[Sca-cooks] Lenten Observations was Officially serving modern food at SCA events

[Laura C. Minnick]

On 1/31/2013 6:43 AM, . . wrote:
>>> Liutgard, who thanks God that the Lenten rules changed
>>> sometime in the mid 8th c, and she can have beer or wine.
>>> Beer makes Lent bearable.
>> Can you have cider? (Your aside made me curious)
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>> Hrothny
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> Cider, beer, and wine are all good during Lent.  It's the hard liquors that you can't have.  I've done the period Lent thing (focus on 16th Century practices, more on my blog at isabelladangelo.blogspot.com) and I plan on doing it again this year.  It really has helped a lot just as a learning tool of what our ancestors truly went through and I would LOVE to see a Lenten feast done in the SCA.
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> BTW, since Valentine's Day is for Saint Valentine, in the modern Church, they will easily give any disposition for a feast that day if you ask.  It's not needed since it falls on a Thursday and, therefore, under the modern rules, it's perfectly fine to have a feast.  However, I know that in the past when a major Saint's day falls on a Friday, Lent tends to take a back seat to the feast day - i.e., Saint Patrick.  ;-)
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> -Isabella
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In the 8th c the rules were much more stringent, and I've not been able 
to find the beginning point of relaxation/allowances/indulgences. Not to 
say they aren't there later, just that I am still looking.

James and I will be celebrating the week before, and more than chocolate 
or anything like that, I want MEAT and cheese and cream sauces and 
things like that. Maybe make a pot roast.

(There's restriction on nooky too, but I will NOT be following that!)

Liutgard

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