SC - Crown Touney/Queen's Tea

[Olwen the Odd]

Just wanted to post a little about the Touney.  I got to meet several folks 
from this list and another that I'm on.  It was so nice to put faces with 
names.  It was my pleasure to meet you all.

As mentioned before, our Cook's Guild did the goodies for the Queen's Tea.  
I can say for certain that we WOW'd em.  There was three tables filled with 
food stuffs and another for drink stuffs.  It was a treat to have so many 
questions to answer and so many astonished responses to our faux foods and 
unusal treats.  Two OOP turkeys were cooked, one sliced and the other rested 
whole on a bed of chicken aspic cubes.  We had poached salmon and pickeled 
salmon, vinegared cucumbers, several homemade breads (the Mexican Chocolate 
too-what a hit) herbed and honeyed butters, homemade cheeses, pumkin 
perogies (thanks) home dried fruits and comfit peels, Ember Day Tart, 
vegetarian kish, pies, tarts, and so many other things I cann't remember.  
The peach pits were served on a small plate with some faux cinnomon sticks 
and of course the Fruit of the Chicken.

When we were done with the Tea, we went back to our Baronial Pavillion and 
brought out all the delights we made for there.  We also had any leftovers 
from the Tea.

Much to the surprize and delight of our "lame duck" Baron, I came up with 
the idea of creating same.  I cooked a duck standing upright and between 
myself and Morningstar, a sweet potato head was carved, twig crutches were 
formed and a Baronial tabard was made.  Hans brought a duck call and started 
quacking getting the Baron's attention.  He was delighted!!  Such a proud 
Baron.  He took that duck to each pavillion around the list field along with 
an invitation to come over and partake of the feast to be found waiting 
under his Pavillion.  He even took the duck to sit proudly on his lap in 
Court!  As court was over and the event feast was beginning, the Baron asked 
Morningstar to create a Kingdom tabard for the duck and enjoyned us to 
follow him into the feast hall where he passed to "lame duck" along to the 
King!  What fun.

Olwen


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