[Sca-cooks] listing of ingredients...

[Terry Decker]

I am an Ansteorran and in recent years, I have taken to producing the menu 
and recipes as a booklet that serves as the feast token as well as posting a 
list of dishes with all ingredients at the kitchen and at the gate.  This 
allows anyone to quickly decide whether or not they want to eat the feast, 
answers most dietary concerns and permits people to determine what dishes 
they want to avoid.  In my view, the practice saves my time and provides a 
useful service to people at the event.

I have no objection to anyone seeing my recipes.  I provide the original 
recipe, a translation if necessary, and my general adaptation of the recipe. 
I record any variation in ingredients in the ingredient list and once the 
feast recipe is fixed, I do not vary from the list.  This is critical, at 
one feast prepared by another cook, the casual addition of a little curry 
powder to a soup could have sent my wife to the hospital.  Fortunately, a 
friend tasted the soup before she did and stopped her from eating it.

Since I am attempting to create period meals from preiod recipes, I make all 
of my stocks and sauces from scratch.  If you don't make your own, you need 
to be aware of the ingredients in the commercial products you use.

Bear



>I am stewarding my first feast this April.  I've been playing for 8 years 
>and am in my third Kingdom to live it.  My question is this:  My Event 
>Steward first wanted us to post my recipies.  I talked her out of 
>that...then she said that she wanted me to post ALL of my ingredients on 
>the website.  I told her that I wasn't sure that I wanted to do that 
>either.  I felt that my menu and a link to ask me any question or voice any 
>dietary or allergy concerns.  She still wants me to post the ingredient 
>list at the event.  She said that she had seen this done in the North all 
>the time.  I don't know...I'm a southern girl and have only played in 
>Ansteorra, Glenn Ahbann, and Meridies.
>
> Kimberley D. Lee
> Lady Aoife inghean ui hEaluighthe