[Sca-cooks] a successful day

[Ana Valdés]

Congratulations!
Ana, envious and inspired by your cookings skills!


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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