[Sca-cooks] The "rain" of Queen Mary Grace

[Audrey Bergeron-Morin]

What can I say...
Wow...
That is quite a story, and very well told :-)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Olwen the Odd" <olwentheodd at hotmail.com>
To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Monday, June 18, 2001 1:10 PM
Subject: [Sca-cooks] The "rain" of Queen Mary Grace


> Hi all.  Well, another event done and now the dishes are washed and the
pig
> cooker is safely back in the yard.  Now to wash off more mud from our
> clothes and towels...
>
> We cooked for our Queen in the rain...again...at Highland River Melees.
> Lord Hugh was head cook and asked the household (house Blackstar) to lend
a
> hand.  We put up the pavillion and started the fires and washed the leeks
> and stemmed and washed the spinach, the beef was defatted and cut into
> chunks and the sky darkened and the wind picked up.  The mushrooms were
> stemmed and the cheese was shredded and the rain began.  And as two men
with
> an axe and mallet split mostly frozen chickens in two the heavens opened
up
> and let down such torrents of rain to wash away all the blues and woes and
> once again house Blackstar was teasing and cooking and laughing and
soaking
> wet and still Court went on and as Lord Hugh was called into Baronial
Court
> to recieve induction into the Order of the Lark (for service) the cooking
> pavillion emptied as the household ran through the rain to see and cheer
on.
>   Then back to work as pies were made and the water wench set back to the
> task of draining the pools of water out of the saggy pavillion roof.  Then
> again the cooks ran out of the cooking pavillion to cheer and watch as
> another of our Household, Adam, was proclaimed Lord Adam in the Court of
our
> "Raining" Queen and King and the happy dance was done and back through the
> torrent to rotating pies on the fire and slicing the beef and turning the
> chickens while saffron was added to the rice and more straw was strewn on
> the ankle high waters of the pavillion floor.  Still the water wench did
her
> bidding and endlessly circled the pavillion dumping gallon on gallon of
> water off the tent roof as we laughed and cooked and hugged and never
> thought of why we do this insanity for sheer fun.  And jokes were made of
> the pig roast upcoming at Pennsic and how much rain will be forth-coming
as
> the fires are started and the pigs are dressed and off go our shoes to
> squish in the mud once more in service to our "raining" Queen Mary Grace
of
> Atlantia.
>
> So goes the story of the feast at Highland River Melees.
>
> Lady Olwen the Odd
> Clan of Odds
> House Blackstar
> Bright Hills Cooks Guild
> Barony of Bright Hills
> Kingdom of Atlantia!
>
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