[Sca-cooks] Re: [Sca-cooks) onion soup...

[Jane Boyko]

I agree with onion soups being thin and possibly leaking through the bread 
bowl.  Why is is necessary to have an onion soup?  Since you are doing 
Russian what about a borscht?  It would still be too thin for the bread bowls 
but you could serve a hearty crusty type bread to go with it.  I did this 
once at a feast and had people come up to me afterwards telling me that I had 
converted them to eating beets and could they please have the recipe.

I can share the one I use if you wish.

Marina

On 02/10/04 02:17 am, Stefan li Rous wrote:
> Lady Elizabeth Dabernoune explained:
> > I would like to use bread bowls for service. I was thinking of your
> > standard French onion but I am open for suggestions.
>
> Hmmm. I have my hesitations about serving an onion soup in a bread
> bowl. Most onions soups are fairly thin and you said you, and
> presumably your staff, haven't done a large feast before. I think you
> have a relatively short time before a thin soup makes a soggy mess out
> of a bread bowl or starts leaking through. If this is your first large
> feast, you may not have all the details down so well that the bowls
> with the soup, don't sit too long waiting to go out.
>
> You might be able to solve this by putting the soup on a cart or carts,
> bring along the bread bowls and fill these at the table as you serve
> them.
>
> However, I would recommend substituting a thick soup or stew instead.
> Here is a Florilegium file with some recipes:
> stews-bruets-msg  (65K)  5/24/00    Period stews and bruets. Recipes.
> http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD-MEATS/stews-bruets-msg.html
>
> Many of these do include onions if you are specifically looking for a
> dish with that ingredient.
>
> > Period would be nice but my priorities are presentation and something
> > people will really eat. Us
> > Ansteorrians are hungry people.
>
> Ansteorrans will eat period foods. Ask Gunthar. :-)
>
> We have recently discussed a few things about presentation. If you will
> tell us some of what else you are thinking of serving and what the
> event site will be like, perhaps the folks on this list can give you
> some other ideas about presentation. If you are looking for sotelties
> or illusion foods, I can also point you to several files about them.
>
> :-)
>
> For which event is this going to be for? Perhaps my lady wife and I
> will make the voyage up to Elfsea. I don't know if you will have need
> for a walk-in cook, but if you are interested in a beginning one
> perhaps I can help out.
>
> Stefan
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>     Mark S. Harris           Austin, Texas
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