[Sca-cooks] French table Service and Web site

[vicki shaw]

Yea, well dont get too excited!  Wait until you read the last part!  Lol!
It is done, and presented here below:

Oh no!  The first part of part four, then, was sent truncated!  My daughter
arrived and I had to leave, but I inteded to just hold what I had typed in
the  the outbox until I could finish it, but it went anyway!  These things
are always "operator error"  never the machine.....  oh no, Goddess forbid!

So here is what I sent plus the rest of part 4

This does not mean that the prince is instantly served since the cup bearer,
once he has received the signal, takes the goblet in his hand and the cup
and must hold the goblet raised high so his breath does not come in contact
with it [pollute].  The hall bailiff opens the way for him and when the
sommelier sees him coming, he fills his ewer with fresh water and refreshes
the goblet in the hand of the cup bearred both inside and out, then takes a
cup in the left hand and the mouth pot [?] in the right hand, and first
pours into the cup he is holding, and then into the goblet, and then takes
the ewer and pours into the cup he is holding, an dthen into the goblet an
dthen takes the ewer an dpours into the cup and then dilutes [??] the wine
into the goblet, according to his knowledge of the prince's taste
[preference] and his tolerance.
The wine watered, the cup bearer pours from his goblet into the cup he is
holding, covers the goblet once again - and he must hold the lid between the
two small fingers of the hand with which he holds the cup until he has
covered the goblet again, and given what he has poured in his cup to the
sommelier; and places in his own, and then the sommelier must perform the
trial [tasting] in front of him.  Thus the cup bearer brings the globlet to
the prince, uncovers the goblet and puts wine in his cup and then covers the
goblet again, and does his test [tastes the wine].  When the prince extends
his hand, the cup bearer hands him the uncovered goblet and places the cup
under the goblet until the prince has drunk."



Angharad ferch Iorwerth; MKA Vicki Shaw
Barony Beyond the Mountain
East Kingdom
vhsjvs at gis.net
www.omygoddess.biz

> Angharad,
> This is wonderful!  thanks so very much.
>
> Kiri