[Sca-cooks] Cook's Prayer, was RE: 9/11 SCA cooks

[Saint Phlip]

Jeeze- this sounds like what Adamantius was SUPPOSED to do at the
Barleycorn feast. Anybody wanna make him a Fred Flintstone sized
spoon?

On 9/11/06, King's Taste Productions <kingstaste at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> This isn't exactly a prayer, more like words to live by:
>
> "The Cook orders, regulates and is obeyed in his Kitchen; he should have
> a chair between the buffet and the fireplace to sit on and rest if
> necessary; the chair should be so placed that he can see and survey
> everything that is being done in the Kitchen; he should have in his hand
> a large wooden spoon which has a double function:  one, to test pottages
> and brouets, and the other, to chase the children out of the Kitchen to
> make them work, striking them if necessary."
>
>
>
> Memoires
> Olivier de la Marche,
> Maitre d'Hotel, Capitaine des Gardes to
> Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy,
> mid-Fifteenth Century

-- 
Saint Phlip

Heat it up
Hit it hard
Repent as necessary.

Has anyone seen my temper?
I seem to have misplaced it at Stalag XXXV....