[Sca-cooks] Ya. It's over. I lived

[Elaine Koogler]

I've already sent out a message praising the feast, etc., but especial
praise is due Lady Olwen for her marzipan arms for the baronies.  She did a
wonderful job of them.  One of the southern baronies has a special type of
knot on it (can't remember the name, off the top of my head), and the
Baron/Baroness commented that it was one of the very few times that the knot
was rendered correctly!!  The arms of the Kingdom even had leaf gold on the
crown!!!  It was obvious to all that a lot of hard work had gone into their
creation.  Thanks so very much, Olwen, for all of your hard work...the
cookbook was just my poor way of thanking you for this.

Kiri

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[mailto:sca-cooks-admin at ansteorra.org]On Behalf Of Olwen the Odd
Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2002 3:09 PM
To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
Subject: [Sca-cooks] Ya. It's over. I lived


Hi all.  The hell feast for 400 is over and among too many tired feet,
laughter, tears and well wishing, it's finally over and I am safely back in
Baltimore.  My daughter asked me to bring her to the library so she could
check her email so I thought I would too.

So how did things go in the East Kingdom?  Did my surprize get there Puck?
Did it survive the trip?  Ya gotta tell me all about it!  How was ya'lls
feast?

Our's was a whopping success.  We got lots of complements and folks stopped
anyone they saw with an apron on and said great things.  Master Chirhart ran
a good kitchen.  Well done Master!  Thanks for letting me work and play
there.  Things went pretty smoothly all in all.  Clean up is always a bit*h,
but hey, who *likes* to clean up?  We had a few new helpers in the kitchen
and that is always a nice treat.  Baroness Rowan was there prepping with us
and Baron Ivan helped Baron Heinrich, his son Joe, Baroness Barbara and
Baron Temur and others in scullery duty.  Our servers were spiff thanks to
Baroness Ekaterina (don't know if anyone else helped) who made up some nice
tabbards with our Bright Hills on them.  Very cool. The inspector came
through and gave us a 100% on his inspection list.  I think Chirhart has a
story about that.  Baroness Kiri popped in and out of the kitchen to pass
along words of praise and some 12th night gifts.  She gave me a book of
recipes from some of her past feasts.  I can't wait to go home, put my feet
up, get a glass of wine and open it up to read!  Thank you Kiri!  How sweet
of you to think of me.  I shall treasure it.  We had lots of gifts of
potables which we happily took in hand and tummy.  First thing Friday night
while checking into the hotel we ran into someone from Raligh NC who
presented us with a bottle of Whiskey for the kitchen staff (Chirhart drank
it) and it just kept getting wetter!  Wahoo!  The beef was perfect.  The
venison pies were raved over.  The savory toasted cheese was simply gone.
The bowls came back with marks where folks had wiped them clean with their
fingers to get the last drop!  All the bread we served was baked from
scratch on site, the soft cheese was made on site (there was still a bag
hanging at the end of cleanup), the butters were molded, the piecrusts were
made on site,  I think just about the only thing we had a lot left over of
was the carrots and parsnips.  We were all tired, most of us were sick
injured, Chirhart and I both walked into the kitchen, picked up a knife and
then stabbed ourselves with it when we first got there (not together) but we
did it and now it is all done but the crowing.

All the Arms were arranged on a table and actually looked pretty impressive
all arranged together.  I'll get pictures developed maybe tomorrow and post
them so you can see.  All the Hats were very surprized and happy to be
gifted the Arms of their Barony from the Bright Hills Cooks Guild.
Morningstar made the nicest faux develed eggs in milkjelly and jello and we
made up a little relish tray of fauz food for the Queen.  She loved it!  She
even stopped Morningstar this morning to rave about it.



Lady Olwen the Odd
Clan of Odds
House Blackstar
Bright Hills Cooks Guild
Order of the Pearl
Barony of Bright Hills
Kingdom of Atlantia!


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