[Sca-cooks] listing of ingredients...

[Elaine Koogler]

I guess we all have our war stories about this sort of thing...but I
remember a Baronial Investiture many years back in Atlantia (not ours!!)
where the cooks were brand new to doing this sort of thing.  They looked
through a magazine and picked out some recipes that had pretty pictures
attached, and bought food to make using those recipes.  They also agreed
with the autocrat that they could cook the feast if they didn't have access
to the kitchen until 3:00 (feast to be served at 6!!).  We found out, when
we got to the site that, out of an attack of stage fright, the cooks had
decamped, leaving food, but no recipes.  Four of us cooked a feast, not
totally period, 'cause the only cookbook we had amongst us was "Dining with
William Shakespeare," but it was as close as we could get it!!  We literally
made up dishes, cooked a few out of the book, but, of course, were limited
to the ingredients we found that the cooks had purchased.  To this day, I
have no idea how we pulled it off...but we were told afterwards that it was
a very good job.  That group will be celebrating their 25th anniversary in a
year or so...and Phillip and I have been asked to cook the feast...in memory
of that Investiture feast.

Kiri

On 2/25/07, Nick Sasso <grizly at mindspring.com> wrote:
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> -----Original Message-----
> < < < < Anytime anybody gives me trouble I threaten to spend their feast
> dollars on Tuna Helper. I've gone to the Betty Crocker website and
> found the most frightening new flavor (last time it was something
> like Cheesy Mexi-Tuna Enchilada) and done preliminary calculations
> for 400 servings. That always does the trick.
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> Adamantius  > > > > >
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> Several years years ago, at our Barony's 25th anniversary of the Kingdom's
> oldest running event, one of the Feast Cooks was planning to serve
> Stouffers
> Lasagna as the primary dish.  that was his choice, and there was some
> carrots and potatoes in there somewhere.  With some gentle urging late the
> night before or early the morning of the feast serving 175+ . . . when the
> cook still had not gone shopping . . . the menu was changed and some more
> fitting meal was created.  Memory fades on what is fact and waht is
> embellishment, and what was actually served when all was said and done.
>
> There are some SPAM stories out in our Kingdom legends, but that was
> intentional and another story I don't have details for.
>
>
> niccolo "no SPAM" difrancesco
>
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