[Sca-cooks] Festival of the Rose report

[Elaine Koogler]

Sounds wonderful!!!  Wish I could have been there...but then it's a bit of a
commute!!

Kiri

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Behalf Of Mercy Neumark
Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 4:00 PM
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Subject: [Sca-cooks] Festival of the Rose report

Hello Everyone!

The luncheon went off with little issues, other than the fact that I didn't
realize the kitchen was more of a closet than anything else.  Court went
long and because we had to stage the last of the cooked items, we ended up
serving things about 30 minutes late...but all in all it wasn't bad.

This is what we served.

Fruit
Cheese
Cold Tray featuring pickled cucumbers, mushrooms, beets, olives and
asparagus
Wheat & Rye Breads and muffins
Almond Leache
Grilled Chicken Compound Sallat
Brie Tarts
Mushrooms stuffed with Cheese
Livering Pudding (chicken Liver Pate)
Peas Pottage in the Italian Fashion (Hearty pea soup)
Leche Lumbard (Pork loaf in a red wine sauce)
Pizelles with two sauces 9custard and a berry sauce)

As you can tell, we had a TON of food.  Just HUGE amount for the court we
were told we coming.  I think they originally told us we were feeding 20 and
I only saw maybe 10 all together.  So, we opened the food to the populace
once Their Majesties and their court went through.

Being that this was my first real experience cooking, I never realized how
many people come to the kitchen for assorted things.  From paper towels
(after the third time someone asked for some, we told the person to take the
paper towels out to the floor...made more sense at the time) to holding
flowers for opening court presentation.  I thought it was funny after
awhile, until I got whacked by the door in the foot.  heh.  My own fault.

Anyhow, we couldn't hear court all that much...it was on the other side of
the wall, but I poked my head out now and then.  The room where court was,
was decorated in purple and gold banners of Her Majesty's colors.  Very
nice.  I saw the Baroness of Angels doing a Belly dance at opening court to
raise money for the chirigeon's fund.  She made $55 bucks...not bad for two
minutes of dancing. :)

Our stuff spilled out into the hallway even though we unpacked 80% of the
boxes.  We grabbed a table and staged platters on it.  There was four of us
working, and we had to turn away people that offered to help (thanks Aeddie
for the thought, I appreciated it!).  A friend of mine Bruce from San Diego
(not an SCA member) barely squeezed in with us...good thing he was thin and
freakishly-tall.  Tall is good when you're piling boxes on the top of the
fridge to get out of the way. :)

Anyhow, we had to move tables and clear stuff off of them, and we placed
them on either side of the main entryway.  Because of space (lack there of)
we started putting the food out early and had Bruce watch the tables...told
him no one must touch the food unless they are the King and Queen.  It was
rather funny when King Edric walked up and he quickly turned to me and
wondered if he had to tackle him or not. ;)

Mistress Huette walked through what was what and they went through.  As far
as I could tell, it was all well received and about an hour after they ate,
the Queen came to the kitchen and thanked us all for our work.  She's so
sweet. :)

That's pretty much it.  It looked like people liked the food, though they
were afraid to eat my sculpted breads...I ended up cutting them up in order
to get people to try it.  The livering pudding scared people (again).  Not
sure if its because it was in a perfect mound or because its brown with
darker brown bits in it.  Ah well...

Thanks again to everyone who helped!  Dame Selene helped us with the
pizelles, Wolfe made the brie tarts (after I was pulling my hair out
struggling with the bread that wouldn't stick together) and the fruit trays,
Bruce with cheese and massive amounts of dishes, and Huette of course for
her dishes (Almond Leache, Chicken sallat, soup, etc) and her support.

Now...perhaps we MAY go for feeding the royals again at Altavia Anniversary
in May, but not 100% sure.  Hmmm.

--Artemesia

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