[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
>
>
>_______________________________________________
>Sca-cooks mailing list
>Sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
>http://blackstar.ansteorra.org/mailman/listinfo/sca-cooks

_________________________________________________________________
On the road to retirement? Check out MSN Life Events for advice on how to 
get there! http://lifeevents.msn.com/category.aspx?cid=Retirement




More information about the Sca-cooks mailing list