[Sca-cooks] Convivencia feast postmortem (LONG!!!)

[jenne at fiedlerfamily.net]

Thanks! By the way, I really want to express my appreciation for the work
that went into the miscellany and all the help Betty Cook and Cariadoc
offer to those of us on the list!

> Congratulations! Sounds like quite an effort for your first feast. A
> couple of suggestions (which you probably realize by now, but I'll
> make for others in that position):
>
> Bring lots of thermometers, both oven thermometers and meat
> thermometers. Use the oven thermometers before you have to start
> using the oven. I disovered this at a feast where one of the ovens
> turned out to be either on full blast or off--no intermediate
> options. The bread would have come out looking prettier if I had
> realized this earlier.
>
> My system for receipts, designed to make it very hard to lose them:
> have an envelope magnetted to the refrigerator, into which receipts
> are put; if necessary make notes on the receipt about what it was for
> before you put it in. As each goes in, put the total from that
> receipt on a list on the outside of the envelope. At the end, add up
> that column. The envelope never leaves that spot until I am handing
> over my final accounts for the event.
>
> Elizabeth/Betty Cook
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