[Sca-cooks] Draft Menu for Red and White Ball

[Nancy Kiel]

These dishes sound very tasty.  Would it be possible for you to list the
cookbooks from which you got the receipts?  My non-English cookbook
collection is minimal (okay, two).   Thanks!


>From: Robyn.Hodgkin at affa.gov.au
>Reply-To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
>To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
>Subject: [Sca-cooks] Draft Menu for Red and White Ball
>Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 14:28:27 +1000
>I am catering the upcoming Red and White Ball in Politarchopolis. I have
>decided to reflect the varied countries of the renaissance dances in the
>menu, and so have whipped up the following draft.
>
>It all has to be food that is able to be eaten by hand, which is why there
>are so many pastry dishes.  I have tried to make sure that the menu is
>light and summery in feel.
>
>German
>Genovese tart
>Almond chantarelles
>Plum Tart
>Strawberry Tart
>Chicken Buns
>green tart
>Date Tart
>
>English
>Jumbals (gilded)
>date and prune shapes
>gingerbread
>apple puffs
>strawberry gellies
>candied ginger
>carrot salad
>peas pies
>(the english really had sweet tooths!)
>
>Italian
>Elderflower fritters
>Stuffed Eggs
>Tart of Herbs
>Sage dish
>
>French
>Particoloured white dish (a kind of sliceable almond pudding)
>Lorey pastries
>Hedgehogs (adjusted slightly as I don't have any mutton stomachs)
>
>I am still fiddling, as I hope to get a bit more consistency in period for
>the dishes, and I haven't yet balanced it for allergies. Comments welcomed.
>
>Kiriel du Papillon
>
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Nancy Kiel
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.   Emerson


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