[Sca-cooks] Sca-cooks Digest, Vol 71, Issue 6

[Terry Decker]

Please clip your posts.  Resending an entire digest causes problems for many 
people on the list, especially those receiving the digest.

Research for A&S can run the gamut from working directly from cookbooks such 
as Pleyn Delight to translating and preparing recipes from period texts.  We 
have had some epic debates over just this question.  In practice, 
documentation standards for A&S vary by kingdom.  You will find some of the 
commentary at http://www.florilegium.org/ .  The site contains many things 
SCA and the food sections will give you an idea of what we have discussed 
over the years.

I no longer compete so I don't worry about the SCA standards for A&S.  My 
standard is to produce a product that would be accepted for presentation at 
a symposium of historians.  My results often do not meet that standard, but 
I keep working at it.  I have been cooking for about 50 years, and working 
at historical cooking and culinary history for about 30.  In that time I 
have gone from preparing feasts that were "sort of period" to preparing 
feasts of specific time and place from period sources and refining my 
research.  The fact is, you will set your standard, just as everyone on this 
list has set their's.

>From the time I have been on this list, I can provide a small suggestion, 
the more specific and focused you can make a question, the (usually) better 
and more refined answer you will receive.

Bear


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(unlurk)


greetings to this list, and the cooks herein ; )

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.

thanks

HL Iohannes
Midrealm