SC - Re: First feasts
Michael F. Gunter
michael.gunter at fnc.fujitsu.com
Fri Jan 19 07:09:54 PST 2001
Sue Clemenger wrote:
> Now _there's an interesting potential topic....so, everyone, what did
> y'all do for _your_ first feast?
My first real feast was something like 14 years ago and it was my
barony's 10 annual Championship tournament. It rained, a lot.
Luckily we had a nice feast hall that had a real kitchen! Well, a regular
refrigerator and home stove. I did a lot of cooking ahead of time and
so had tons of food in boil-in bags. Basically I just heated a lot of
it up and served it forth.
The menu, if I can recall it now, was:
First course: homemade apple butter rolls (like a jelly roll but using
apple butter for a different taste). I figured a nice sweet would blunt
the appetite.
Scrambled eggs with spinach, bacon, mushrooms and cheese.
Beef stew covered in pastry.
Fettucini in a white cream sauce
Rice cooked in chicken broth served under the stew
Roasted chicken leg and thigh quarters.
I think I did a greens dish.
Yellow cake in three layers with vanilla pudding between
the layers and topped with whipped cream.
I'm sure I'm leaving out a couple of things but I'm old so forgive
me.
I know it wasn't what you would call period but we tried. Even substituting
parboiled turnips instead of potatoes in the stew. Not bad for a first effort
in a kingdom where very few people knew about period cooking at the time.
I fed around 200 people that night.
Yers,
Gunthar
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