[Sca-cooks] Re: SCA cooks at Pennsic

[Stefan li Rous]

Helewyse de Birkestad commented:
> I so want to attend this gathering this year.  As far as location goes I am a short stumble down the hill to the lake (I camp up the hill behind Vlads) and a moderate walk to the A&S tent.  As I am planning on being there the whole two weeks the problem then becomes what can I make in camp without having to run into town the same day and buy supplies, or without having my entire household mug me for the food on the way out.

This was also a concern I had for the first SCA-Cooks pot luck. I was
camping with Ansteorra by myself and eating in the Food Court. Since I
flew in, I didn't have any cooking equipment.

That year I made some of the pine nut brittle stuff ahead of Pennsic
at home. This was fairly small and lightwieght. My only problem with
this dish was that it kept picking up moisture from the air and sticking
together.

I may well try the "cook at home and bring with me again" thing for
Pennsic this year. The last three years have been rather rushed trying
to squeeze in time between other committments, getting the right cooking
gear in the middle of an encampment with half a dozen cooks all trying to
prepare different dishes for that night's SCA-Cooks event or depending
upon another person to go to an offsite grocery, get the needed items
and return in time to cook them.

> Who did way too much cooking for her entire encampment last War and got seriously Peed of with the lack of clean up crew.  And who is planning on doing a lot more for herself this year and telling that lazy crew to find their own food!

I certainly think they should have taken care of the cleanup in that
situation.

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