[Sca-cooks] Things to BUY at Pennsic

[Jadwiga Zajaczkowa / Jenne Heise]

> My protege was not particularly interested in sewing, until it was 
> pointed out that a sewing machine wasn't some girly thing, it was a 
> POWER TOOL. <insert official Tim The Toolman Grunt here>  A power fabric 
> joining tool to be more precise.  Since then, he has gone great guns and 
> makes his own garb.  When you make your own, you get whatever YOU want!

*snort* one of my former household sisters is a whiz with power tools, but 
she will NOT deal with sewing machines-- any straight long seams have to 
be sewn by her boyfriend. Needless to say she does really fine 
handsewing.

I, on the other hand, am perfectly happy USING sewing machines (well, 
except for the fact that since my mom's old Kenmore died I just can't get 
the speed I want out of them...) it's the fiddling around inside them and 
fighting with the thread, and anything involving FITTING or anything more 
than the most basic of patterns that I can't stand.

To bring this back to SCA cooking, I don't do modern recipes well either, 
too many finicking steps that seem not to make sense, even in packaged 
foods (for instance, when I make packaged foods that call for milk, I use 
dried milk reconsitituted. Why can't they just put the dried milk in the 
sauce packet and have you add water?)

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-- Jadwiga Zajaczkowa, Knowledge Pika jenne at fiedlerfamily.net 
"Hero not the handsome actor who plays a hero's role. Hero not the glamour 
girl who'd love to sell her soul." - Rush, Nobody's Hero