[Sca-cooks] Class ideas

[Aurore]

All great class ideas.  Half I'm not interested in but the other half I'm
interested in, I pray they don't time together or overlap time.  So who's
setting it up and when? ;D  Aurore



>
>> My camp-mate and I were thinking about different classes we'd be
>> interested in seeing in cookery (after he planned to attend 'when the
>>pottage hits the fan' under the impression it was going to be about
>> pottages!) And these are some we came up with:
>
>> Grain and Green Pottages
>> Choosing wines for medieval cooking
>> Deboning fresh fowl
>> How to carve [a chicken, a roast]
>> Humoral theory & Saucing
>> Orders of Food Service in the Kitchen & the Hall
>> Sallads, period-style
>> Period cooking terms
>> Spit roasting 101
>
> *********************
> Spit roasting 201--how to make the weighted apparatus that turns the spit
> slowly
> Period tablecloths
> A history of glassware for beverages
> A demo of how cooking tools are made of iron or wood
> Deboning and using all the edible parts of a fish
> A Map to Period Cuts of Meat and a translation to modern terms
> Bread Oven 101--How to make a bread oven
> Bread Oven 102--How to do the first firing
> Bread Oven 201--How to cook basic things in it
> Bread Oven 202--How to cook more advanced things
> Illusion Food 101--Beginning Marzipan
> Illusion Food 102--Intermediate Marzipan
> Illusion Food 201--Beginning Sugar Plate
> Illusion Food 202--Intermediate Sugar Plate
> Illusion Food 301--A Vase of Vegetable/Fruit Flowers
> Illusion Food 302--Other items carved from vegetables and fruit
> Illusion Food 401--Stained Glass Cookies
> Illusion Food 501--Other illusion foods
> Cooks Guild 101--How to Organize a Guild
> Cooks Guild 102--How to organize a team and preparation for an event
> Firebuilding 102--How to build and maintain fires and coals for various
> kinds of cooking
> Camp Cookery 101--Easy Camp Foods, Basic Health and Safety
> Camp Cookery 102--Intermediate Foods/techniques
> Camp Cookery 201--Advanced Foods/techniques
> Camp Cookery 202--More Advanced Foods/techniques
> Camp Cookery 301--Camping without a cooler and minimal cooking
> Camp Cookery 302--Camping without a cooler and a medium amount of cooking
> Wine 201--Making Wines for Medieval Cooking
> Wine 202--Making Vinegars for Medieval Cooking
> Home Olive Curing and Great Olive Marinades
> Food Preservation 101--Drying
> Food Preservation 102--Fermenting, Pickling
> Food Preservation 201--How to Build a Smoker
> Food Preservation 202--How to Smoke Foods
> Food Preservation 301--Basic Cheeses
> Food Preservation 302--Flavored Cheeses
> Food as Medicine 101-??? --Using foods and herbs to treat various
>       conditions, organized by either the condition or the food
> Mustards
> Mustard based sauces
> Fruit based sauces
> Food Related Aspects of the Period Marketplace
> Food Traderoutes
> How to make salt
> Methodical Recipe Recreation OR Ok, you tried it and didn't
>       like it.  What part of the recipe should you change for the next
try?
> Beyond Sekanjabin--other medieval nonalcoholic beverages
> Ethnic Food 101--??? A focus on the food items of various countries and
> groups with each class having a different focus.  And more than one class
> per country/group where the food items changed significantly over time
> Period Pottery 101-??? A focus on the pottery and decorations on the
pottery
> of various countries and groups
> The Period Kitchen Garden 101--??? various countries and groups
> The Period Herb Garden 101--??? various countries and groups
> The Period Orchard 101--??? various countries and groups
> Sourdough 101--Care and feeding of starters, basic breads
> Sourdough 102--Intermediate Breads
> Sourdough 201--Advanced Breads
> Sourdough 202--Stuffed Breads
> Sourdough 301--Illusion Breads
> Medieval Table and Hall Decor
> Medieval Picnics, Period and/or Modern with Period style food
> Slides from an Archeological Site--How we used bones, shells,
>     empty or broken containers, and microscopic pollen from middens to
tell
> what they ate
> Four Days in the Life from Four Different Seasons of  a "Insert Medieval
> Food Related Job Here"
>
> Sharon
> gordonse at one.net