[Sca-cooks] Fwd: [cooks-guild] Rules for Trial by Fire

[Olwen the Odd]

Hi gang.  Thought if anyone was interested, here are our rules for Trial By
Fire here in Bright Hills (Baltimore area, Maryland, USA).  If you think you
can come down and need a place to crash and prepare, let me know and we will
come up with same.  Can also produce cooking, serving and heat source within
'our' reason...um, have you seen what we can do with a match and anyone's
supplies?  Hope some of you can be enticed to come and play.
Olwen

>From: "Karen Summerfelt-Hume" <ekaterina at md.prestige.net>
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>Subject: [cooks-guild] Fw: Rules for Trial by Fire
>Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2002 19:27:06 -0400
>
>
>Good gentles all,
>
>Here below are the rules and parameters for the Cooking competition known
>to us as Trial By Fire.
>Said competition is open to all. The date of Trial By Fire is Saturday,
>July 13, 2002.  The competition will take place at the home of Master
>Chirhart Blackstar and Mistress Jeanne Tenneur de Bec.  Directions to their
>home are shown at the end of this announcement. They will also be posted in
>the July Yeoman.
>
>
>Trial by Fire V
>   The Challenge:  to create a period dish under the conditions found at
>PENNSIC.
>
>The Categories:
>
>1.  Best Meat (includes fish and shellfish)
>2.  Best Vegetable
>3.  Best Grain (includes breads)
>4.  Best Dessert
>5.  Grand Champion (to be awarded at the judges' discretion)
>
>The Rules:
>
>1.  The dish must either:
>       a.  have been published between 650 and 1650 (for the empirically
>            inclined Apicius will be "grandfathered in."
>       b.  have all ingredients and cooking methods documented to period.*
>2.  Recipes must be brought to the competition.
>3.  Competitors must bring all ingredients to site and prepare the dish in
>situ.
>4.  Dishes must be prepared under conditions as found at PENNSIC
>      (no electronic appliances), for example, a Grill, Smoker, or Dutch
>Oven.
>5.  You must bring all cookers, pots, pans, utensils, dishes, etc.
>necessary
>      to prepare your dish.
>6.  Dish must be sufficient to serve eight to ten healthy adults.
>7.  Each competitor may enter only one dish per category, but may enter
>      multiple categories.
>8.  All competitors must register on the morning of the competition at the
>      table displaying the Cook's Guild Banner.
>
>The Judging:
>
>Judges will be drawn from impartial notables present at the event.  The
>judging
>will be blind.  Competitors should be aware that the judges will be using
>the
>following criteria:
>
>1.  The presence of documentation
>2.  Taste
>3.  Texture
>4.  Presentation
>5.  Bonus points based on the judge's experience in the field of period
>     cooking, for example:  if a dish has been religiously copied from a
>     period source despite complexity or cost, or if a dish displays
>notable
>     creativity within a recipe, etc.
>
>Prizes will be awarded after the completion of the judging.
>
>*  Food by Waverly Root will be used as the final arbiter for periodicity,
>please contact the Cooks' Guild of Bright Hills if you have questions or
>need an ingredient verified.
>
>Site:  1022 Main Street, Hampstead, MD   21074.  Phone:  410-239-8794
>
>         Gray Victorian, 2 story with Turret. Wide front porch with flags
>and a brick retaining wall out front.  Parking is allowed on both sides of
>the street - no meters.
>
>        Directions:
>
>      From Baltimore Metro area, Eastern DC and Southern Maryland - Take
>your best route to the Baltimore Beltway (I-695) and proceed to exit 19
>(I-795). Take I-795 North/West till it ends and turn Left onto MD rte 30.
>(on I-795 the signs will indicate rte 30, Hanover and Hampstead - get in
>the Left lane) Follow rte 30 North approximately 10 miles (well, maybe 12)
>to Hampstead, MD. Rte 30 is Main Street. You will go through 3 lights (at
>Black & Decker, just past the railroad tracks and at rtes 137 and 88 and
>30). After going through the 3rd light start looking for a parking place.
>Master Chirharts home is roughly a half block past the third light. It's on
>the Left.
>
>     From points South West and West - Take your best route to MD 27. (This
>can be reached from rtes I-70 and I-270). Take MD 27 North till it deadends
>at MD rte 30 in Manchester, MD. Turn Right and follow rte 30 about 7 miles
>into Hampstead, MD. You will go through 2 (I think it's 2) lights and as
>you pass the Police station on your Right start looking for a place to
>park. The house is on the Right about a block past the Police Station.
>
>      From points in Pennsylvania there are several routes. Please call or
>e-mail for directions if you need them.
>
>
>


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