[Sca-cooks] tasting boards

[Stefan li Rous]

Jadwiga commented:
> Greetings! For the last six months, the revived East Kingdom Cooks 
> Guild
> has been doing tasting boards at different kingdm events. So far, 
> they've
> been excellent gathering and discussion points for cooks, and I believe
> that they may be fulfilling their primary purpose as well: educating
> people about period food. One feast-disliking laurel commented that
> while
> she didn't lke feast food, she does like what we produce for the
> tasting boards. :)
Interesting. I've never heard of anyone trying this before. I've tried 
to use the usual pot luck dinners, both inside and outside of the SCA, 
to introduce folks to period foods, but I've not heard of this. How are 
these set up? Similar to the food sampling tables that show up in the 
modern grocery stores on Saturdays? Or are these more formal, such as 
small classes? How many different food items are presented/sampled? All 
at one spot? Or different spots around an event?
> I'm very proud of myself: I cooked millet (with chicken broth), a 
> civey of
> chicken, and a simple salat for the last one.
Again, all at once? or at different times? I assume all at once, or at 
least at the same event, from your last comment.
> We've had some excellent other recipes make their appearencs too.
Such as?

Some interesting ideas.

Hmmm. I wonder if different comfits could be used to introduce folks to 
different medieval spices?

Stefan
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