[Sca-cooks] An interesting proposal...

[Chass Brown]

Amish drink they just dont drink to intoxication. As for sideboards.. try 
home made apple butter and fresh bread and cubed cheese...

Chass Brown A.K.A.
Charinthalis Del Sans of the portable chariot
Honorable Recruiter of the House of the Red Shark
Member Ansteorran Royal Navy - Ship the Red Shark
Muddeler of Mead
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "marilyn traber 011221" <phlip at 99main.com>
To: "Cooks within the SCA" <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 10:15 AM
Subject: [Sca-cooks] An interesting proposal...


>A friend recently, after 9 years of litigation, has done the last court 
>date,
> and will finally be paid. He wants to celebrate with his friends and 
> family,
> and he has asked me to cook/supervise a Medieval feast. This will be in
> northern IL, in June.
>
> My food budget is $5000 for 200 people ($25 per person), and, in 
> discussion,
> he thought he'd like me to do period German. We'll have plenty of meats- 
> it's
> farm country, and we're discussing whole pigs, geese, and chickens, among
> other things.
>
> The kickers are this. My "field of operations" will be, essentially, a hay
> field, but I'll have a budget of roughly $15,000 to set it up as a kitchen 
> and
> a feast hall. Also, we're not cooking for your usual mundanes ;-) Most of 
> the
> guests will be Amish, and the rest will be blacksmiths ;-)
>
> I need ideas, for side dishes that can be conveniently done outside. I 
> need
> ideas for a dessert-type board. I would like to do a subtlety, preferably 
> as a
> surprise for the man- he's a good guy, and considering he's been almost
> starving these last few years, and one of his first thoughts was to share 
> the
> bounty with his friends, I want to make it as special as possible.
>
> And, I need recipes for small beer and a quick mead. Because of the Amish, 
> we
> want to avoid mose than minimal alcohol, although Terry's quite willing to
> compromise to make things more accurately period. I also need a recipe or 
> two
> for a period, completely non-alcoholic beverage, that would conceivably 
> served
> in Germany.
>
> Any thoughts any of you will have will be greatly appreciated. This should 
> be
> fun ;-)
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