[Sca-cooks] Brief Drachenwald 10th Year Celebration report

[Christina Nevin]

Saluti everyone!

Well, Drachenwald 10th Year Celebration has come and gone, and I think the
feast can be considered to have been a success. :-) I've finally recovered
(and remembered to turn my SCACooks Digest back on!). The site, which was a
medieval-onwards castle (Schloss Bergau) had a lovely medieval hall, so the
atmosphere was great to begin with.

The weather was clear, brilliantly sunny and very hot. The one day I'd
prefer it not to be! Fortunately the kitchen tent was beside the moat, and
there was a cool breeze coming off it. Around lunch we started working on
the feast. The Maltese (the German Red Cross people we hired the camp
kitchen off, there being no onsite kitchen) crew were to do the cooking
(they didn't want us near their stoves!), we just needed to do everything
else. 

The feast, which was mainly C.14 and C.15th recipes, was as follows - 

Course 1: Sesame & Pumpkin seed topped bread rolls, Chickpea soup, Smoked
Trout, Walnut & Garlic Bread Sauce, Lumbard Honey Mustard, Plum Pudding. 
Course 2: Roast Chicken (catered), Cheese and Garlic Sauce, Grape and Apple
Sauce, Fried Spinach with Spices, Marinated Cucumbers, Pottage of Rice with
Saffron Almond Milk; 
Course 3: Apple/Cherry Pie, Cherries, Strawberries, Apples, Pears, Nuts,
Dried Fruits, Nougat, Candied Almonds, Gouda Cheese. 

There were no crises, amazingly enough (not that I'm complaining). There was
one point I had the horrific impression they were deep-frying the spinach,
rather than frying or sautéing it, which made me break out into giggles (it
was either that or scream), but it was just that the griddle plate was quite
deep in the stove surface so made a different noise than expected. Phew!

Apparently everyone enjoyed it and had enough to eat. Problems with serving
that number (there were 340, which is by far and away the largest feast DW
has ever had) meant it went in a bit slow and the subtleties procession
hijacked our timetable (without even asking me :-( , but other than that it
seemed to go well, which was a huge relief.  
The recipes, if you're interested, are posted here:
www.thorngrove.net/athenaeum/10YC-feast.htm
Apparently the plum pudding, chickpea soup, and walnut & garlic sauce were
particularly nice.   

ciao,
Lucrezia

Al Servizio Vostro 
Lady Lucrezia-Isabella di Freccia

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Lady Lucrezia-Isabella di Freccia | mka Tina Nevin
Thamesreach Shire, Insula Draconis, Drachenwald | London, UK
http://www.thorngrove.net | thorngrove at thorngrove.net
"There is no doubt that great leaders prefer hard drinkers 
to good versifiers." Aretino 1536
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