Hey all,

For those who are going to be showing up for the period food/gaming night on Sunday, February 21st (hopefully a once-a-month event in future); you may want to check out/join jillwheezul's LJ for *lots* of great period recipe information. She is currently working her way through Anna Weckerin's cookbook and just posted a strawberry/gooseberry torte ( Read more... )

Many thanks to ( Read more... )

From "Dining With William Shakespeare" by Madge Lorwin, page 401:

"At Christmas bread bakers sometimes added sugar and currants to bread dough and made little roly-poly figures, with currants for eyes, for the children of their customers. They were not supposed to do this sort of thing, for, according to the statues governing the various baking ( Read more... )

Going about updating some tags on my LJ to include a ‘16th C Food’ section as I am starting to prep for another food workshop for early next year. I know, I know - it’s more than 6 months away: Why start prepping now?

Well there are a couple of reasons. 1) A few of the ‘drink’ selections I would like to make/share take at least a couple of months ( Read more... )

Wow…

The RWA Workshop was a blast: As we did not prep the food samples over the weekend (due to Pele’s passing), hubby and I did all of the shopping and most of the cooking on Monday night. This meant sauces, meat pie filling and waffers. The makings of the blaunderlyes and the rest of the meat pie bits travelled to SF with me and were finished at ( Read more... )

( Just in case anyone was interested in the materials that are included in the handout I will be using for the 'Medieval & Renaissance Foods' presentation in SF, CA next week... )

http://keirasoleore.blogspot.com/

*chuckle*

Per the information included above, there is going to be 'hands on tasting' at the workshop. The good news is, this is a 'pre-RWA Guild Meeting' workshop (*perhas a smaller crowd, perhaps not). The bad new is, I have not idea how many items I should bring....

*snort*

I am already planning on bringing some ( Read more... )

I am going to start webbing some site I have found with good content. These will all be food related and will end up in the workshop bibliography if I use any of their content in the final class. I am going to keep adding to this same entry (to keep it all in one place for my ease of access), so keep checking back if you are interested.

General ( Read more... )

My friend T has asked that I host a 45 minute workshop for her at the Romance Writers of America, Annual Guild meeting in SF on July 30th. Now T is a brilliant garb researcher with a far greater grasp of the periods in question (medieval and renaissance) than I have. She’d been hosting ‘corsets and underwear’ workshops for RWA events for years now ( Read more... )