SC - Competition entry

[Philip & Susan Troy]

And the really funny thing is that not only is it not period, as far as
I can tell, but it is quite atypical of the many other hypocras recipes
I've seen. I don't mind that, of course, but we probably have people
believing that "May's English Cream" is what people are talking about
when they speak of hypocras.

I think the biggest problem with a lot of guild-based brewing
comps/judges (and the problem is not necessarily connected to being
guild-based, it's just that in my experience it's mostly the guild
members who have this problem) is the assumption that since brewing is a
period art, anything one cares to brew is a period artifact. Kinda like
the dubious portrayals of Henry VIII eating whole legs of mutton with
his hands and throwing the bones over his shoulder being indicative of
early 16th-century eating practices, and therefore of our entire
period's eating practices. So many brewers are simply ignorant of the
characteristics of period brewing styles, but they sure can tell you how
well your brew stacks up against Bass and Guinness, and will
indiscriminately use judgement criteria for brews created in the
eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to judge brews created in the
sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. 

Adamantius Harumph  

RichSCA at aol.com wrote:
> 
> Talk about going around full circle... We are back to the general populace
> belief that if it looks appalling enough and tastes bad... it must be
> period!!!
> 
> Oh, Oh.... I can use that sentence again....  documentation please.   :-)
> 
> Rayne   (yes, I know that Mordonna the Cook was quoting a judge and that is
> not her belief)
> 
> hmmmmmm... Perhaps we need to have judges and the populace carry ALL their
> documentation around with them before they speak...  (just kidding - really)
> 
> Although I do have a younger sister (Lady Sadira) who was into Middle Eastern
> embroidery and who used (what was to me very bold colors) who DID walk around
> with her documentation in her pouch.  And at every Pennsic people would
> approach her and ask (both kindly and rudely) if she had documented her
> stitches.  She had.
> 
> In a message dated 3/15/00 10:24:05 PM Central Standard Time,
> Mordonna22 at aol.com writes:
> 
> <<  It was obvous from the comments that these
>  mead makers had no idea what Hyppocras was supposed to look like, much less
>  taste like.  One even commented that it certainly looked appalling enough to
>  be period. (snicker)
> 
>  Mordonna the Cook,
>  SunDragon's Western Reaches
>  Atenveldt >>
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Phil & Susan Troy

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