[Sca-cooks] Red Tower Cooking contest

[Sharon Gordon]

Trying to think of what might be seasonally available and in the form they
would have been in this time of year in Europe:

Duck Eggs
A whole chicken or duck with all of it's edible parts, cleaned and
defeathered
Some bones that could be used to create a good gelatin or aspic
A portion of unsliced bacon
Sourdough Starter--live solution that's been fed in previous 24 hours
Fresh Plums
Fresh Cherries
Dried Cherries
Dried figs
Strawberries from a pick your own farm that are actually ripe (people
usually have experience with the green picked supermarket strawberries)
Bottled Bitter (sour) Orange Juice
Verjuice
Black current juice or syrup
Elderberry juice or syrup
Fresh or Freshly dried Elderberry Flowers
Fresh Spring Garlic
A Fresh herb that your group doesn't usually have access to fresh
Fresh ginger
Whole mustard seed
Unshelled fresh regular peas
Barley
Whole Wheat berries (alert contestants to optionally bring something to
grind grains)
Spelt
Carrots in colors other than orange
Parsnips
Parsley root
Baby root vegetables with their greens on such as beets, turnips, radishes
Spring onions
Fresh fava beans
Fresh grape leaves of the sort that are good to eat
Edible flowers (organic and unsprayed) such as pansy, viola, violets,
dianthus/pinks, chives
Escarole
Tips and flowers of organic and unsprayed pea (food type) plants
Raw milk  or whole goats milk, or true whole milk that has been pasturized
but not homogenized
One or more items that could be used to turn milk into cheese
A less common cheese
An olive mix, either plain or commercially marinated in herbs (avoid
potential botulism problems of home marinated garlic in oil mixtures by
using commercial versions.  If contestants marinate on their own for the
contest, they should be under refrigeration, in a cooler, etc.)
Raw shelled nuts such as almonds or walnuts
An interestingly flavored honey such as orange blossom


Sharon
gordonse at one.net