[Sca-cooks] Spring Investiture Refreshment Table
Lilinah
lilinah at earthlink.net
Wed May 21 19:14:08 PDT 2008
This past Saturday, the 17th of May, at the Principality of the Mists
Spring Investiture, i served a "Refreshment Table" at the request of
incoming Princess Kamiilah, who has a North African persona and not
so concerned about historical accuracy. She had said she'd be happy
with mint tea, orange slices, and some cookies. Who me? Make only
mint tea and cookies? Hah!
Here's what i prepared:
Beverages:
1. Modern Moroccan mint tea (fresh mint and gunpowder green tea),
made at Her Highness's request
2. & 3. Two period fruit syrups - cherry and lemon.
Sweets:
I made a couple peri-oid items:
1. Tamar bi'l-Luuz - 50 Medjool dates (the really creamy ones) halved
and stuffed almond paste
--- i have a recipe for dates stuffed with whole almonds, but not
almond paste. Almond paste is certainly period, i just don't recall
seeing a period recipe for stuffing dates with it...
2. Jauz bi'l-Luuz - 100 Walnut halves covered with almond paste
--- i flavored half of the almond paste with pomegranate syrup and rose water
--- and the other half with bitter orange marmalade and orange blossom water
The rest were period:
3. Senbuse Mukallele (from the 15th C. Ottoman version of the 13th C.
al-Baghdadi recipe)
--- phyllo strips with a dab of almond paste, folded into a triangle
(like the American flag when it's being put away), then fried in
butter and sprinkled with powdered sugar
4. Abbasid Qataif (13th C. anonymous Andalusian cookbook)
---- Pastry Rounds (i used Wonton because i didn't have time to make
my own) filled with Spiced Chopped Nuts, fried in oil, and soaked in
syrup
5. Halwa bi-Tamar - Dates & Honey Sweet (13th C. anonymous Andalusian cookbook)
--- 1 lb. Medjool dates kneaded with honey and chopped almonds and walnuts
6. Khabisa with Pomegranate (13th C. anonymous Andalusian cookbook)
--- semolina cooked in pomegranate juice and sugar syrup, then formed
into hazelnut sized balls (i left out the ground almonds so there's
be something without nut for those with allergies)
7. And i had a friend bake some peri-oid walnut macaroons - made only
with crushed walnuts, sugar, and egg white, nothing more.
For the most part i made between 50 and 75 of each thing. And my
friend made about 3 dozen macaroons.
I was going to made a few more items, but i was in a car accident the
Monday before Investiture that totaled my van (i only got a few
bruises, but the van is toast). Then i spent most of Wednesday
dealing with the tow yard and a body shop. So i didn't have as much
time as i'd planned for and had to skip making several other things.
Everything got scarfed down, except for some Khabisa. 1 qt.
pomegranate juice and 2 c. fine semolina made close to 200 little
balls!! of which there were maybe 2 dozen left.
Recipes on demand... err... request...
--
Urtatim (that's err-tah-TEEM)
the persona formerly known as Anahita
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