[Sca-cooks] Soup at feasts
K C Francis
katiracook at hotmail.com
Tue May 16 15:29:08 PDT 2006
I love the soups served at feasts here in the West. Just had the most
incredible broth (served from a pitcher to each diner). A cart with the big
pot and ladle brought around the tables seems to work fine and keeps the
drips contained therein. A thick soup also reduces any slopping when
passing the bowls back. I haven't encountered any problems and I don't see
the concern. Have you seen some bad spills or something? I think a soup is
a really good dish for a feast and miss it when there isn't one.
>From: "Michael Gunter" <countgunthar at hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: Cooks within the SCA <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
>To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
>Subject: [Sca-cooks] Soup at feasts
>Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 11:23:44 -0500
>
>>one person began to gripe [admittedly, mildly] about a lack of soup on my
>>menu.
>>
>>As it happens, I did not add a soup to the menu, but Mistress Andrea did
>>add one to hers, for the dayboard. The gentle who had requested it
>>proceeded to show up late and almost missed it.
>>
>>Adamantius
>
>I never served soup at my feasts, mainly because most of the time
>my feasts fed several hundred people and the logistics of serving
>soup never seemed to to warrant it when other dishes could be
>done just as well. I've had soup but it always seemed rather hazardous.
>Often a couple of people hauling around a large pot of hot liquid in
>close quarters or something equally scary. There was one feast where
>they went around with large pitchers and that seemed to work.
>
>Now if I were serving from a kitchen or directly from a cooking area
>it's not so bad. And I remember Atenveldt's War Practice Soup kitchen
>with particular fondness. The only time I can remember serving soup
>at one of my feasts was when we did the open kitchen at our Black
>Oak Keep championships and served out of a huge iron cauldron on
>the fire. That was fun.
>
>I love soup though, I just shudder at figuring out how to serve it to
>a large crowd.
>
>Gunthar
>
>
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