[Sca-cooks] Festival of the Rose: Menu

[Mercy Neumark]

Hello All!

I figured I would share what we (Mistress Huette and myself, with a few
friends) plan on preparing for Her Majesty of Caid, Catalina, on February 2,
2002.  A little less than two weeks off and this is my first time to feed
the crown.  Mistress Huette has been VERY helpful, and she's going to be
also cooking.  We already have the pickling going. :)

We will be feeding roughly 20 or so, lunch.  It is going to be presented
buffet style.

Menu as follows:

Fruit
Bread
Cheese
Cold tray with pickles, mushrooms, beets, asperigus and possibly artichokes.
Almond Jello Mold (Huette has the recipe from a source)
Compound Sallat with chicken (from Eating Shakespear)
Brie Tart (from King's Taste)
Beet Tart (Huette's recipe)
Livering Puddings (Queen's Taste)
Peas Pottage in the Italian Fashion (Eating William Shakespear)
Pear Flambe or possibly Snow

What we are planning on doing is making sun shapes out of several of the
items...if it works out, it should be cool.  Carving fruits, cheeses and
molding bread will be me for the most part.

All the "flour" we use will be wheat flour, most likely, to deal with
Catalina's "dislike" of it.  We might substitue, add or drop items as we get
closer to the event.  I found a recipe, which I believe is from a Form of
Curye that is a meatloaf in the shape of a peapod that I THOUGHT I would
redact...it would be my first redaction, so I'm not 100% sure I want to do
that or not though.

I plan on taking pictures to share with everyone.  Keep your fingers crossed
for us!  I plan on practicing on Saturday several of the big recipes that I
hadn't already tried, to make sure it all works.  This should be fun! If
those come out, I'll try to take pictures of those as well. Why not, huh? :)

Thanks to everyone for your input!  Whatever I didn't use now, I'll
definitely use another time.  Thanks again! :)

Anyhow, anyone going to Festival of the Rose, by all means come on by!  Love
to see you!

--Arte

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