a venison sausage as "appi-teasers" on the tables just prior to feast.
>
> The Sekajaben was a variation: using dried spearmint to make a tea, and
> then making the simple sugar with that & adding the wine vinegar. Used
> Oxtail for the barley beef soup, and most everything came from a period
> source. The vegs werre in their own broth or I used a veg broth/stock.
>
> The hot food went out hot, the cold stuff went out cold, everyone was
> full to groaning, and I did not under-estimate the meat (I was worrying I
> hadn't enough) at 3 persons/pound. ALL of the kitchen staff had a break
> about mid-aftrnoon to watch the final round coz we were that far ahead of
> schedule. Many many compliments for the efforts -- only one main
> criticism from one person: not enough of the venison sausage --which was a
> last minute gift from a member of the populace -- something not planned at
> all.
>
> I wonder when my next one will be?
>
> Caointiarn
>
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