[Sca-cooks] a successful day

[Stefan li Rous]

Cailte posted comments on:
> Outlands Heralds and Scribes Symposium Menu
>
> BREAKFAST
> Lemon curd
Did you make your own? Or use a store bought product?
> LUNCHEON
>
> Sausage, pear and onion pies with sweet spices
> Porter beef pies
With porter (beer?)? Was this from a period recipe? Can you please post 
this?
> cream cheese mints in peppermint, clove and spearmint in pink rose,
> white fluer and green leaf molds respectively
Huh? *cream cheese* mints? Sounds...unusual. Please post the recipe.
>
> 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....
Sounds like an interesting tool/carrot to teach children heraldry. 
Even, design and decorate your own heraldry. And then eat it.
>
> shortbread baked in beautiful dishes with celtic knotwork
>
> pizzelles (a kingdom favorite)
I assume you cooked these ahead of time. Was this a savory or a sweet 
recipe? Which one?
>
> 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!
...more edible heraldry.

Stefan
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THLord Stefan li Rous    Barony of Bryn Gwlad    Kingdom of Ansteorra
    Mark S. Harris           Austin, Texas          
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