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

[Kathleen A Roberts]

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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"Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy which 
sustained him through temporary periods of joy."
W. B. Yeats
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Kathleen Roberts
Coordinator, Student Admissions
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM
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