[Sca-cooks] Sca-cooks Digest, Vol 8, Issue 62

Wed Dec 27 20:03:44 PST 2006

  Benedicte, 
  For the past 20+ years I have 'helped the bishop of Myra by letting him use my corporal being' to quote a certain Northshield princess...
  I have dressed in Oriental(Byzantine) episcopal vestment and deposited coins in shoes in a few select houses...on several occasions The Bishop appeared during the day and 'grilled' the inhabitants about their various respective religious traditions and rewarded them with either sweets or with a switch from his faithful, yet unwilling, demonic servant "Schwartz Pieter" !!

  I always wondered about Black Peter, and how a Saint came to have a demon for a servant, til I read in a collection of St. Nicholaus legends, dating from the mid 14th cen, so at least known in period if not HIS period... That this particular demon had been assigned to annoy the saint by foiling his charitable aims by disclosing his anonimity....Bishop Nicholaus apprehended the demon and instead of exorcising him back to Hades, used a trick Our Lord taught him and instead of sending him into a herd of swine, simply made him bear his pack and assist him...can't quite imagine a penalty more humiliating for a demon than being made to do good works for a saint!!

  Johann

  1. Re: Half an outcast! (Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius)
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Message: 1
Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2006 17:11:27 -0500
From: "Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius" 
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Half an outcast!
> On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 15:52:26 -0500
> "Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius"
> wrote:
>
>> I'm thinking Santa Claus is similar -- I don't have any
>> evidence that
>> there's an old fat man with a white beard (actually I
>> never thought
>> of him as all that old, or even all that fat). He just
>> makes a
>> convenient conceptual explanation for otherwise
>> unexplained phenomena.
>
> thank you coca cola.

And Clement C. Moore, whose family, BTW, had owned the farmland that 
was later to be designated as a goodly chunk of Queens County, 
including that chunk where I'm now sitting, since the seventeenth 
century...
>
> say, how far back does the image of santa claus or saint
> nicholas go... as we might see it or in period.

Well, since we have some fairly recent images (say, late 19th 
century) of Saint Nicholas in his Christmassy incarnation that don't 
fit the "standard" modern red-suit model, I suspect it's quite 
recent. Of course, some of the older images of SC in episcopal garb 
might well be period -- _he_ certainly is.
>
> we have had several kings and queens at our midwinters
> dress in red with white fut trim. sometimes i am reminded
> of the finale of 'white christmas' when i see them, but is
> there something historical to tweak the collective modern
> consciousness?

All I know is that when I am the benevolent ruler of the planet I 
intend to seriously limit the wearing of red stocking caps with white 
fur pom-poms and trim only to licensed individuals. Wearers not on 
legitimate SC business, but who think such caps make them look cool 
will be seriously and officially subjected to behavioral modification 
techniques.

Adamantius

"S'ils n'ont pas de pain, vous fait-on dire, qu'ils mangent de la 
brioche!" / "If there's no bread to be had, one has to say, let them 
eat cake!"
-- attributed to an unnamed noblewoman by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 
"Confessions", 1782

"Why don't they get new jobs if they're unhappy -- or go on Prozac?"
-- Susan Sheybani, assistant to Bush campaign spokesman Terry 
Holt, 07/29/04

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Message: 2
Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2006 14:17:45 -0800
From: "Celia des Archier" 
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Speaking of Oats (was steel cut oats - was
haggis OOP)
To: "'Cooks within the SCA'" 
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I saw that, too, at Albertsons. It wasn't quite as dramatic a price
difference here, though. I gauge price difference by the per unit price and
the Quaker was 24 oz vs. the McCann's was 28 oz and the price came out to
.285 cents per oz for the McCann's vs. .250 cents per oz for the Quaker, so
I went with the McCann's since I'd seen them recommended many times. 

I, too, found it interesting that Quaker was now selling steel cut oats. It
tells me that the word is getting out and they're becoming more popular. 

I've since heard that you can get steel cut oats much less expensively from
the natural food store in bulk, so I'm checking that out when these are gone
:-) 

-----Original Message-----
From: sca-cooks-bounces at lists.ansteorra.org
[mailto:sca-cooks-bounces at lists.ansteorra.org] On Behalf Of Kathleen A
Roberts
Sent: Friday, December 22, 2006 9:35 PM
To: Cooks within the SCA
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Speaking of Oats (was steel cut oats - was haggis
OOP)

actually, husband-monster found a cannister of quaker 
brand steel cut oats at smith's this evening at a third of 
the price of mc cann's.

i didn't investigate too far, as i was busy amassing 
goodies for the yuletide feast, but i found it interesting 
they were there.

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