SC - Serving question

[Alderton, Philippa]

At MK Coronation, Jasmine had the use of the Home Ec room and the High
School Kitchen proper for the cooking and main food prep- when we had the
food ready, we sent it into a staging room which had lots of steam tables,
and someone there was responsible for the decoration of the food platters,
and a group of servers who had been fed before the feast, and instructed (so
I was told) in what things were and how served. With the Crown Roast, which
was the only "special" dish we made for High Table, I cooked it and put
silver foil on the ends of the bones and got it on the silver platter, the
lady decorating the food surrounded it with greenery and such in a pleasing
pattern, I hijacked the disgustingly handsome young Knight who was to
present and carve it and explained to him how I had it tied and how to carve
it with maximum elegance and minimum hassle, then it was taken to the
staging room, the center section filled with the barley/lentil dish which
was also to be served in that course, then it waited there until it was
announced, and it was served.

(What WAS his name, Jasmine? I KNOW I had to be tired, to forget the name of
any young man that nice, and SO good-looking ;-)

Incidently, using the Home Ec room worked out wonderfully- we had plenty of
tables to use as counter space, and I had a fairly large area with its own
stove and sinks and goodly table to finish cutting the meat on, set up my
cooker, and spill water and stock all over without interfering with the
other cooks. I must have mopped that floor 5 times ;-) No, I'm not unusually
messy, it's just that transferring large quantities of concentrated stock to
a smaller pot for further concentration and heating required the help of two
of the gentlemen, to lift the original pot I'd been boiling it in for the
last couple of days, and getting the meat out of an iced down cooler led to
quantities of ice water spillage- I warned everyone in the kitchen to watch
their footing near me, as well as anyone else who stopped to help, who
ventured too close.


Phlip

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Philippa Farrour
Caer Frig
Southeastern Ohio

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