SC - Norse Event @ L'anse Aux Meadows

[Micaylah]

Good Sunday morning All,

I know I don't post often anymore but I thought I would share this with you
to perhaps help these gentles out in their endeavour to make the "demo" as
authentic as possible. A group of fellow Ealdormerians is heading to
Newfoundland in September, by invitation of the Nfld government, to
re-create a small Norse village. They will however need to eat. I give you
the following as a discussion initializer....

Thanks guys, miss you all

Micaylah

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> ahem. good day. greetings.
>  I wanted to tap the connected brain for ideas.
> A small group of us (14) norse re-enactors are heading out to
> Newfoundland in September to be one of the groups at the
> Norstead site, an additional interpretive site to accompany the
> World Heritage site at L'Anse aux Meadows for the Millenium
> celebrations.
>  We will be "interpreting the Viking Age" while we are there, which
> also means cooking our meals in front of the public. We will be
> able to use our varying norse cookware, fry-pans, griddles,
> cauldrons, cooking forks.
>  So far, I've been drying mushrooms and leeks towards a sort of
> Knarr-Suisse soup mix. There will be limited raw materials available
> out there, but nowhere what we'd find in the smallest town in
> Ontario. (believe me, I was mailing the lad lettuce and tomatoes
> while he was out there!) We can probably get basic meats. Butter
> is iffy.Fresh isn't overly likely.
>
>  Ideally, once we work out our timetables, we may only be wanting
> to make ourselves one meal a day, squeaking in coffee and/or
> breakfast for those in need of such before the site opens, and being
> able to eat out/or prepare non-Norse for a later dinner. But lunch is
> a definite. Does anyone have any further ideas, suggestions? I'm
> aiming at a soup/stew per day, and some griddle cake-objects.
> What are other things we could plan for ahead? What are
> minimalistic things we could prepare on site?