[Sca-cooks] halloo the list??

[Terry Decker]

I'm still in the deciding process as to which recipes to use.  I hit the 
limits of the site kitchen at an overly ambitious feast last October and I 
am trying to shape a menu that will fit the kitchen and the limited skills 
of my help.  Since this is a feast proposal, the actual feast may never come 
off, but I'll be testing recipes.  I'm thinking of two main courses, one of 
beef, the other chicken and I want to use the cabbage salad with the oil and 
vinegar dressing (essentially Herman's coleslaw).

I'm certainly going to read over your translations and if you think any of 
my work can help you please help yourself to it.

For a number of years, I have been planning feasts assigned to a specific 
place and time using translations or transcriptions of contemporary sources. 
My last feast was a walk through period cookery, Andalusian 13th Century, 
French 14th, Italian 15th and German 16th.  The feast came off adequately, 
but I lost control of the flow and had to improvise.  One of the ovens at 
the site is unusable for most things (temperature control issues) and much 
of the kitchen help are budding geniuses that are unskilled in the practical 
and na�fs at commonplace solutions.  Good people, but they need training 
and/or a director and the project I undertook was too large for me to 
provide the oversight continuously.  Definite error on my part.  There were 
some other problems not of my making that I didn't handle adequately.

This time around, I'm looking for greater control of all aspects of the 
feast, by reducing the number of dishes and focusing on the quality of the 
experience.

Bear


Bear,

I'm still working on a hopefully-will-become-a-Compleat-Anachronist
translation and index of the two (much) shorter recipe collections
that come from the same basic "school" as the Transylvanian cookbook.
I'd love to know which recipes you're working on!

(My first pass translations and glossary are up on Medieval Cookery:
http://medievalcookery.com/etexts.html?Hungary)

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doesn't exist.)

Julia
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