[Sca-cooks] siege cooking ingredient ideas sought

[Honour Horne-Jaruk]

Respected friends:
--- On Wed, 6/30/10, Susanne Mayer <susanne.mayer5 at chello.at> wrote:
(many good suggestions, ending with--
> to be more precise I would have to consult a couple of
> books
> 
> 
> Katharina
Please do, good lady, and post whenever you can. This is exactly the sort of thing I need.

Yours in service to both the Societies of which I am a member-
(Friend) Honour Horne-Jaruk, R.S.F.
Alizaundre de Brebeuf, C.O.L. S.C.A.- AKA Una the wisewoman, or That Pict

FORTE EST VINUM, FORTIOR EST REX, FORTIORES SUNT MULIERES: SUPER OMNIA VINCIT VERITAS




> From: Susanne Mayer <susanne.mayer5 at chello.at>
> Subject: [Sca-cooks] siege cooking ingredient ideas sought
> To: sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org
> Date: Wednesday, June 30, 2010, 6:01 PM
> Here are my Ideas for  middle
> Europe(with access to the Mediterranean)  with
> different ingredients depending on the season the "siege"
> would take place and the duration of the siege at the time
> you get to cook:
> 
> spring/summer/autumn is quite easy and the "shorter" the
> siege the more to cook from
> 
> winter and a long siege would mean you really would need to
> be creative:
> 
>  no fresh meat or little left (that scrawny chicken in the
> corner we missed/the last dove on the rooftop/dried/salted
> meat, root veggies only if at all/only apples left (and
> those do not look too good), no fresh herbs at least where
> there is snow all over, maybe some soft inner tree barks/ ,
> the last wheat intended for spring sowing,...the last hard
> piece of cheese)
> 
> 
> 
> fat: 
> lard / butter (easy) or just a cured piece of bacon (hard)
> starch: 
> risotto or short-grain rice (can be pound into flour),
> whole grain wheat or oats (hard to do something with that
> but possible)
> sweet: 
> honey in the comb
> sour: 
> some sort of vinegar, or if you are VERY lucky a lemon or
> bitter orange , sour pickles like sauerkraut or other
> pickled veggie
> veggie: 
> pick the most weird period veggie of the season you can get
> like pastinaken parsnip, rutabaga, artichokes, early luffa
> gourds, fava beans, peas in the shell, pre cooked red
> beets,.....
> fruit: 
> again pick the most weird and period fruit you can find
> depending on season/region: fresh figs, plums, early small
> green apples(I know needs a garden at home, otherwise would
> not get them) berries in summer / autumn you can get a lot
> of different berries 
> milkproduct:
>  cheese either a hard like parmegiano or pecorino or a
> fresh like ricotta
> meat: 
> again depending on the duration /region/season: small
> chickens (doves/Cornish hens/quail/partridge/duck/ can't
> have blackbirds or other singing birds which would
> definitely have been eaten), lamb/goat, rabbit/hare/coney,
> salted or otherwise preserved if it is late in season
> some condiments: like mustard, jellies, ....
> beverage: wine/beer/fruit juice/ 
> 
> scout bag:
> 
> again base on season/region
> 

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>  Message: 10
> > Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2010 09:26:13 -0700 (PDT)
> > From: Honour Horne-Jaruk <jarukcomp at yahoo.com>
> > To: sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org
> > Subject: [Sca-cooks] siege cooking ingredient ideas
> sought
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> > Respected friends:
> >     Once again, I prepare for
> Maison Rive's annual Pennsic siege cooking contest. This
> year, in addition to the usual request for judges and
> participants, I've finally realized I need to pick your
> collective brains...
> >     Where-and when-ever your
> persona/specialty/cookbook collection is from, what would
> you give out for the ten items provided in a siege cooking
> ingredient bag? (The contestants provide salt and
> herbs/spices.)
> > I've always included a protein, a fat, a starch, a
> sweet, a sour, a vegetable and a fruit. The rest can get
> pretty whimsical.
> >     Another version: the available
> foods would be quite different for a battlefield meal, since
> the scouts can buy (or steal) fresh items. What would you
> include in that bag?
> > 
> > Yours in service to both the Societies of which I am a
> member-
> > (Friend) Honour Horne-Jaruk, R.S.F.
> > Alizaundre de Brebeuf, C.O.L. S.C.A.- AKA Una the
> wisewoman, or That Pict
> > 
> > FORTE EST VINUM, FORTIOR EST REX, FORTIORES SUNT
> MULIERES: SUPER OMNIA VINCIT VERITAS
> > 
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