[Sca-cooks] crab and seafood recipes and children (not recipes)

[Stefan li Rous]

Marion introduced herself and asked:
<<< Well met from the Northern Most Barony of Winter's Gate in Fairbanks
Alaska!  I am new to the SCA >>>

Welcome to the SCA and to SCA-Cooks!

Since you are new to the Society, you might find it useful to look  
through the files in the NEWCOMERS section in the Florilegium. If you  
haven't heard of it before, it is a collection of over 2000 different  
files on a number of SCA and medieval subjects. You can find the  
address of the site in my sig. line below.

<<< and am fascinated with cooking, so
naturally I am going to be delving into the creation of period
dishes. >>>

There are also a number of sections in the Florilegium on beverages  
and food. Most of the recipes which have been posted on this  
newsgroup and much of the commentary can also be found there.

<<< SCA seemed to be the
perfect thing to encourage my children's love of Medieval stuff and
my love for anything crafty and medieval too!  >>>

The Florilegium also has a CHILDREN section which might also have  
some files of interest to you.

<<< Back to my current delima of King Crab legs... how do i serve  
them if
i want to prepare them period? Is there any dishes for shell fish or
any other rich seafood that I can incorporate them? >>>

You might want to check this file in the FOOD-MEATS section:
seafood-msg       (90K) 10/15/04    Medieval non-fish seafood. Recipes.
   (I believe there are some crab recipes in this file)

These files might also be of interest for other fish and seafood:
eels-msg          (26K) 10/11/04    Eel dishes. Getting and cleaning  
eels.
    (Do they have eels that far north?)
fish-msg         (140K)  4/18/05    Medieval fish dishes. Fish in the  
SCA.
fish-pies-msg     (11K)  5/ 3/01    Period fish pies. Recipes.

salmon-msg        (74K) 10/15/02    Period use of Salmon. Recipes.
Shrympes-art      (16K) 10/11/01    "Shrympes" by Lady Constance de  
Larose.

<<< We have a challenge for
Hearts Revel this year for period food with our local food, and I
have 10 pounds of king crab just DIEING to get ate! Anyone have any
ideas?  >>>>

Pack them in dry ice and mail them down here to Texas? ;-)

Stefan
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THLord Stefan li Rous    Barony of Bryn Gwlad    Kingdom of Ansteorra
    Mark S. Harris           Austin, Texas           
StefanliRous at austin.rr.com
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