hot-weth-fsts-msg - 12/4/09
Ideas and menus for hot weather feasts.
NOTE: See also the files: cheese-msg, fruits-msg, compost-msg, pickled-foods-msg, salads-msg, picnic-feasts-msg, finger-foods-msg, sausages-msg, food-seasons-msg.
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Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 11:50:48 -0500
From: "Michael F. Gunter" <michael.gunter at fnc.fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: SC - Hot weather meals
> Gunthar, do you think you could get her to write up her menu and possibly
> the recipes she used and what worked good and what she would do differently
> the next time? I'd love to have it for the FEAST section of the Florilegium.
The menu was actually pretty simple and the dishes easily found in most
sources:
The head chef was HL Elizabeth of Castleton.
There was an antipasto tray with some kind of sausage rather like a bratwurst
that was bought commercially, hardboiled eggs, radishes, pickled mushrooms.
The obligatory bread and honey butter/herbal butter pairing.
Then a sweet white tart was presented, after that the doucette, and then a
spinach and cheddar tart.
Fresh fruit was served as a finisher.
There were a couple of other dishes but I can't recall them at this time.
Yes, there were a few missing touches and such but the Northern region
is beginning to take period cooking seriously and not many feasts have
made the attempt. If I could have assisted her there would have been
a couple of changes and I would have suggested things like a hand made
mustard with the first course and the doucette should have been slightly
sweeter or a scattering of powdre douce on the white tart. But the
overall meal was delightful and very well produced.
> Lord Stefan li Rous Barony of Bryn Gwlad Kingdom of Ansteorra
Gunthar
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 07:37:00 -0400
From: Johnna Holloway <johnnae at mac.com>
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Hot weather feasts/Italian theme
To: Cooks within the SCA <sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org>
Cathy Oldham wrote:
<<< I am looking for ideas for an Italian themed feast for hot weather. I was searching Platina for recipes that could be prepared ahead. The site is primitive and will be HOT!
Several ideas: Roasted Chicken with Orange sauce, Cvcvrbita in rafani (cucumbers, gourds and seasoned radishes), Fresh melons with honey. Ideas for starches? Thanks, Kat >>>
You could do a combined menu of cold items
in the spirit of Scappi. As Baroness Helewyse has noted
" The Italian feast is one that lends itself to feast design within the
SCA. The courses or services are divided into cold courses, which are
pre-prepared and served from a "credenza" or sideboard..." with "A
sideboard, essentially a cupboard containing pre-prepared food, served
cold."
So one could prepare this feast using her recipes that represent foods
served off the credenza.
These courses from the credenza are laid out at
http://www.geocities.com/helewyse/#Feasts
Johnnae
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 05:09:07 -0700 (PDT)
From: Maria Buchanan <scarlettmb at sbcglobal.net>
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Hot weather feasts/Italian theme
To: Cooks within the SCA <sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org>
For a starter, try an Antipasta salad. Basically it's
a bunch of different pickled veggies. Some of them
can be a little expensive, but it's always good.
I just did an Italian feast at a primitive site here
in Texas. VERY hot day.
I did an Italian style gespacho. I can send you the
recipe if you want.
Maria
Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2008 06:14:42 -0700 (PDT)
From: Louise Smithson <helewyse at yahoo.com>
Subject: [Sca-cooks] Hot weather feasts/Italian theme
To: sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org
First you don't need to make recipes up to serve a cold italian feast, there is plenty of room inside the menus and translations already done from Italian.
Salads - I did a class on salads last year (or the year before last) at war. The class notes are up http://www.geocities.com/helewyse/salads.html
There is everything from herb and green salads, through compound salads and even an antipasto type salad that calls for salami, capers, sardines, etc. A surprisingly tasty apple and onion salad, plus guidelines for making a true Italian salad dressing (salt, pepper, oil, acid) the acid can vary between vinegar, lemon juice, sour orange juice or verjuice.
Check out menus from the month of August for some great hot weather ideas, essentially the courses served from the credenza were served cold:
http://www.geocities.com/helewyse/augustmenus.html
Lots of roasted meats served cold (e.g. capon), and boiled meats served cold (ham, sausages), plus pies and pastries.
As far as a cold starch, along with the pies I really don't think that you go wrong with the twisted bread of milk and sugar (excellent bread recipe and it freezes well because of it's richness).
http://www.geocities.com/helewyse/twisted.html
Or brazzatelli
http://www.geocities.com/helewyse/bagels.html
or even one of the layered pastries
http://www.geocities.com/helewyse/renaissance_pastries.html
You can check out my previous feasts for other "served cold" items
http://www.geocities.com/helewyse/?200812#Feasts
Plus I still have Scappi and can always find more recipes.
Just contact me off list.
Helewyse
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