[Sca-cooks] Medieval Cooking 201

[chirhart_1 at netzero.net]

And last but not least "Don't scare off the unhired help"
from Uncle Chirhart
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From: "caointiarn" <caointiarn1 at juno.com>
To: "Cooks within the SCA" <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 9:16 PM
Subject: [Sca-cooks] Medieval Cooking 201


> > Olwen wrote off the "top of her head" :  {ouch! doesn't that hurt?!}
> > A list of pointers to different lists/sites/etc is definately a good
idea
> but I agree there is lots more to the head cook process besides deciding
on
> a menu.
> > Beginning with bidding for the event if that is a necessary step where
> they  live.
> > Deciding with the autocrat any theme.
> > Is lunch, fighters fare, etc coming from feast budget.
> > When is money available for draw-down.
> > Rounding up reliable kitchen staff.
> > Portion control and how to expand the existing recipe to feed how many
> people.<
>
>     All of this and plenty more gets covered in my Head Cook class  -- 
> beginning with: "BEFORE you volunteer to be Head Cook, this is what you
need
> to do . . . .
>
>   For the Kitchen Wench class,   I was thinking more along the lines of
cool
> cooking/kitchen techniques to teach people wanting to do more in a kitchen
> than peel & chop veggies/ scrub pots.
>
> But thank you for all the suggestions so far!
> Caointiarn
>
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