[Sca-cooks] Party on while Papa's Gone to Gulf Wars

[Johnna Holloway]

I did pancakes and pancake customs for my February Pale article and 
Hares for the March Pale
(answering that question why is a hare mad in March). But I didn't do 
Easter for my April article.

In case people weren't aware, I do write articles for a number of 
printed Society publications. It isn't all
e mail lists and research for people on these lists, and contributing 
articles to group files or the Florilegium.
 Besides The Pale, I also still write for
Tournaments Illuminated, and various kingdom arts and sciences journals. 
I have articles in the current
issues of Ars Caidis and in The Oak for Atlantia. 
http://oak.atlantia.sca.org/oakindex.html
I've contributed and had published something over 150 articles in the 
past eight years.

Traditionally Easter was always a non-event weekend in the Society. 
Christmas, Easter, and Thanksgiving
were those off weekends. Have people created big period feasts for 
events on Easter weekend?
If so, what was served? Did you serve it on Easter Saturday which should 
still be a fast day or did you
serve the traditional foods of Easter Sunday on Saturday?
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Whan that Aprille with his shoures soote The droghte of March hath 
perked, to the roote,

Of Engelond, to Caunturbury they wende,  The hooly blisful martir for to 
seke,

I do know what I'll be doing this Easter Sunday however. We plan to be 
at Hampton Court Palace.
We are also going to Canterbury Easter week.

Johnnae



Kingstaste wrote:
> Cold and rainy, seems like every GW has that same scenario.  One of the main
> reasons I don't go!  
> Ok, a topic, a topic...
>
> How about period Easter celebrations and foods?  Don't you suppose folks in
> the middle of the long Lenten fast discussed what was coming up at the end
> of that fast?  The hodge-podge of traditions that have been combined to make
> our modern Easter celebrations, from hot-cross-buns to colored eggs to
> chocolate rabbits - there is a bunch there we could ruminate over!
> Christianna
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