[Sca-cooks] a successful day

[Elaine Koogler]

Sounds wonderful. I just hope mine goes as well...though I'm wondering 
if I'm going to have anyone to cook for. Seems the event announcement 
isn't in the March edition of our Kingdom newsletter. So if no one knows 
about the event, it is doubtful anyone will come!

Sigh.

Kiri

karobert at unm.edu wrote:

>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.... ;)
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