SC - desserts
Jenne Heise
jenne at mail.browser.net
Wed Nov 1 12:44:14 PST 2000
> There is no disagreement there. However, 1581 CE is more than a hundred years
> into modern cookery. Such a concept of a separate dessert course was entirely
> lacking throughout the previous 900 years covered by the term 'SCA period.' I
> would venture to say the drastic changes that occurred with the introduction
> of early modern cookery, covered a period of time within the SCA that is
> statistically insignificant and should be looked on as an extraordinary
> occurrence in the history of culinary arts rather than be used as
> justification to introduce modern concepts into feasts.
>
It appears to me that some feasts did end with a course of sweet things.
Others did not. What does Platina sayabout how to end the meal? I seem to
remember that everyone says Platina says to have cheeese at the end.
Oh: remember the discussion of blocks of cheese as starters at feasts, put
out with the bread? Is that a regional custom, or an SCA-tradition? We
don't do such around here, unless it is soft homemade cheese, and two
imported senior persons have put it on their feast menus lately, so I'm
wondering if it is a regional custom imported from elsewhere.
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Jadwiga Zajaczkowa, mka Jennifer Heise jenne at tulgey.browser.net
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