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. ************************************************************************ NOTICE - This file is a collection of various messages having a common theme that I have collected from my reading of the various computer networks. Some messages date back to 1989, some may be as recent as yesterday. This file is part of a collection of files called Stefan's Florilegium. These files are available on the Internet at: http://www.florilegium.org I have done a limited amount of editing. Messages having to do with separate topics were sometimes split into different files and sometimes extraneous information was removed. For instance, the message IDs were removed to save space and remove clutter. The comments made in these messages are not necessarily my viewpoints. I make no claims as to the accuracy of the information given by the individual authors. Please respect the time and efforts of those who have written these messages. The copyright status of these messages is unclear at this time. If information is published from these messages, please give credit to the originator(s). Thank you, Mark S. Harris AKA: THLord Stefan li Rous Stefan at florilegium.org ************************************************************************ Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2000 11:50:48 -0500 From: "Michael F. Gunter" 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 Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Hot weather feasts/Italian theme To: Cooks within the SCA 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 Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Hot weather feasts/Italian theme To: Cooks within the SCA 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 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 Edited by Mark S. Harris hot-weth-fsts-msg Page 3 of 4