[Sca-cooks] Dinner for eight
Stefan li Rous
StefanliRous at austin.rr.com
Mon Nov 12 19:28:41 PST 2007
Rocas asked:
<<< I wanted to ask for some input on a project of mine. I have been
practicing medieval cooking for several years now. >>>
Well, keep practicing. You can eventually get it down. :-) Some of
the folks here have, although I still have a way to go.
<<< I am used to cooking it for my wife and myself. I have never
cooked for a feast, though I did serve at a Val-day feast when I was
in the Blue Dragons. >>>
Cooking feasts is not a requirement. Many of us just enjoy cooking
for pot lucks and trying dishes at home and will probably never cook
a large feast.
<<< I am planning a period dinner party for four couples. The dinner
will be done in French service style along with all of the usual
period eating customs. But I am having trouble deciding what to
include in the menu. I have a limited budget and many of the dinner
guests are mundanes (that is to say, not rennies). I was wondering
if anyone has done something similar and would be willing to share
their experience. >>>
What do you mean by "French service style"? Does this mean you are
looking for just French dishes? Either way, do you have a particular
time period or culture in mind, or does it matter?
Perhaps this file in the FEASTS section of the Florilegium might help.
French-Tbl-Srv-art (7K) 5/22/04 An example of French table service
translated by Angharad ferch
Iorwerth.
Take a look at the other files in this section. There are a number of
reviews of various SCA feasts. Some with menus. Some also with
recipes. While many of these won't follow the order of the dishes and
the format you seem to have in mind, they should give you an idea of
what others have cooked for groups.
Here is some more general info on period feasts:
p-feasts-msg (70K) 9/24/06 General comments about period
feasts.
Medievl-Feasts-art (16K) 2/24/05 "The Medieval Feast - An Event,
Not Food"
by Mistress Willow de Wisp.
Fst-Menus-art (11K) 8/22/04 "On Rules for Feast Menus"
by Lord Daniel Raoul le Vascon
du Navarre.
In period it wasn't unusual that not everyone got everything on the
menu. It was often very hierarchical. Those higher up the social
ladder got the choicer items and more of them, and it progressed
downwards from there. You mentioned reading some period menus. This
file has some more:
p-menus-msg (58K) 4/24/06 Examples of medieval feast menus.
If you can tell us a bit more about the cultures and time period of
your feast and perhaps other details you want to include, perhaps I
can point you to a few more files that might be of use.
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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