[Sca-cooks] Period Foods: How to Fake It!

[Cera Chonaill]

The question isn't about proclaiming an item to be period when it's not but 
fooling the eye and taste to give a lunch or off board table the feel/look 
of period. When people as you tell them what it is, that way they can see 
that it doesn't take that much effort or time to trying to make a table 
feel/look more period.

Cera


>From: Huette von Ahrens <ahrenshav at yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: Cooks within the SCA <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
>To: Cooks within the SCA <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
>Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Period Foods: How to Fake It!
>Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2003 09:19:19 -0800 (PST)
>
>I have never "faked" anything.  If I ever served
>non-period food, I always stated that it was
>non-period.  I have an extreme dislike of people
>who try to pass stuff off as period when it
>isn't.
>Why?  Because there will be someone new who will
>come along, see what you have done, emulate it
>and think that they are doing period work when
>they are not.  When you then ask them about their
>"research", their answer will invariably be "Lady
>Soandso did it and she would never do anything
>non-period, would she?"
>
>The only "faking" that I recall doing was as a
>banquet joke.  I was doing a Viking banquet when
>Selene jokingly suggested that we include
>lutefisk.  Knowing that few would eat real
>lutefisk, I made modern almond jello in
>fish-shaped molds and served it as "lutefisk".
>Those who actually tried the dish got the joke.
>And I never passed off almond jello as period.
>
>Huette
>
>--- Cera Chonaill <cera_chonaill at hotmail.com>
>wrote:
> > I’m looking a running a simple periods cooking
> > discussion at our 12th night
> > (the feast of fools) on how to do period
> > lunches and off board meals without
> > needing to research recipes. Bottom line, how
> > to make it appear and even
> > possibly taste like period food without any
> > real work. Things like foods
> > that can be prepped ahead of time, stand up to
> > travel and can be eaten cold.
> >
> > To this end, for the fun of it, I thought I’d
> > ask the list, how have you
> > faked it in the past. What more modern recipes
> > have you passed of as period
> > (looking) to make your life simpler and table
> > spread look more authentic?
> > Before you answer that, BBQ chicken for the
> > grocery store doesn’t count
> > since whom here hasn’t done that at least once.
> > :-)
> >
> > In Service and making a messing of her kitchen,
> >
> > Cera
> >
> >
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