[Sca-cooks] snails and puppy dog tails...

[V O]

Cailte, your one of those chefs that anyone would eat feast.  i truly regret not 
making it to Midwinter to be part of it.

Maybe it has become a more northern Outlands thing, which is to bad, we have 
some very good cooks here.  But Really picky eaters.   Slipping something in 
here and there can work, but it better be subtle.  


Mirianna 

 
----- Original Message ----
From: Kathleen Roberts <karobert at unm.edu>
To: Cooks within the SCA <sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org>
Sent: Thu, January 27, 2011 3:34:00 PM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] snails and puppy dog tails...

On 28/01/2011 6:18 AM, V O wrote:
> I know in some Kingdoms you have things like all day feasts, and that it can 
be
> the center of an event.  Here we have so much antagonism and blase attitudes
> toward "period" foods, that if someone tried to do, "unusual", the event and 
>the
> feast would fail.

hi mirianna!

oh, i don't know.  too much unusual, yes i would think so in a carnivore 
kingdom. ;)  but some unusual or something not often done slipped in with the 
familiar can work pretty well.

i try to make a menu of period food that is general populace friendly (there is 
a lot out there) and put in something unusual somewhere.  fortunately my husband 
is a pretty good guinea pig in both taste and temperament.  his bugaboo is 
texture, as it is with many people... good lesson to learn.

at midwinter it was shrimp in a sticky sauce.  everyone thought it would tank 
pretty much, but not one came back.  now i did hear of some games of chance or 
fisticuffs at a table or two for the uneaten ones, and granted i only allowed 
one (32 count, i recall) per person on a appetizer course, but still....  i was 
expecting at least 25% of them to come back to the kitchen.  


unexpected at a feast for 300, but still familiar.    

cailte



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