SC - Re: SC- Platina Feast
Marian Deborah Rosenberg
Marian.Deborah.Rosenberg at washcoll.edu
Sun Sep 10 14:28:30 PDT 2000
Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2000 14:07:40 -0700
From: david friedman <ddfr at best.com>
Subject: Re: SC - Platina Feast
Marian Deborah Rosenberg has been talking about doing a dinner from
Platina for her class. Several years ago when we were in Myrkfaelin
we did a feast from Platina. The menu was:
Menu for 80 people
on table: 2 1/2 lb pine nuts (candied), ~2 lb raisins
First course
Fricassee of Lamb 20 recipes
Potage from Meat 6 recipes (3 3/4 gal)
Armored Turnips 10 recipes
Fried Broad Beans 7 1/2 recipes
Rice 2 1/2 gal
Second course
Mirause of Catelonia 8 chickens
Torta of Herbs 10 small tortas
Carrots with Lettuce 5 recipes
Dessert
Golden Morsels 20 recipes
Torta of Red Chickpeas 10 tortas
The "recipes" mentioned above are the quantities in our versions of
the recipes, all of which are in the Miscellany.
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I was confused by the use of the word "recipe" in the above list, and after your
explanation I'm even more confused....
<Rereads a few times>
Correct me if I am mistaken, but when you say "20 recipes" do you mean 20X the
quantities of ingredients listed in the relevant recipe in the Miscellany?
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Food quantity was a
bit much; I have a note that there was a good deal left over of the
final torta. This was about 7 years ago, at which time food costs for
this menu came to about $4.00/head. My memory is that we looked
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wonderful! I have the prof convinced on the idea of me cooking it, I'm still
working on the cost per person convincing.
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through Platina for comments on what was best served at the
beginning, what at the end of a meal, and that there were a lot of
such comments. For example, Platina says about pine nuts, "They are
often eaten with raisins and are thought to arouse hidden passions;
and they have the same virtue when candied in sugar. Noble and rich
persons often have this as a first or last course." Which was why we
had raisins and candied pine nuts at the beginning. A lot of the
choice of recipes, however, was just things we already had worked out
and particularly liked.
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yum... pine nuts... droool...
:)
- -Marian
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