[Sca-cooks] Illusion feast was Portuguese Cookbook

[Olwen the Odd]

*Very* cute!  Thank you so much for sharing!  I really look forward to 
seeing the results.  I hope you are taking pictures of the "works in 
progress".  Are you going to use the escargo shells on your snails?  Are the 
"spanish flies" made from raisins and cloves?  What did you make the walnut 
shell mold from?  I do not think I am familiar with the fish shaped fritters 
from Platina.  I have made (and will be making several more of for an 
upcoming - Feb 14th! - feast we are doing) the fried squash fish from the 
Andelusian booksite which are very cute so I am anxious to see yours.  How 
fun.  I love the presentation ideas you have!
Olwen
oh!  I can't wait to see how well your little apple eggs turn out!  They are 
so fun!

>Olwen the Odd wrote:
>
> > So tell us more about this illusions feast you are planning.  Or just me 
>if
> > you want it kept a secret for a while.  And MAKE SURE TO TAKE
> > PICTURES!!!!!!!!!!  Or I shall have to send some poison marzipan 
>along...
> > Olwen the very curious.
>
>We're working around a love theme for Bardic Madness, since it's being held 
>on
>February 14th. The actual menu posted to the Principality and Baronial 
>lists is
>much more mysterious, and leaves much more to the imagination.  First of 
>all, I
>need to thank the many knowledgeable and helpful individuals on this list 
>that
>helped set me on the right track to researching illusion foods!  We're 
>working
>on a feast booklet with recipes, sources and thank you's.  Once the event 
>is
>over I'll post it to the Yahoo group files.  Right now I'm concentrating on
>getting all the non edible aspects done before proceeding to the actual 
>foods.
>I also want to borrow my brother's digital camera and take many pictures to
>also post to the group files.  Oh, and yes, I am insane...just in case the 
>menu
>didn't tip you off.
>Faerisa
>
>On the Tables:
>
>-"Redressed" Peacocks:  bread bodies adorned with papier mache wings and
>necks/heads with skewers of vegetables, cheeses, eggs, sausage etc. for the
>tails.
>Inspired by salats for show only from The English Huswife 1615
>
>-Flavored butters piped in the shape of roses
>Inspired by Hugh Plat _Jewel-house of Arte & Nature_ 1594
>And 'Wolfenbüttel Manuscript' aka 'Mittelniederdeutsches Kochbuch', North
>germany, mid-15th century
>
>1st Course
>
>Presentation: The servers will be hidden behind a cloth painted with an
>underwater scene.  The swans will file out and wait on either side of the 
>cloth
>enclosure while the Castle of love is presented to the head table.  Then 
>they
>will each place a ‘swan’ on their respective tables, unclothe them with a
>flourish, and file back into the enclosure with the paper mache swans to
>process out again.
>
>-For Head Table, a Castle of Love inspired by De Fait du Cuisine 1420 
>escorted
>by a stream of paper mache swans (lined with tin foil) covering Chicken 
>with
>Orange Sauce
>-Heart shaped mushroom and cheese pasties
>-Sausage ‘snails’
>-Plums (or acorns) and oak leaves
>-‘Apple’ eggs (thanks for the cool idea Olwen!)
>-candied walnuts in sugar paste shells
>
>2nd Course
>
>Presentation: Neptune serves head table.  He rides a chariot (piece of 
>plywood
>with carpet glued on the bottom, fuzzy side down and cardboard waves on the
>sides) pulled by 2 seahorses (two people wearing masks and scaly tabbards).
>
>-Mock Turtle: a beef stew hidden in a pastry turtle
>-Rice served molded into the shape of a fish
>-salmon ‘carrots’
>-beef  and/or marrow ‘peascods’
>-faux oysters (aquapatis in sanitized oyster shells) with carved almond 
>pearls
>-a sugar plate crab filled with compost
>-‘fish newtons’ (fritters in the shape of fishes from Platina)
>
>3rd Course
>
>Presentation: a wild boar has been terrorizing the countryside.  He finds 
>his
>way into the kitchen, where he proceeds to devour the dessert course until 
>the
>cooks subdue him with pots and pans and manage to salvage what they can of 
>the
>food, appologetically presenting the remaining desserts along with the 
>entrails
>of the beast.
>
>-mock entrails with “spanish” flys
>-white gingerbread grapes
>-molded cookies in appropriate shapes
>
>
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