[Sca-cooks] Feast yesterday....

[Elaine Koogler]

Stephen Bloch wrote:

> I wrote:
>
>> We were at this event too.  It wasn't the most elaborate feast, but 
>> every single dish was both tasty and at least plausibly period. (The 
>> menu on the table listed the names of the dishes, and their 
>> ingredients, but didn't mention where each recipe came from.  We 
>> recognized a few as being from Chiquart or Menagier, and the rest 
>> wouldn't have been out of place there.)  Servers kept coming by the 
>> table to take away our leftovers from previous courses, and we kept 
>> sending them away empty-handed because we thought we MIGHT want 
>> seconds (or thirds) of this dish or that.
>>
>> I tried to get some leftover chicken to take home, but it was gone. I 
>> scored some Brussels sprouts and a whole sambocade, though....
>
>
> One other interesting feature of the event that I forgot to mention: 
> dinner was served starting around 4:30 PM.  (We've been discussing 
> afternoon feasts on the EK Cooks' list.)  I thought it worked well 
> (particularly for those of us who didn't realize there was no lunch 
> dayboard, and were pretty hungry by then :-) ) and left time for 
> dancing afterwards.  Unfortunately, by the time dinner ended, there 
> was a quarter of an inch of snow on the ground, so people started 
> panicking and driving home.  By 8 PM the chairs and tables were put 
> away and the floors were being swept, which I don't think was the 
> original plan....

Wish I had known you were there...I'd love to have met you.  Maybe you 
can come join us for Coronation, which will be, as I said, not too far 
away from where this event was...

Kiri