SC - Confession is good for the soul

[Jenne Heise]

*sigh*
Ok, I'm 24 hours from my non-messy dayboard, and well.. it's not entirely
period. As my friends around here say, "It's a dayboard, right? What's the
big deal?" Well, the big deal is knowing that people are going to be
saying behind my back, "Why isn't this all period food?!" So, to stave off
that angst, I'm posting my menu here and you can criticize it and I can
relax. (I'm feeding anywhere from 50 to 100 people; the organizer says 50,
the autocrat says 75, the people who have looked at the pre-notification
list say 100. *shakes head* and it's a free event, too..)

Suggestions, comments, criticism welcome.

Cold Roasted chicken, Cold Roasted Beef (some of the beef will be seasoned
with my own, Dembinska inspired but not documented combination of larded
with garlic and rubbed with thyme, then soused with cubeb vinegar; some
will be plain. I probably won't boil it first...)
Cubed Cheese: swiss, cheddar, farmer
Sauces: 
	Black (pepper) sauce ("Black poivre", quoted in Redon et. al)
	White Garlic Sauce (quoted in Redon et. al)
	Green Sauce (ibid)
	Tournai-style Cameline sauce (Maestro, quoted in Redon et. al)
	Yellow Sauce, or Poivre Jaunet or Aigret (ibid)
	Jance (quoted in Redon et al)
	Black-Grape Sauce (ibid)
	variation on niccolo's red mustard
	green mustard sauce (adapted from the completely undocumented
	combination of mustard and green sauces in Woys Weaver's recipes)

Bread: The white bread will come from the bakery; i have also made various
wheat/rye breads but though some of them used a beer barm leaven, all of
them were from modern recipes and include sweetening (sugar or molasses).

Fruit: Apples, Pears, and Tangerine (I know that Tangerines are not
period, but ihave no documentation for eating sweet oranges out of hand
either, and the Tangerines were cheap.)

Pickled cucumbers (both sweet and sour; commercial-- pickled cucumbers are
period but I don't have any idea what recipe they would have used);
Pickled mushrooms (my own personal recipe, based on a post period --
1756-- recipe-- if anyone has documentation for spices in pickled
mushrooms I would be grateful.)
Pickled eggs (thank you to the lady who gave me that recipe.. they are
delicious; I've eaten a dozen of the first batch already; but again they
are undocumented. I improved the recipe by making my own pickling spice,
sans unperiod ingreients, but still...)

Raw veggies: turnips, celery, and carrots. (Raw carrot eating appears to
be unperiod, but I have references which may be to eating celery and
turnips raw as snacks)

Sekanjabin (Cariadoc, _Miscellany_)
Lemon drink made from Syrup of Lemons (Caridoc)
Ginger drink made from a recipe for Ginger Ale syrup in _The Pantry
Gourmet_... I know they had ginger drinks, I find references in tertiary
sources but no recipe! Also it uses Lime juice and I can't tell, I thought
Limes were not period.
Hott mulled apple cider. (no, I haven't checked the mulling spices for
periodness, but I expect allspice is in there. Also, no documentation for
mulled sweet cider)

Cookies: (these were a request, more or less: the organizers wanted
non-messy, the autocrat wanted a sweet)
Period cookie: Excellent Small Cakes, from Digby.
Non-period: Apfeltaushen, a ricotta dough wrapped around apple slices.
Really non-period: Sweltzler's Spice wafers packaged cookies.

Extra nummies:
Packaged minipretzels. (Hard salted pretzels have no documentation, but
the shape appears in the border of an illumination, I think in the _Hours
of Anne of Cleves_)
Crystalized Ginger (it's mentioned in secondary sources but I don't have
documentation, and besides, I didn't make it myself, I bought it.)
 -- 
Jadwiga Zajaczkowa, mka Jennifer Heise	      jenne at tulgey.browser.net
disclaimer: i speak for no-one and no-one speaks for me.
"I do my job. I refuse to be responsible for other people's managerial 
hallucinations." -- Lady Jemina Starker