SC - don't cringe too bad....

[Elaine Koogler]

The server's guild of the Barony of Ponte Alto does this as a regular activity
for feasts that that group hosts.  I believe they use either rose water, or, on
occasion, orange water.

I've had the privilege of sitting at High Table when this has been done, and it
is a very pleasant thing to do!  So much so that I'm working to get it to happen
out our local events in Dun Carraig...seems to me that it might be something the
Baroness can do, don't you think?

Kiri (Baroness of Dun Carraig!)

lilinah at earthlink.net wrote:

> Adamantius wrote:
> >I had a tablemate at the last event feast I was at, who I think was a
> >bit thrown by my eating macrows one at a time with my fingers. She
> >commented, "I always thought there was no way in the world to eat
> >spaghetti with your hands and make it look elegant."
>
> I've always thought that salad and noodles are finger food, but then,
> look at the epithet to my name.
>
> >Of course I offered
> >to share my scented fingerbowl with her, as any gentleman ought
> >to...strange to say, she politely declined.
>
> While i haven't used a finger bowl at an event yet, i'm planning to
> bringing a pitcher, bowl, and towels this time so people who come to
> my "Moorish Science Reading Room" at West Crown this weekend will
> have clean hands when they handle my books.
>
> In the past, for non-SCA events, i've usually used rosewater. I
> realize we've discussed an existing recipe for scented hand water in
> another thread. I'm wondering who else here has actually used either
> a pitcher of water poured over diners hands before a meal (as is done
> at Passover) or finger bowls after the meal and what, if anything,
> you've scented the water with.
>
> Anahita al-shazhiyya
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