[Sca-cooks] Organization of German Feasts, ~1500

[Pixel, Goddess and Queen]

Rumpolt has some sample menus, which can be found here on Gwen Cat's 
Rumpolt pages: 
http://clem.mscd.edu/~grasse/GK_Banquets1.htm

It's one of the sources I used for the order of dishes in my Elizabethan 
sheep-shearing feast.

Margaret fitz William

On Wed, 24 Aug 2011, Guenievre de Monmarche wrote:

> Greetings!
>
> One of the things I've been working on for the past few years is
> understanding how dishes would be arranged as part of a meal in
> medieval French and English menus, rather than just cooking single
> dishes. I'll be branching out a bit and cooking a circa-1500 German
> feast in January, and have realized that while I have some clue as to
> where to look for recipes, I have *no* clue as to where to look for
> sample menus or information on how the dishes would be presented. Does
> anyone have any sources they might recommend? Flandrin's "Arranging
> the Meal" only has French with a bit of English and Polish...
>
> Thank you,
>
> Gueni?vre