[Sca-cooks] Bright Hills' Trial by Fire

[ruadh]

it maybe easier to just put it in the body of [several] emails. than to
reply to all the request I expect you should receive.  Nice going.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Elaine Koogler" <ekoogler at chesapeake.net>
To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Monday, July 16, 2001 1:58 PM
Subject: [Sca-cooks] Bright Hills' Trial by Fire


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> I had a wonderful experience this past weekend competing in the Trial by
> Fire competition sponsored by the Cooks' Guild of the Barony of Bright
> Hills.  The folks up there are truly wonderful, and it was great to get
> to "play" all day with a bunch of fine cooks.  The final spread that was
> put out was amazing!  Not only was the food delicious, but the
> presentations were something to behold.  There were four categories,
> meat, veggies, grains and desserts, with a grand champion to be chosen
> overall.  Master Chirhart, of this list, won the meat competition with a
> chicken and prune dish that was excellent...I'm sure that, if persuaded,
> he'll share the recipe with us!  One thing I did discover...I now have
> an idea as to what those guys on Iron Chef feel like as they head down
> to the wire....I really had to scramble to get everything done and
> plated during the last 15 minutes of the competition!
>
> To cap off a wonderful day, during a meeting of the Cooks' Guild, I was
> voted in as an honorary member of the Guild...which was later modified
> to "the founding member of the Dun Carraig branch of the Bright Hills
> Cooks' Guild"....thanks a bunch, guys!!!  It is a great honor.
>
> I did three dishes, all from Perry's "Medieval Arab Cookery" book, and
> all were well-received.  Probably the best of the three was the lamb
> stew dish which everyone really liked.  The almond-stuffed dates were an
> experiment as the recipe sounded very much like the Dates Alexandrine
> from Apicius.  The result was actually much better...the dates are
> actually cooked in a mixture of honey and rosewater with saffron, then,
> while they are cooling, sprinkled with a mixture of caster sugar and
> poppy seeds.  They were moister and more flavorful than the Roman
> version, we thought.  I am attaching a Word file with the recipes in it
> to this.  If anyone cannot read the file, let me know and I'll send the
> recipes in a mail message.  I'd love to know what you all think of my
> redactions....
>
> Thanks!
>
> Kiri
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