[Sca-cooks] Henry VIII Eat Like a King Special

[Stefan li Rous]

Selene Colfox commented:
> I didn't find too much to complain about.  Fiddly little things, like
> calling a subtlety a "deception"


I agree. On the whole, it seemed good and certainly better than many
period documentaries made for the masses. I thought they were going to
equate a "deception" to what we typically call "illusion food" but it
included items I would have considered sotelties. So is the term
"deception" a period term for such food items?


> and making it look like their food historian was the one who discovered the
> recipe for hipocras.
> On the whole, it was a good hour of information.  Next step, a how-to show!
> This is where we come in.  Bwahaha.

Maybe. Most of us have cooked with modern utensils in a modern kitchen, not
in a period style one.


> They may have substituted spices in the website recipes for the masses but
> they showed the real stuff on-screen
> during the show.  I know Grains of Paradise, long pepper, etc. when I see
> them and they got
> them all right.

Yes, I noticed the long pepper in particular, and also the Grains of
Paradise.

>I think I'd like to spend a week or two with the nice
> people in the Tudor outfits
> who were working in the period kitchen there.  Not everyone's idea of a
> vacation, is it?

Well, a lot of folks probably think the same when I describe my Pennsic
vacation.


Pardon me, if you've just recently seen this file mentioned in

another thread, but you might find this article on working in just
such a restored period kitchen interesting:

Kentwell-Hall-art (25K)  6/25/98    A period kitchen at a Living History site.

http://www.florilegium.org/files/FEASTS/Kentwell-Hall-art.html
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