[Sca-cooks] An SCA feast

[Stefan li Rous]

An individual posted, I think in her Facebook timeline, about a recent SCA feast:
<<< Feast last night was Great!
Round loaves of fresh-baked on site, bread and patties of honey butter and herbed (real) butter
Herbed roast chicken an duck..... with Mixed veggies
Flounder fillets and beefed rice
Tangy light salad greens 
Beef and veggies soup
Stuffed mushrooms and mashed cauliflower
Beef and pork pie with raisins and Very flaky crust
Assorted drinks
And assorted desserts >>>

I posted that honey butter wasn’t period. and got this reply:
Diana Shell Wertz 
<<< uh,.... why wouldn't 'honey-butter' be period ???? both are period. why couldn't they have been combined ? I thought 'honey' was considered a 'spice' (sorta) there's just no reason they couldn't have been…… >>>

And gave one supporting file and one that I thought could be used to create alternatives.

Honey-Butter-art (20K) 11/17/01 "Is Honey Butter Period?" by THL Katja Davidova Orlova Khazarina.
http://www.florilegium.org/.../FOOD.../Honey-Butter-art.html

flavord-butrs-msg (45K) 10/26/10 Period and SCA, flavored butters.
http://www.florilegium.org/.../FOO.../flavord-butrs-msg.html

Then I get criticized with:
<<< Bragg MacMorrichai 
As a culinary historian, I appreciate the fact that you point out, we have no period recipes for honey butter. Seeing as in Meridies , a"period" feast is usually announced as such , with attendant documentation presented before hand....and most of our feast are not period,but a mix of traditional favorites and sometimes even blatantly mundane fare, to dig on this one thing out of a menu, seems a bit uncalled for. >>>

I don’t think I’m being overly critical. Am I?

That was just a very obvious mistake to me and I thought it worthwhile to correct it.

I think there are other problems, too, without have more details. For instance, I don’t know what the “Assorted drinks” included.
The “very flakey crust” seems very unlikely to me.

Any other comments on this feast as given?

I’m not just trying to be critical, at least I don’t think so. This feast does seem to be much better than many of the SCA feasts in Meridies from what I’ve seen in feast menu announcements.

Stefan
PS: Does someone have a period recipe for stuffed mushrooms? I sure would like to find one.
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