[Sca-cooks] Spanish Vigil Food
lilinah at earthlink.net
lilinah at earthlink.net
Thu Nov 18 15:42:11 PST 2004
A friend is getting her Laurel for Textile Arts and i offered to cook
for her vigil. Her persona name is mixed Islamic/Spanish name, so i
thought, hmmm, Islamic and Spanish food...
First, since this is for a Vigil, we want to serve "finger food"
(loosely defined), not a whole balanced meal.
Second, we'll be doing this in a hotel during Twelfth Night, where
we've been told by the management that we can't serve hot food
(insurance reasons?). So no cooking on site. I'm imagining bringing
precooked food in a cooler, filling the bath tub with steaming hot
water, and warming up bags of food. And i do have a crock pot, so
unless they've got special hot food sensors in the rooms...
And third, we don't want really messy stuff. We want to keep the room
clean and make eating and discarding comparatively simple. And not
have folks dripping all over their nice Twelfth Night garb. So not a
lot of really wet stuff, except for beverages.
And finally, we don't know our budget, so we don't want to be
selecting the most expensive stuff.
I have a bunch of Islamic recipes i've sent to folks in other
Kingdoms who have asked for period Islamic food suitable for Vigils.
A friend who also cooking and i have gone over them and chosen a nice
selection.
Now i'm trying to make a selection of Spanish food.
I found a few possible recipes in the Manual de Mujeres.
Now i'm going through de Nola. I've found a few dishes that look
usable, such as the sweet Torta Genovese.
But it looks like a huge percentage of the recipes are for sauces, if
i'm reading right - all those Potaje/Pottage - many appear to be
sauces rather than soups. And I'd like something other than cooked
meat with dippin' sauces from the Spanish corpus.
Can any of the Spanish specialists suggest some other things? Other
Spanish cookbooks are fine.
I have Libre de Totes Maneres de Confits in Spanish. I could probably
translate a few recipes, but my Spanish isn't good enough just to
scan through it and pick out potential recipes. So i need some
guidance.
Let me add that here in The West folks are quite happy to eat real
SCA-period food and even "weird" period food.
Thanks for any suggestions,
Anahita
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