[Sca-cooks] 14th Century French Feast in January
Stefan li Rous
StefanliRous at austin.rr.com
Mon Dec 7 23:01:02 PST 2009
Baroness Bebhinn asked:
<<< I am new to this list, but I have a question for you all.>>>
Welcome to SCA-Cooks!
<<< I am doing a feast in january for the 25th anniversary of my
Barony as well as the investiture of the new baron and Bariness.? It
is a once in a lifetime feast.? It also happens to be my first.? I
have cooked for approx 60 before, but I will be cooking for 160 this
time and I just wanted to know if anyone had any tips for me that
might make my time of it a little easier >>>
What are your kitchen and hall facilities like? Or is this being done
outside with almost no facilities and the running water coming from a
hose? What is does your current menu look like? Are you pre-cooking
some of it? Or doing all of it the day of the feast? These kinds of
answers will help us advise you better.
<<< My biggest problem is planning and timing.? Any tips?? >>>
We have had various discussions on this before. I have tried to
capture much of these comments as either files of messages or articles
in the FEASTS and other food sections of the Florilegium. If you've
never been there, the address is given in my signature line below.
Here are a few that specifically come to mind:
This one has a bunch of short comments and things to keep an eye on
from members of this list:
kitchen-tips-msg (22K) 11/ 4/08 Practical, short kitchen tips for
SCA feasts
A lot of cooking successfully for large feasts has as much to do with
logistics and leadership as cooking.
headcooks-msg (180K) 10/ 9/08 Advice for SCA headcooks. Planning
feasts.
Run-a-Feast-art (14K) 11/ 2/98 "About Running a Feast" by Minna
Gantz.
bread-for-fsts-msg (42K) 5/15/06 Baking and buying bread for SCA
feasts.
child-kitchen-msg (25K) 11/22/00 Having children in the kitchen
during feast preperation.
fd-kitch-staf-msg (8K) 10/23/08 Feeding your kitchen staff.
Food-Safety-art (12K) 7/27/09 "Food Safety in the SCA" by Lady
Avelyn Grene.
Fst-Menus-art (11K) 8/22/04 "On Rules for Feast Menus" by Lord
Daniel Raoul le Vascon du Navarre.
kitch-toolbox-msg (8K) 11/30/02 Suggested items to put in a kitchen
toolbox.
kitchen-clean-msg (16K) 5/26/08 Cleaning the kitchen after an SCA
event.
kitchen-knives-msg (36K) 4/21/08 Kitchen knives for the modern
kitchen and feast preparation, Knife care.
practice-fsts-msg (7K) 2/14/01 Using practice feasts.
Good comments on what you can learn from doing a practice feast of
your menu. You may be running out of time to do this, however.
Good files for your head server and server crew:
Servng-Roylty-art (10K) 1/ 1/06 "When Royalty Graces Your Head
Table" by
Dame Alys Katharine, O.L., O.P.
high-table-msg (38K) 7/21/07 Setting up and serving the High Table.
servng-drinks-msg (14K) 8/30/07 Serving drinks and beverages at SCA
feasts.
serving-soups-msg (18K) 4/14/07 Serving soups at SCA feasts.
feast-serving-msg (134K) 2/24/08 Ideas for serving feasts. How to
organize.
feast-seatng-msg (6K) 11/28/09 Comments on seating at feasts.
Seating charts.
There are also a number of reviews of different feasts including
comments about what the headcooks would do differently next time. But
I wouldn't try to recommend any specific ones of these without knowing
more details about what you already have planned.
I hope this helps.
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
**** See Stefan's Florilegium files at: http://www.florilegium.org ****
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