SC - Slipping them a period feast

[Ron and Laurene Wells]

All I can say is WOW!!  That is one HUGE menu!!  I want to go to this feast!!!

- -Laurene

At 12:33 PM 7/21/2000 -0500, you wrote:

>Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 09:13:33 -0500 (CDT)
>From: Jeff Heilveil <heilveil at uiuc.edu>
>Subject: SC - Slipping them a period feast
>
>Jadwiga asked:
>"Postulating a group that isn't interested in period food, or has been
>turned off period food by bad cooking or 'show-off' cooking. Suppose you
>wanted to serve them a feast all of period food-- but not tell them it's
>period. ('We have secretly replaced their mundane food with medieval
>recipes....')
>
>What would you serve? And what would you CALL the recipes you served?"
>
>This is VERY much the case in my barony.  Even though I pulled off a
>period feast that came back empty dished, the success rate of feasts in
>this barony sounds limited to my one.  Then again, the baron doesn't
>like going to feasts and so strongly discourages (read "places stumbling
>blocks...") any sort of feast, period or no.  It doesn't help that we
>maybe have enough active members to half staff a kitchen...
>
>While I don't like having to hide period food, I have found times when I
>would like to...   So, for my "slip 'em a period feast" feast, I would
>serve:
>Steaks (Le Managier talks about them)
>Turnip au gratin (Armored turnips)
>Ravioli (To make ravioli, from Sabina)
>Burgers (appetizer of Meat, Platina)
>Roullade (There's one that sounds REALLY close in Platina...  one of the
>           meat rolls)
>Mac and Cheese (with flat noodles.  like ...  Original in either Plyn
>                 Delit or Medieval Kitchens)
>Falafel (A counterfeit of ...  pg 83 or so in the Miscellany, from
>         Andalusion)
>Liver Pate'
>Spinach tarts (Also from Sabina)
>Dumplings (White dish from Platina)
>Deviled eggs (To make stuffed eggs.  Ras sent out that one...  it is SO
>                 GOOD!)
>Salad (Salat... weak for a veggies, but I'm blanking at the moment)
>Cherry Bread pudding (Chirseye)
>Apple-walnut tart (from Ein Bouch von guter Speise)
>Spice cookies/shortbread (Fine cakes... I can't remember the original
>                         source, it's in To the Queen's Taste)
>Nut brittle (Hulwa)
>Marzipan (Marchpanne)
>Date Balls (Hais)
>rice pudding (Rys Potage)
>Assorted Fruit
>Compote
>Mead
>Beer (Small Beer)
>Mulled Wine (Hippocras)
>Hard Cider (Ciser)
>Hard Pear Cider (Perry)
>
>
>It's a start anyway....
>
>Cu drag,
>Bogdan