No Feast of Fools
Apr. 3rd, 2009 08:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
memelainaI was planning on cooking my first SCA feast in two years this weekend. I took a vacation from cooking feasts when we won the bid for the Denvention worldcon. So this was my "comeback". Since it's a small feast (only six tables) we could plan some more work-intensive dishes and since it's an April Fools feast we could plan some fun things like Green Eggs and Ham and Nipples of Venus.
I came home from Scrabble Club last night to find that the feast has been cancelled because of our impending snow storm. I have mixed feelings. The older I get the more a solid day of work in the kitchen distresses me. On the other hand, we've been practicing dishes and recipes for a couple of weeks and I was really getting in to this. Originally, I wanted to just pull one of my canned feasts from the computer and do it. Terry talked me into planning from scratch and researching and trying new dishes. Not a disaster, exactly, but what exactly am I going to DO with a bushel basket of red cabbage and five dozen eggs during a snowstorm?
On another side of the topic, do you think that it would be worthwhile putting together a website or printed book of ready-to-cook feasts? I have a couple dozen all complete with shopping lists, equipment lists, timetables and recipes. Would there be any interest in making those public? Whatcha think?
I came home from Scrabble Club last night to find that the feast has been cancelled because of our impending snow storm. I have mixed feelings. The older I get the more a solid day of work in the kitchen distresses me. On the other hand, we've been practicing dishes and recipes for a couple of weeks and I was really getting in to this. Originally, I wanted to just pull one of my canned feasts from the computer and do it. Terry talked me into planning from scratch and researching and trying new dishes. Not a disaster, exactly, but what exactly am I going to DO with a bushel basket of red cabbage and five dozen eggs during a snowstorm?
On another side of the topic, do you think that it would be worthwhile putting together a website or printed book of ready-to-cook feasts? I have a couple dozen all complete with shopping lists, equipment lists, timetables and recipes. Would there be any interest in making those public? Whatcha think?
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Date: 2009-04-03 04:30 pm (UTC)If it had just been rescheduled rather than cancelled, the eggs & cabbage might well have kept. Failing that, I have to agree with the fellow before me that those items seem eminently donatable.
Despite the minor problem I have with the term "canned feast" feeling like an oxymoron, the idea seems very useful.
It's been years since Judy did any SCA cooking, but I remember that one of her basic references was a U.S. Army manual full of recipes with measurements for (I think)50. Which scaled very readily. No idea if that's still around, and she's down in Tampa for a symposium this week.