SC - Recepies wanted
david friedman
ddfr at best.com
Thu Mar 23 09:12:52 PST 2000
At 10:29 AM -0500 3/23/00, Elaine Koogler wrote:
>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!
We like to add one further step--doing the whole feast in miniature,
as a dinner for one table's worth of people. Invite the autocrat, the
other cooks, and at least one person with conservative tastes in
food. That gives you:
Possible advance warning of bottlenecks you hadn't thought of
A rough measure of whether you are making much too much of some
things and too little of others
Evidence on how the dishes fit together
A pleasant evening.
David/Cariadoc
http://www.best.com/~ddfr/
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