SC - Care of Horn?

[Stefan li Rous]

In a message dated 1/24/00 5:08:42 PM Eastern Standard Time, tori at panix.com 
writes:

<< 
 I realize it's not proper and accurate, but--if it's a
 not-enough-flavor problem, could you not pump it up with rosewater?
 (I've never even seen it, and I don't have FoC on me to see the
 recipe, so I might well be talking out my ...orifice.)
 
 Vika >>
    Oh, sure--that's part of what I meant about the blandness being easy to 
fix :-) But we'd still need actual petals in the dish, dried at least, but 
preferably fresh. Unfortunately, none of us locally could count on sufficient 
fresh roses for the time the tourney is held (Last of August in Meridies--all 
our rosebushes go on strike in the heat and don't start producing much again 
until well into September!), and finding dried petals that were organically 
raised proved surprisingly difficult. :-( Too bad--the dish sounds lovely and 
could be tweaked into tasting good, too......... But I think this is another 
instance where our style of feast, where everyone gets the same thing, thus 
requiring huge quantities of each dish, prevents most folks from using a 
particular recipe. I'd really like to do a small feast sometime where the 
service is more in keeping with the actual practices in the high Middle 
Ages--i.e., the food is prepared in smaller quantities, but in larger numbers 
of different dishes, and dinners eat those dishes that happen to be placed 
near them. I don't really want to totally revolutionize our way of doing 
things--*I* certainly like getting to taste everything! But it would be nice 
occasionally to have a chance to use dishes like Rosee that really need to be 
prepared in small quantities for one reason or another..............Maybe if 
I get to do our Spring Collegium some time--it's small enough to work for 
this idea.

                Ldy Diana
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