SC - Worms, eh?

[Dan Cushenan Cameron]

Sounds like a good feast. I would eat it but alas I'm one of those stick
jock types.

Cameron
- -----Original Message-----
From: Siegfried Heydrich <baronsig at peganet.com>
To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Date: Thursday, March 16, 2000 11:51 AM
Subject: SC - Worms, eh?


>    I've got this feast I've been wanting to do for years. It's based on
the
>notion of what you would serve at a feast if you were under siege and
slowly
>starving to death. It's all good food, just prepared in such a manner that
>Only The Hungry Shall Eat! Remember, the worth of a cook is the ability to
>make do with what you have on hand, heh, heh.
>    Of course, this could only be served at a fighters collegium, as the
>Laurels and other hoity-toity types would immediately yak all over their
>lace ruffs. It would be a great opportunity to see just how tough these
>stick jocks really are, anyway! And I might add that the shtick potential
>here is truly awesome. Why, just the power chundering contest alone would
go
>down in the history books . . . we judge for volume, range, and color!
>
>    Sieggy
>
>            Siege of Antioch Memorial Dinner
>                                    or
>                Hungry are the Damned
>
>        FIRST COURSE
>    Moldy Bread
>Homemade bread, colored & endored in moldy colors.
>    Ox Grease
>Whipped butter with rinsed cooked tapioca pearls and egg drop streamers
>mixed in for texture.
>    Lumpy Shit
>Garbanzo, garlic, & olive oil spread chopped coarsely, piped into bowls.
Use
>a little corn for texture as well . .  . serve with a plastic fly on top.
>    Leather Chunks
>Homemade jerky, cut unto straps, holes punched with buckles added before
>drying
>
>        SECOND COURSE
>    Mouse Soup
>Clear broth soup with mouse shaped meat dumplings. with a chunk of water
>chestnut inside each dumpling <crunch!>.
>    Pond Scum Salad
>Lime Jell-O, cool whip, and fruit salad with spinach added.
>
>        INTERLUDE
>    Candied Cockroaches
>Glazed walnuts, pecans, and almonds.
>    Crunchy Frog
>Use a lily pad shaped cookie cutter to make cookies for the base, and use a
>bit of icing to secure a gummi tree frog to it (upscale confectionary shops
>sell them)
>
>        THIRD COURSE
>    Ribs of War Horse
>Beef short ribs in a burgundy sauce.
>    Breast of Nun
>Take turkey breast halves, peel back the skin, place a spiced apple ring
and
>a maraschino cherry on top, stretch the skin back over and secure. Glaze
and
>roast.
>    Haunch of Beldame
>Smoked pork butt.
>
>        SIDE DISHES
>    Mess o' Greens in Pus
>Greens (what have you) and a lemon cream sauce
>    Stewed Parchment & White Stuff (don't ask)
>Wonton leaves, written on in waterproof ink, and sauce blanc
>    Steamed Rat Droppings
>Fresh made couscous
>
>        DESSERT
>    Fried Entrails
>Make strings of dried fruit, roll in flour, dip in batter, fry.
>    Lice Pudding
>Rice pudding made with white/brown rice mixture and currants.
>
>        DRINK
>    Recycled Rain Water
>Lemonade
>    Quench Water from the Smithy
>Herbal tea
>
>
>
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