SPCA- LONG!!! was Re: SC - Plastic Ware

[Elaine Koogler]

This camp sounds like a lot of fun.  However, as my lord and I are Baron and
Baroness of our local group, we will be camping with them.  However, we'd love
to visit with you folks and get to know you "up close and personal".  So please
let us know where you will be (we'll be up on the Serengetti, somewhere around
the N18 area) and when it would suit for us to come to visit.

Kiri

"Alderton, Philippa" wrote:

> I'm posting this to both SPCA and SCA-Cooks, so some of you may get
> duplicates.
>
> Par,
>
> SPCA (Soup Pot Cook's Association) is developing as a camp of SCA Cooks at
> Pennsic, where we're offering hospitality to all comers, more or less, with
> certain special meals limited to invitation only. Much of the plasticware
> discussion is because we're still working out how to do this in as
> unstressful a manner as possible, for all of us. Experience showed us last
> year that we need to work out some of the details regarding clean up. It has
> also showed us that some of our guests may arrive unexpectedly, with no
> feastware, so we need to have something to feed them with. I'm going to make
> my suggestions here openly, so that some of you not camping with us might
> have some input- who knows, you may be joining us yet ;-)
>
> SPCA is open to all members of SCA Cooks List as long as you pre-register.
> We are particularly welcoming to those of you who have a great deal of
> travelling to do to get to Pennsic. We'll be happy to work out
> transportation from the airport, and the loan of such facilities as we may
> have to spare in order to help minimize your luggage situation. I am
> Campmaster/ Slumlady, responsible for Land Grab, organizing the camp,
> neighbor relations, and coordinating our joint activities. If I'm doing my
> job properly, I should be seen to be doing Absolutely Nothing.
>
> Margali is in charge of coordinating our Kitchen this year. Ras has done it
> in the past, but since he won't be there this year, she has kindly agreed to
> step in and do the job. She's done similar jobs for other camps, but she
> hasn't yet been responsible for Caer Frig and our way of doing things, so
> she's tending to work too hard at it ;-)
>
> I charge a camp fee of $10 a person, Gypsies exempted. Margali is working
> things out- it is looking like it will cost about $30 a person to eat all
> War. Camp fees go for firewood, fuel, hoses, and the like, food fees go for
> perishable supplies, and this year, since we don't have Ras' awesome
> collection of home-canned goods to rely on, Margali is using her discount as
> a food services employee to help us get inexpensive, interesting foods. We
> also have whatever else people choose to bring- we're coordinating that
> right now on SPCA List.
>
> SPCA List is a List primarily designed for our campers, with certain fellow
> travellers or future members welcomed, so they know what we're up to. If
> you're thinking about joining us, let me know and I'll add you to the List-
> we have archives so you can get up to speed.
>
> Back to the plasticware.
>
> Margali, my thoughts on that are that you may, if you like, bring a supply
> of disposable feast gear. I think, this year, we should limit its usage
> strictly to guests. Camp members should be required to bring their own feast
> gear, and to be responsible for keeping it clean. I also think we need a
> donations box in camp, so people can donate food or cash. It needs to be
> obvious, but not intrusive, so people who can or can't afford to donate
> aren't embarassed, but have no question as to what it's for. Frederich,
> would you be willing to make us one? It would need to have two areas, one
> fairly small, for cash, another larger for canned foods and the like.
> Margali, it would be your responsibility to see that it's emptied regularly.
>
> As far as washing out personal feast gear:
>
> My thought would be that we need to see that we need to have hot water in
> camp at all times anyway, it would make sense to see that we have the double
> sink in a readily accessible area, and fill one half with hot or warm soapy
> water, the other half with rinse water, so people can clean their feast gear
> after meals.
>
> Causing regular hot water. Margali, since you're in charge of the kitchen,
> and Stefan, since you're in charge of the shower, and Frederich, since
> you're in charge of the sink, why don't the three of you get together and
> work out a solution which makes sure we have hot water available most of the
> time? Possibilities might include having a dedicated pot in which water is
> always heating, and any user is expected to replace the water they use,
> making it the responsibility of the dishwashers or the Cook, or finding
> someone who is willing to make that their camp contribution.
>
> As far as dishwashing, we can go one of two ways, since it is my belief that
> the Cook should NOT have to do the dishes when they're finished cooking,
> other than those they've dirtied and need to re-use. I would suggest that
> either we have a sign-up sheet, or possibly a chore list, where different
> people are responsible on different days for dishes, or we ask for a
> volunteer, whose duty to the camp is to do dishes. Either way, I think we
> need to specify that the job is to be done, or at least seen to have been
> accomplished twice a day- in the morning, by, say, 10 AM, when all community
> dishes are to be clean from last night, and by 4 PM when the Cooks intend to
> work and need them. I'm sure that swapping chores will not be a problem, as
> long as the original choreholder is aware that the responsibilitry is THEIRS
> to see that the chore is done, rather than whoever might actually do it.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Phlip
>
> Nolo disputare, volo somniare et contendere, et iterum somniare.
>
> phlip at morganco.net
>
> Philippa Farrour
> Caer Frig
> Southeastern Ohio
>
> "All things are poisons.  It is simply the dose that distinguishes between a
> poison and a remedy." -Paracelsus
>
> "Oats -- a grain which in England sustains the horses, and in
> Scotland, the men." -- Johnson
>
> "It was pleasant to me to find that 'oats,' the 'food of horses,' were
> so much used as the food of the people in Johnson's own town." --
> Boswell
>
> "And where will you find such horses, and such men?" -- Anonymous
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