[Sca-cooks] fourth grade help

[Johnna Holloway]

Of course there is that really nagging point that girls and women  
didn't work in royal kitchens. We do know that a woman did sugar stuff  
at Hampton Court but women didn't serves as turnspits or cooks.
How true to the middle ages does she want to be?

Would she like to be a lady with a still room who has instructed her  
servants what to prepare to hand out?

Johnnae
On Apr 28, 2011, at 8:15 AM, Jo Foster wrote:

>
> I[ve gotten an email from a fourth grade student regarding 'being a  
> chef in the Middle Ages' no specific time period.  I am having  
> difficulty with finding information that will help her.  The project  
> is to prepare ahead of time to spend the afternoon 'being' that  
> profession.  Being a cook, I could handle, being a baker, I could  
> handle ... but she wants 'fancier' than that ..... and I dont know  
> what to tell her.
> She also needs something easy that she can make up ahead of time and  
> offer to apx 200 people.  Small fingerfood type stuff.  No  
> refrigeration availible on site.