[Sca-cooks] Trial feast report
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tudorpot at gmail.com
Tue May 17 21:24:24 PDT 2011
The event it three weeks away. As a "new" feast cook, I wanted some
feedback on period sauces, recipes.
I served:
Moretum- fresh cheese with garlic and herbs- I made three variations-
one with coriander seeds, one I changed from fresh garlic to roasted
garlic, each of latter two had fresh coriander/cilantro. The
overwhelming choice was the coriander seed version, it had fresh garlic
in it. I made the fresh cheese yesterday morning. WoW - amazing. Found
some white balsamic vinegar-another wow.
Brie Tart
*to die for* I will leave the salt out next time.
Finnish Meatloaves - I tried two variations- one as per the recipe, and
one with "Norse" spices - white pepper, cloves,
recipe here. divided honours. 3/2 The version with horseradish,
rosemary, sage and dill was the favourite, but the version with the
Norse spice blend- pepper, nutmeg, allspice and cloves was well liked.
This is a great dish for feast- would work well on a lunch board. Served
with sour cream and dil.
Cazuela De Salmon- the trials combination for verjuice substitution -
orange juice, or white grape juice with either white vermouth or white
wine vinegar. Overwhelming win to white grape juice and white wine vinegar.
http://lists.ansteorra.org/pipermail/bryn-gwlad-ansteorra.org/1998-February/003717.html
Chicken with Sage sauce- quite happy with this- aging it overnight helped
Cazuela De Salmon- recipe here
www.florilegium.org/files/FEASTS/feasts-fish-msg.rtf
Good reviews on this dish. I used the opportunity to trial a four
variations on verjuice. Not able to get the real stuff. So I tried
combining - orange juice, or white grape juice with either white wine
vinegar or dry vermouth. The white grape juice/white wine vinegar was a
clear winner.
I am thinking of making the herbs into more of a paste next time, the
finely chopped herbs didn't stick to the fish well. Also, the almonds
and pine nuts were all over the place. I was using Salmon steaks, for
feast I have fillets so it might work better. But perhaps making a paste
of nuts and herbs would work better.
Finnish Meatloaves- divided honours. 3/2 The version with horseradish,
rosemary, sage and dill was the favourite, but the version with the
Norse spice blend- pepper, nutmeg, allspice and cloves was well liked. I
made one in layers (meat/spinach/cheese/mushrooms/meat- vs rolling as I
had a hard time rolling the first one, it looked great when sliced.
Cazuela De Salmon- the trials combination for verjuice substitution -
orange juice, or white grape juice with either white vermouth or white
wine vinegar. Overwhelming win to white grape juice and white wine vinegar.
Strawberry Pudding- I elected to leave the red wine in -forgot to add
the butter at the end so it wasn't as thick as I would like. Good reviews.
Thanks to all who have helped me both on and off list.
Theadora
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