[Sca-cooks] Luncheon Question

[Stefan li Rous]

Helena Sibylla asked about lunch ideas:
  >>>
I've been toying with the idea of trying to provide a more period
selection
of foods for lunch taverns.  Too often, the only the usual is
provided - hot
dog or bratwurst, cheese, soup, hard-boiled egg and so on - and I'd
like to
try offering things a little less obviously modern and more historic.
<<<

Well, there are period equivalents for each of those. See these  
Florilegium files for instance:
sausages-msg     (176K)  4/17/05    Period sausages. Making sausage.
cheese-lnks       (15K) 10/ 1/04    Links to medieval and modern cheese
                                        by Dame Aoife Finn of Ynos Mon.
cheese-msg       (124K)  3/28/04    Medieval cheese. Recipes.
onion-soups-msg   (36K)  4/29/06    Period onion soups.
soup-msg         (106K) 12/16/04    Medieval soups. Cooking soups at  
events.
                                        recipes.
eggs-stuffed-msg  (32K) 12/25/02    Period stuffed eggs dishes. Recipes.

  >>>
I know that many of you have done dayboards in a period style, but have
actual lunch taverns ever been offered?
<<<

Here are some lunch and tavern meal examples from the FEASTS section:
dayboards-msg     (34K)  2/19/05    SCA dayboards, middle-of-the-day  
meals.
Daybrd-Advent-art (16K)  8/ 5/02    "Dayboard Adventures" by Jadwiga  
Zajaczkowa.
   (Some the dishes used in these dayboards might be easily  
transportable to a lunch or even a tavern lunch)
finger-fd-fst-art (13K)  9/15/98    A light supper feast using finger  
foods.
   (Not billed as a lunch but sounds like some of the dishes might work)
hot-weth-fsts-msg  (4K)  6/21/01    Ideas and menus for hot weather  
feasts.
   (Just in case it was a summer meal you had in mind)
picnic-feasts-msg (12K)  7/ 6/01    Ideas for light, picnic style  
feasts.
Platina-Lunch-art  (8K)  5/24/01    An Italian lunch using recipes  
from Platina.
Tavern-Feast-art  (14K)  1/13/99    An all-day tavern-style feast.

And this is in the FOOD section:
14C-Fingerfds-art (10K) 10/14/01    "English - 14th Century Fingerfoods"
                                        by THL Kateryn de Develyn.

I hope these help give you some ideas.

Stefan
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THLord Stefan li Rous    Barony of Bryn Gwlad    Kingdom of Ansteorra
    Mark S. Harris           Austin, Texas           
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