SC - mushrooms

[Nanna Rognvaldardottir]

This is a good point, and is the way I go as well.  I read through several period
cookbooks, find things that look like they would work with the way I plan to do
desserts (dessert table or serving it as I have the rest of the feast), etc.  However,
I add one additional step.  Maybe I'm just nervous about how things might turn out,
but I always try each recipe out before I serve it in a feast.  I've found that the
folks in my barony love the idea of serving as culinary "guinea pigs" when I'm
experimenting!

Kiri

Jeff Gedney wrote:

> >  I was doing a feast and was looking for some recipes.  I have the recipes for
> > the main part of the feast but I haven't found any period recipes for the
> > deserts I want to serve.  The deserts I am interested in are Frangipani,
> > Macaroons, Milan Cakes or Flavored Ice.  If anyone has any suggestions where
> > I could find them please let me know.  Thank you for your time.
>
> This, In my opinion, is not the best way of doing things.
> It sounds to me that you have some favorite recipes/desserts, and are seeking
> to justify serving themn at a feast, by documenting these desserts as "period"
> This is going about it backward.
> If you want to serve desserts, look at period recipes, and find some you'd like
> to serve. If they happen to resemble desserts you already like, fine, if not,
> maybe you'll get some new favorites!
> But the point is that you are not seeking to from history around what you
> already want to serve, but serving what you want from history recipes.
> I am not sure if that is coming accross clearly. No doubt His Grace Cariadoc
> could say it better ( he has been saying it longer!! ).
> In any case, you do not HAVE to document what you serve as "period", just
> serve it if you like it. Just don't call it "Period" food/desserts.
> If you want to serve it, serve it. If you wnat period recipes, find period recipes
> and use them. I have personally started out by reading a book of recipes, and
> bookmarking all the ones I thought would be nice to make, then picking the
> menu from that.
> Picking the menu then trying to find period recipes for it does not have the
> same chances of success (since not all recipes are period), and often leads
> to abuses of the term "period" (such as finding that the ingredients were known
> in period, therefore the recipe is acceptable period, even though the ingredients
> may not in fact have usually been eaten by people in the form used, such as
> potatoes and chocolate).
> If you choose modern recipes, and seek to document them, then you will not
> always succeed, since there are modern recipes that were invented after
> period, and chances are that some of the modern recipes you want to document
> have no period andtecessors.
> If however you choose from a group of known period recipes, then you are
> guaranteed to have period recipes, since that is what you started from.
>
> Just my opinion....
>
> brandu
>
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