[Sca-cooks] beast feasts

[Generys ferch Ednuyed]

At the feast I'm head cook for in Sept, the Autocrat wanted a dessert /
subtlety type thing based on the whole hero's portion type thing - some sort
of "roast pig" looking thing.  It has to feed 100+, and the site is *very*
primitive - i.e. i'm getting a pig cooker to do all the roast meats in,
because the oven has 1, count them, 1 (small) oven. Thus, pastry is right
out.for the dessert-beast.  So, i was thinking about this last weekend is
that "Strawberries and Snow" recipe that was posted a while back (btw, could
someone repost that?) and thinking, hmm, that will be pink.  Pigs are
pink... So, what I was thinking is that I could make the "body" of the pig
out of the strawberry snow stuff, and then make a head and legs and such out
of either bread of some sort, or marzipan (though I'm not the marzipan
expert that m'lady Olwen is), or something like that.  I was hoping to get
some feedback on the idea - I'm trying to get to something that's, while
probably not period, at least "perioid" in feel, and *unique*.

Generys

----- Original Message -----
From: "david friedman" <ddfr at daviddfriedman.com>
To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Friday, July 12, 2002 3:24 PM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] beast feasts


> Margali wrote (quite a while back):
>
> >I always wanted to do a 'hero's hunt' based feast - like those old
ballads
> >about the huge hunk o beast and the days fighting champion getting to
pick
> >his heroic portion/doing the carving thang - very neat idea for a 'wild
> >hunt' type of woods battle fighting event in the fall...
> >
> >margali
> >hmmmmmm, where is that link to those Irish and Celtic hero-tales?
Something
> >about killing that mean nasty huge bull...
>
> You may be thinking of MacDatho's Boar. That's the one where the
> minor king who has rashly promised the same thing to two powerful
> rival kings invites them to dinner simultaneously to let them have it
> out. The question of who gets to carve is being settled by
> competitive boasting and ends with person from side A saying, "Well,
> I admit you are better than me, but if so-and-so were here, he would
> make you give way", and person from side B says, "He is here", pulls
> so-and-so's head out of a pouch and hurls it across the table.
> Everything breaks up into a fight at that point, to the detriment of
> dinner; I expect that is why you want to get the fighting out of the
> way first?
>
> Elizabeth/Betty Cook
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