[Sca-cooks] 12th Night Ideas

[Elaine Koogler]

If you check out several Elizabethan-era references, you'll find that the
premier dish for winter celebrations is Pork Brawn, a wonderful pickled pork
roast that can be made ahead of time and served with a mustard sauce.  If
you can find a copy of Peter Brear's wonderful book about Tudor kitchens:

Brears, Peter.  All the King's Cooks:  The Tudor Kitchens of Henry VIII at
Hampton Court Palace.London:  Souvenir Press, Ltd.,1999.

you'll find not only descriptions of the dish, but pictures of recreations
of it...complete with decorations.  The recipe I've used is from "Dining
with William Shakespeare" by Madge Lorwin.  If you don't have access to the
book, let me know and I'll send you the recipe.  In fact, you will find all
sorts of wonderful late period recipes in that book...unfortunately it is
out of print, and the occasional used copy will often bring high prices.

Let me know if you want the recipe....

Kiri




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Sent: Monday, May 13, 2002 9:07 PM
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I'm a long time lurker, but I have never posted to the list before, although
I'm beginning to feel I know many of you...

My group is discussing putting in a bid for next year's Twelfth Night.  I
have been asked to make food suggestions, having run several successful
feasts in the last several years.  I would like suggestions as to what books
to start with.  We have been told to "Think Elizabethan, think winter (and
then think eatable)".  I would like thoughts from anybody, especially anyone
who's cooked BIG events, since this will probably be twice the size of
anything I've tried to do before.

Thanks unto you all!

John Marshall of Hartshorn-Dale

P.S. Can I bring my gingerbread to the Pennsic Potluck?


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