[Sca-cooks] Structure of an Elizabethan Feast?

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I like Peter Brears' Cooking & Dining in Tudor & Early Stuart England.  
It has a lot of information.  His recipes are iffy, since he doesn't 
like the original with his redaction, but otherwise is good.

Katherine

Jun 9, 2015
by Peter Brear  On 4/22/2016 11:50 AM, Joel Lord wrote:
> So I'm heading up the feast for The Feast of St. Nicholas in Queen 
> Elizabeth's Court next December, and I'm finding one critical piece of 
> information awfully hard to track down.  How would the feast itself 
> have been constructed?  I can find all sorts of sources for what they 
> were eating, decorations, characteristics, all sorts of things.  But 
> the over-arching flow of the feast, not so much.
>
> The day is intended to be a completely immersed day of celebration in 
> 1560, which is to say food and entertainments.  My hangup is that I 
> can't figure out if I'm currently planning far too few dishes or far 
> too many, or if I'm trying to stick sallat in the wrong place...  I've 
> spent far more time digging in to either earlier England, or even 
> moreso elsewhere in Europe.
>
> Any good sources anyone can recommend?
>