[Sca-cooks] Sideboards....
Stefan li Rous
StefanliRous at austin.rr.com
Sat Mar 5 21:08:28 PST 2005
Ru asked:
> What kids of things do you put out on sideboards/dayboards?
>
> So many places do cheese and hard boiled eggs and bread and not a lot
> else and I am looking for some better ideas but hopefully
> less-expensive ones.
More elaborate dayboards have been served and mentioned here. In
particular, by Jadwiga.
> My standards are a beef-barley soup (loosely base on a quote from
> Platina. In a section on Groats he says "From groats, rice and pearl
> barley he (Celsus) says the best broths and gruels are made". I also
> try to put out a vegetarian soup as well. Platina also has a nice
> Broad Bean soup.
These can work, although in some dayboards folks sometimes avoid soups
because they are more difficult for folks to "grab and go". Sometimes
finger foods are preferred.
> I'm not tied to an area or writer however. Anywhere/time is fine. My
> key is to make it tasty, warm, easy and relatively inexpensive.
You might be interested in these Florilegium files:
dayboards-msg (34K) 2/19/05 SCA dayboards, middle-of-the-day
meals.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/FEASTS/dayboards-msg.html
Daybrd-Advent-art (16K) 8/ 5/02 "Dayboard Adventures" by Jadwiga
Zajaczkowa.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/FEASTS/Daybrd-Advent-art.html
finger-fd-fst-art (13K) 9/15/98 A light supper feast using finger
foods.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/FEASTS/finger-fd-fst-art.html
finger-foods-msg (24K) 9/ 2/02 Ideas for finger foods at feasts
and events.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD/finger-foods-msg.html
Stefan
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THLord Stefan li Rous Barony of Bryn Gwlad Kingdom of Ansteorra
Mark S. Harris Austin, Texas
StefanliRous at austin.rr.com
**** See Stefan's Florilegium files at: http://www.florilegium.org ****
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