[Sca-cooks] Late period Italian Feast

[Maria Buchanan]

HEHEHE That's great.  
If you want to do a Catherine de'Medici theme,
remember several things ...
1.  Catherine was part French.  Her mother was from
France.
2.  Catherine's pastry chef was an Italian, Popelini. 
He created the Choux pastry recipe.  Cream puffs are
period if you use some sort of sweet or savory filling
that would be period.  (I've used Ricotta mixed with
Honey or cinnamon and sugar or lemon curd.  All are
really good.)

Let me know how you do with the feast.  Wish I could
come.

Lady Elizabeta Maria dei Medici
Maria Bulgarelli Buchanan
Kingdom of Ansteorra
(Real decendant of the Medici family)
--- Melbrigda <melbrigda at gmail.com> wrote:

> Our shire has been awarded the 30 Year Celebration
> for Meridies this year.
> We put our name in the hat as a "eh, they aren't
> going to give it to us
> because we are doing May Crown List, are at the very
> bottom of the kingdom
> and the weekend after a major event, but let's throw
> our name in the hat for
> S&G's."  The theme of the event is "Daggers and
> Hemlock: Medici Mayhem" and
> is a late period Italian event.  I had originally
> thought I would do a
> Platina feast since I know quite a few of the
> recipes well enough and it's
> fairly easy.  But now I'm rethinking that and think
> I want to do a good late
> period feast ala Catherine at the French court type
> feast.  Can someone
> point me to some good resources?  This is really out
> of my scope and I've
> only done a bit of periphery reading on that period
> of food.  The event will
> be over Labor Day weekend and we are planning on
> having 2 feasts, although
> the feast for Sunday night is fairly set (and will
> be quite, um,
> interesting)  This is sort of a combined event.  Our
> annual assassins event
> coupled with a celebration of 30 years of Meridies.
> 
> I'm also looking for a good subtlety for this event.
>  I'm thinking
> incorporating our kingdom's colors (black and white)
> or something with
> stars.
> 
> -- 
> Mel.
> The Honorable Lady Melbrigða i Granbý
> Argent, on a chief wavy azure three daisies proper
> http://melbrigda.blogspot.com/
> Lambent Herald, Meridies
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