[Sca-cooks] a successful day

[karobert at unm.edu]

well... considering the food was served in a classroom
(literally...classroom in a bldg at university of new mexico) with no
heating, cooling or washing area.... with the surprise of two very small
tables and a limit of feeding 100 people two meals with $250  i can say
it all went well....

with two killer drop dead assistants and a pantheon of some of the best
(and most prolific and enthusiastic) bakers in the kingdom....

all buffet style (from those two weasley tables with paper and plastic
due to the venue)  the desserts were on a huge (at least 36" across)
tray balanced on three desks with a drink station on an end table in the
back of the room...

not perfectly period but close enuf for the budget and conditions.  you
will note a definite heraldic theme when possible....

Outlands Heralds and Scribes Symposium Menu 

BREAKFAST

Assorted sweetbreads, egg breads, scones and pastries 
Hard boiled eggs
Sliced ham
Butter
Jams
Honey
Lemon curd
grapes
the ubiquitous coffee and tea

LUNCHEON

Sausage, pear and onion pies with sweet spices
Porter beef pies
Cheese and mushroom tarts
Ember day tarts
Spinach and cheese tarts
Sliced Brisket
Poached chicken
Salat  (greens only dressed with olive oil, wine vinegar and salt)
Lombard Mustard and Horseradish sour cream
Strawberries, grapes and apples
Pickles and olives
Pickled carrots (kinda like composte, only just carrots as veg)
Assorted breads

cream cheese mints in peppermint, clove and spearmint in pink rose,
white fluer and green leaf molds respectively

Cookies.......   mostly sugar cookies baked in heraldic shapes with
appropriate decoration... mullets, coronets, suns, acorns, apples,
swans, doves, stags, oak leaves, fluers, stags heads cabossed facing
right and left, scallop shells, heats and lozenges....

shortbread baked in beautiful dishes with celtic knotwork

pizzelles (a kingdom favorite)

and the still ubiquitous sugar cookies in quill shapes and heater
shapes.... heaters had kingdom and baronial arms painted on them, and
small ones had fields and charges painted on them...   the baker was
insane and a treasure!

this tired little cat came home, had two glasses of wine, some take out
chicken and potato salad (anyone else hate to eat what they spent weeks
cooking?) in is resting on her laurels (almost no leftovers other than
cookies ... and there was a metric buttload.... which will be used at
another event in two weeks)

the atkins people were happy, the vegetarians were happy and the 'i
don't want to eat/like period food people' were happy.... 

but ya know... there's a glass of bourbon and coke calling my name
before bed, which will be soon......

cailte
kitchen witch extraordinaire.... ;)