[Sca-cooks] My First Christmas Dinner

[Heleen Greenwald]

Wow!  What a terrific sounding meal. I bet everything was delicious!!  Glad
your m-i-l was in a good mood!
Vivats to you!
Phillipa
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Sent: Friday, December 26, 2003 8:44 AM
Subject: [Sca-cooks] My First Christmas Dinner


> Some of you may remember me saying a few weeks ago that my in-laws were
> coming for Christmas and I'd be cooking my first holiday dinner by myself.
I had
> also asked for suggestions for appropriate medieval foods to include.
Figured
> I'd let you see the final menu.  My mother-in-law, by the way, appeared to
be
> extremely pleasantly surprised with the meal.  I think she thought I
couldn't
> handle it.
>
> Roast turkey, rubbed with sage, salt and pepper and basted with chicken
broth
> for the first basting.
>
>  Stuffing, cooked in the bird, made of torn up bread, salt, celery leaves
> (dried; I wasn't going to buy a whole stalk of celery to get fresh), dried
> parsley, onion, butter, and beaten egg and milk.
>
> Giblet gravy made from the pan drippings and the water from boiling the
> giblets.
>
> Steamed broccoli with a little butter
>
> Spynoches yfryed from Forme of Cury - parboil the spinach, drain it well,
> chop slightly, saute in olive oil and sprinkle with sugar, cinnamon, and
ginger
>
> Mashed sweet potatos with butter, milk, salt, and pepper
>
> Ryse of Flessh, also from Forme of Cury - rice cooked in chicken broth,
then
> enriched with an almond milk made by simmering more broth, ground almonds,
and
> saffron.
>
> My father-in-law brought his homemade cranberry sauce, and my
mother-in-law
> brought three plates of Christmas cookies, 3/4 of a "Gourmet Turtle
Cheescake"
> and a whole Key  Lime cheesecake.  A few of the cookies got eaten, but
none of
> the cheesecake.  When they left, she took back with them half of each of
the
> cheesecakes.
>
> Overall quite a successful day.  I was worried, as my mother-in-law is
very
> unpredictable and is quite capable of being the world's worst guest (or
> hostess) if she's in the right mood.  Fortunately she was in a good mood
yesterday.
>
> Brangwayna
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