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

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

On Sep 11, 2006, at 7:55 PM, Saint Phlip wrote:

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

If you'd been able to get there, you'd have seen Countess Brekke's  
basting and beating spoon. It's quite scary. I've got a big,  
handcarved spoon my brother made from an oak boll, and I've bought  
the Province several large, long-handled wooden spoons, suitable for  
stirring 40-quart pots (which spoons seem to have vanished over the  
years), but Brekke's is basically a hiking staff with a bowl on the  
end, and nearly as thick as my wrist.

You won't see _me_ messing with her!

A.


>
> 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....
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