[Sca-cooks] just an introduction

[Susan Fox-Davis]

Welcome to here, milord Morvran!  You will be amazed at just how much of your pioneer knowlege carries over into SCA life... and at the things that do NOT.  Oddly enough, some things that would seem obvious were either not discovered yet, either geographically [like New World veggies and such] or by concept.  For example:  all the ingredients of Mayonnaise were known in SCA period, but of course there is no evidence of their having been combined in that way before 1660 or so.

As for the stuff you want to learn, hmmm.  We've got a terrific glass bead lady in Calafia, that is San Diego, California, she teaches it at least once a year.  I teach historic cooking and "leatherwork for dummies" meself, and want to do more work in my favorite food, cheese.  For is it not said:  Blessed are the Cheesemakers?  <did I get that wrong?>

A lot of period sources are available online, as are a lot of other right scholarly and fun studies done by people on this list.  Here are my personal bookmarks from my SCA/Food folder:

Food
   Primary Sources
      http://staff-www.uni-marburg.de/~gloning/vi-vat.htm
      http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/menagier/
      http://icg.harvard.edu/~chaucer/special/lifemann/manners/aragon.html      http://www.best.com/~ddfr/Medieval/Cookbooks/Du_Fait_de_Cuisine/du_fait_de_c_contents.html
      http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/foc/
      http://virgil.org/appendix/moretum.htm      http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Medieval/Cookbooks/Andalusian/andalusian_contents.htm
      http://www.best.com/~ddfr/Medieval/Cookbooks/Sabrina_Welserin.html      http://www.lewis-kappes.com/LK/Pompeiiana/TheRomanCookery/ChoppedMeats.htm
      http://www.thing.de/projekte/7:9%23/pontormo.html
      http://infotrope.net/sca/texts/english-housewife/
      http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/cariadoc/miscellany.html
   http://home.vicnet.net.au/~focus/tr_ye_mn.htm
   http://www.idos.com/
   http://members.aol.com/renfrowcm/links.html
   http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~capriest/vikfood.html
   http://www.godecookery.com/gcooktoc/gcooktoc.htm
   http://witch.drak.net/lilinah/links-ME-cuisine-nobg.html
   http://www.dplanet.ch/users/julien.courtois/orgy/index.html
   http://www.teleport.com/~tguptill/cooking.htm
   http://www.webring.org/cgi-bin/webring?ring=medrencook;list
   http://www.cs.vassar.edu/~capriest/brikoven.html
   http://members.tripod.com/~AoifeFinn/oven.html
   http://www.advancenet.net/~jscole/maidens.htm
   http://moas.atlantia.sca.org/topics/cook.htm
   http://www.dnaco.net/~arundel/apician.html
   http://clem.mscd.edu/~grasse/GK_Rumpolt1.htm
   http://user.icx.net/~richmond/rsr/ajax/harington.html
   http://members.aol.com/gerekr/food.html
   http://www.florilegium.org/
   http://web.missouri.edu/~hayj/recipes.html
   http://www.sca.org.au/ynys_fawr/recipes.htm
   http://www.angelfire.com/ne2/vasilla/ovens.html
   http://clem.mscd.edu/~grasse/GKContents1.htm
   http://witch.drak.net/lilinah/menu.html
   http://www.dl.ket.org/latin2/mores/food/home.htm
   http://www.mindspring.com/~franiccolo/kites_menu_recipes.html
     http://mkcooks.homestead.com/Articles.html
   http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/food.html
   http://milkmama.tripod.com/kervynge.html
   http://www.geocities.com/thorngrove/cooking.htm
   http://users.iafrica.com/m/me/melisant/cook/cook.htm
   http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/4756/ironchef.htm
   http://www.arbasicula.org/sp_arabic_influence.html

These should keep you busy for minutes on end!

Selene, Caid
Burbank, California

welsh10thcent at tds.net wrote:

> First off, i am new to SCA, but spent 20years studying pioneer life, and can do most anything they did, dang did they work hard, but i do enjoy the learning and doing, so i thought well i have covered life back to about 1800 so how about another adventure.  Well then came into play SCA, have always been intriqued by the fact than anyone ever survived, at all.  To study history, in school, uck, but this kind of stuff, i love it.  when i had to do reports in H.S. and College, i used to freak out teachers because i would do things like History or Quilting or Candlemaking or such.  They didnt quite know how to take it.  Well i do and have done and will continue to do a lot of things.  I am a chef by trade, even though i dont work in the industry right now, to much stress, OY.  I thru the years have found little i cant do if i want to do it, okay give birth, but then again, i dont think that would be that much fun anyway, sorry not into pain :)
>
> anyway, sorry for the leveity, stressful week.  i spin, weave, used to raise sheep for wool, chicken for eggs, ceramics, stain glass, working on writing a cook book, cooking is a passion for me, woodwork, needlework, crochet, machine knitting, tried hand knitting but that is to nerve wracking for me :), love working on the computer, work at my friends bakery, herb garden mostly weeds right now :( but time is a factor, to many things to do and not enough interest in weeding :), Vegetable gardening, canning and freezing and dehydrating, Candlemaking, candy making, i know there is more but i cant think of everything, i want to learn how to do glass beads, cheese making, historical cooking, i know there is more i will find i want to learn.