[Sca-cooks] Midrealm Cookery A&S

[Johnna Holloway]

First, have you asked your local or regional MoAS for advice? They should be able to help and provide suggestions.

What I can tell you is that The Midrealm has very detailed and comprehensive criteria for cookery, subtleties, and for the first time food preservation. Go toMidrealm.com, click on the MOAS link. On that page click on criteria. Reading the criteria will explain what it is the judges will be looking for in Midrealm contests. To achieve maximum points in research generally, you are going to have locate the recipe, translate if necessary, create a working version that can be duplicated, and provide enough historical information in your own words to convince the judges you know the subject and area. Don't substitute w/o providing historical background. Include a comprehensive bibliography. Having been a major contributor and author behind these criteria and a past winner at kingdom in cookery, I can report that reading and creating an entry with the criteria in hand works quite well for entrants. Answer the questions as mentioned in the criteria. If preserving food, tell us where you got the cultures or molds. Why or how did you do it? Explain.

For a list of sources, you might consult the regional newsletter The Gauntlet which has been running a series on cookery resources. The most recent is on Spain. The past bibliographies are being published. Announcement soon regarding that. Back issues of Cynnabar's Citadel newsletter also offer bibliographic guides and articles on cookery sources.

Also if you can, take the opportunity to attend your regional or the kingdom A&S faire and take a look at the entries and talk to entrants and judges as to what they are seeking or looking for in terms of entries. 

As to other cookery contests, they run all the way from prettiest by bean count to best subtletie to most authentic in a juried contest. Read the rules and query the autocrat if you need more information. 

if you have more specific questions, please write and ask.

Have fun and welcome,

Johnnae llyn Lewis, Midrealm

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> On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 11:17 PM, d. hillers <incrosscircle at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>> greetings to this list, and the cooks herein  ; )
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>> i'm a fairly accomplished savories cook mundanely as yet another hobby,
>> don't do bad in pastry either...but is there a FAQ or other introduction
>> site for the "Hardware and Software" to do SCA cooking at the A&S and
>> personal level?  i have Pleyn Delit, and have a few other cookbooks, but
>> i'd like to know more about what is considered good research and practice
>> in SCA cookery, and if someone can point me in the right direction, i'd be
>> obliged.
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>> thanks
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>> HL Iohannes
>> Midrealm
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