[Sca-cooks] Oh yum!
Huette von Ahrens
ahrenshav at yahoo.com
Sun Apr 22 17:17:39 PDT 2007
Yeah Lady Elspeth!
The menu sounds wonderful.
However, the proper and period terminology is 1st Course, 2nd Course, etc. Remove is
a Victorian word. So here is a mnemonic device to help you remember this:
Remove "remove" from your vocabulary. Of course, it's "course"!
Huette
--- Michelle LR <melbrigda at gmail.com> wrote:
> I rarely post, but I just have to brag about a wonderful feast I had last
> night. I attended the Barony of Osprey's (Kingdom of Meridies) Hit List
> yesterday and I have to say that the absolute highlight of the event (at
> least for me) was the scrumptious feast prepared by Lady Elspeth Forsythe
> (also a lurker on this list so she says :) ). The feast was as follows:
>
> 1st Remove
> Medieval Herb Bread with Honey Butter, Rosemary Butter and Whipped
> Butter
> Sallet of all kinds of Herbes and Flowers
> Pipefarces
>
> Notes: This was another feast where I really wish that bread wasn't
> served. Not because it wasn't good, but because I truly saw lots of people
> (including those at my table) gorging themselves on bread as they were
> starved when they sat down at table. The bread was delicious and
> delightful, but even I couldn't convince my table mates that there truly
> were three removes with 2 meats coming. I missed the flowers in the
> sallet. The herbs were perfect. There may have been flowers, but may have
> been on the top where my table mates ate them, but I missed them. The
> pipefarces provided humor for us as Lady Elspeth used several different
> cheeses. One person at our table asked what the cheese was and I said, "It
> tastes familiar. A harder cheese of some sort." Another person said, "No.
> It is definitely in the Swiss family." While a third said, "No no no. This
> is a cheddary cheese." It wasn't until I had a second that I realized that
> we were all correct in that she had used different cheeses. I liked the
> Asiago best.
>
> 2nd Remove
> Chicken Endored with Leek Sauce
> Armored Turnips
>
> Notes; I could have eaten the leek sauce like a soup. It was very
> flavorful and excellent. The chicken (on a stick :)) was wonderfully
> cooked. Cooked through and not turned into chicken jerky as oft happens
> with chicken on sticks at events. I liked that it was served on skewers as
> it made portioning very easy. I really had to resist eating a complete pan
> of armoured turnips myself. "There's another remove coming, Mel. There's
> another remove coming." Very very very nice. Best I have ever had!
>
> 3rd Remove
> Cormarye
> Spinach Tart
>
> Notes: This is where the "Mel you shouldn't have really eaten three
> servings of salad part kicked in." I persevered and had this remove, too.
> So glad I did. The pork was tender and I didn't feel that any one spice
> overwhelmed the other. I did taste the caraway initially, but the other
> spices did come through. The spinach tart was very good and full of spice
> and I had to force my tablemates to have a bite as to not miss this dish.
> Elspeth, the pie that had all the tips cut off the slices was from my
> table. :)
>
> 4th Remove
> Strawberries in Snow
>
> Notes: The only two "complaints" I have with this dish are that the
> strawberries would have been easier handled had they been sliced or at least
> quartered. Maneuvering those enormous strawberries (we grow them Ansteorran
> size down here) in the Styrofoam bowls was a bit difficult and I found the
> wine just a tad overwhelming. I totally lost the ginger in the
> strawberries. I'm not sure how to compensate as I wasn't quite sure what
> wine you used (the cinnamon kept masking what I was slurping :) ) I could
> have eaten a bowl of the "snow" alone.
>
> The dishes were well announced by the hall steward and the servers (well at
> least ours, THL Jose Leodefridz) warned us of any potential allergens and
> repeated the dish being presented. Although that might have something to
> do with sweet Joselito being a cook himself. :)
>
> All in all a wonderful feast which I enjoyed immensely! Vivat, Lady
> Elspeth!!
>
>
> --
> Mel.
> The Honorable Lady Melbrigða Leifsdottir
> http://melbrigda.blogspot.com/
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