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 Lady Katherine McGuire wrote:

>   There was an incident, at another group's Imperial War last year.  A entry
> was made of a strawberry jam, I would have called it a compote.  As part of
> the documentation there was a quote from a on line dictionary that stated
> that a strawberry was found that was as "big as Queen Elizabeth's head" and
> the date was given as 1565.

If the cutoff date for the Adrian Empire is 1500, that indeed would not qualify
as acceptable documentation.  I commend this page as an in-depth yet accessible
source on the history of the Strawberry:
<http://www.nal.usda.gov/pgdic/Strawberry/book/bokthree.htm>

>    Now in my opinion, this is a error.  I looked up the reference but could
> not find it.  Maybe it was my bad computer skills or?  But in the same A/S
> tournament there was an entry of strawberry cordual.  In this documentation
> it was stated that the average size of strawberries, in the period, were
> about the size of the a women's thumb nail. The entrant had used the varity
> of wild strawberries available, and had gone out of her way to make the
> entry  as "period"  as possible.
>   The first entrant was "upset" that her jam did not beat the cordual, and
> kept saying that it needed to be rejudged.  This was deigned by the person
> running the tournament, on the grounds that the judges were all A/S Knights
> equivalent to Laurels in the SCA.

Phooey, I've gotten upset with Adrian arts judging to the point where I won't
compete at all.  What part of 'primary source' don't these people get?  *sigh*
Well, I agree that the judging was probably correct in the first place, but
better they should have cited weak documentation, if that was the case.  Mind
you,  I don't enter contests in the SCA much either, I run them instead.

Selene Colfox, in either game
selene at earthlink.net