[Sca-cooks] MK 12th Night feast

[Pixel, Goddess and Queen]

is over! Yay!

I was fairly quiet about it on the list, but I suppose I should at least
post the menu.

The theme for the event was nominally Irish, but with the Baronial
changeover plus it being Kingdom 12th Night, there wasn't a whole lot of
Irishing going on. I initially came up with a lavish 13th c. Norman-Irish
feast, that is, what would have been plausible for the Norman overlords in
13th c. Ireland.

The final feast was a tad less lavish, due to a slight complication or
two. The site wouldn't let us use their equipment without a catering
license (although we could use the surfaces and sinks), so we set up a
field kitchen just outside in one of those ez-up canopy things with some
heavy-duty propane stoves, and inside we had a bunch of those 18-qt
roasters.

Yes, we couldn't cook using their *gas*, but we could cook using their
electricity. Go figure.

I'd initially planned the courses using humoral theory, but with the
simplifications, things got rearranged a tad. But there was no honey
butter.

On the tables:
bread (two kinds, a cooked-grain yeasted griddle bread, and adorable
little round wastel loaves)
butter
salt
soft white cheese (I got carried away on the cheese, made WAY too much)

1st course:
hennys in bruet
caboches in potage
elk with perverade (yes, I served elk)
barley (originally fermenty, got simplified a bit)

2nd course:
cormarye
losyns
tarts in applis
porray of pesen

3rd course:
rysmole
darioles
syrosye (made with dried cherries)


All in all, it went quite well considering the negative wind chills and my
ongoing laryngitis, plus the other limitations.

Margaret