[Sca-cooks] Bad Cooking at Feasts - was Re: good taste

[Kerri Martinsen]

oohhh... now I'm curious as to what they were suppose to be.  Do you remember if they were they fried? steamed?  baked?  did they have a filling?

Sorry - I'm in a Damphknodel phase right now so it fits right in.  

Vitha
apprentice bread baker that still has so-so luck with her starter....

-----Original Message-----
>From: "Lonnie D. Harvel" <aoghann at gmail.com>
>Sent: May 22, 2006 2:18 PM
>To: Cooks within the SCA <sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org>
>Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Bad Cooking at Feasts - was Re: good taste
>
>The one that has stuck in my memory for 20+ years were the Desiccation
>Balls. I am not sure what they were supposed to be. Delightful looking
>little balls of baked dough. Pop them in your mouth, and by some
>strange chemical or magical property, every ounce of moisture was
>sucked out of you. The feast hall erupted into fits of hacking and
>coughing with desperate grabs for any available liquid. Quite a
>frightening experience. There was actually a moment when I thought I
>was going to choke.
>
>I have absolutely no memory of anything else that was served. Probably
>due to the loss of brain cells when I couldn't breathe.
>
>Aoghann
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