[Sca-cooks] Tasting Table at Crown - sans rotten meat

Deborah Hammons mistressaldyth at gmail.com
Tue Mar 16 14:25:33 PDT 2010


I picked the Rissoles because they would travel well.  And what better than
period fig newtons.  I really liked Theresa's Lombardie (sp) soup.  Egg drop
with chicken.

Aldyth

On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 3:14 PM, Kathleen A Roberts <karobert at unm.edu>wrote:

> Well, we had quite the successful medieval tasting table at Outlands Crown
> Tourney this Saturday in al-Barran. Spearheaded by Mistress Monika von Zell,
> our A and S Officer (who brought me along for the ride as a coordinator), we
> provided a bounty of dishes, 97% medieval (and a few close enough for
> government work) and all tasting delicious.
>
> We had three home made cheeses (honey and pomegranate, dill/mustard seed,
> and plain), home made butter, oat bread, florentine pork, five-spice pork,
> venison/beef stew, pea soup, egg drop soup, melon with mint, carrots in same
> dressing as melon, salad with olive oil, wine and onion (chopped red), two
> forms of stuffed dates, one stuffed with ingredients and brushed with
> powdered gold (a bit different from apicius, but much neater in the
> situation) and one stuffed with almonds and simmered in wine, pizzelles,
> persian peach dessert, apple cake, littiu (oatmeal pudding with dried
> cherries and currants), chicken/cheese tarts, rissoles, Rumpbolt pickled
> beets... okay, so the rolls were store bought.  People came out of the
> woodwork to cook, some for their first try at medieval food (using Master
> Huen's site to good advantage).
>
> We raised almost $300.00 for the travel fund, and had people going by all
> day, eating and commenting on the food, how good it was and how wonderful it
> was to have such a thing.  Mistress Monika assembled recipe books which were
> sold for $2.00 (cover printing costs).  We ran out of copies and were asked
> to provide more at later events.  It was a great day.
>
> Mistress Aldyth and Mistress Gwen Kat from this list participated as well.
>
> Thus proving that medieval food can indeed be.... da da da da datada...
> good eats.
>
> Cailte
>
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