SC - Cooking Laurels

[Ruthford Jimmy Wang USAFE CSS/SCOG]

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I wanted to thank everyone that replied to my query about becoming a Laurel.
I feel quite enlightened.  Let me assure those that pointed out we should be
doing this for fun and not to get the pewter "thingie" or wreath "thingie".
I most definitely like to be complimented, and will good-heartily (sometimes
grudgingly) accept critisism.  Receiving an award means having to go up in
front of everyone, which I dread more than anything (well, it's up there
with drowning, being burned alive, burning feast, etc.).  I've only done a
few feasts and so far been pretty successful.  The food was period (or
nearly so), brought out hot, and in reasonable time.  My reward is the
feeling of accomplishing a fairly challenging project, contributing to the
dream, playing in the kitchen (I don't get to do it alot), and the
compliments from the feasters.  The best compliments have been "please, no
more food" and "don't bring anymore food, or else!!".  Of course, when
threatened, just point out that you'll remember them for the next feast.

This thread has provided me quite a bit of information.  I haven't been real
good about digging deep for my research, but I'll be moving more in that
direction as time goes.  I haven't done much documenting and no A&S
competitions yet.  But I'll start by trying to document the feasts that I
prepare and get out of my shyness shell to converse with the knowledgeable
cooks in my area.  I'll even try to bribe, or pamper, or just get to know
some of the Laurels here and learn that way.  Of course, I'll seek council
on this list, as well.  Give me thyme (15-20 years or so) and I'll be
Laural-like along with the rest of you.  Yes, from many of the postings I've
seen, I've assumed most of you were Laurels.  Eventually, I want to be the
one (or part of many) answering questions about period cooking.

Roibeard

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