Activities through 2-16-20

Now, we didn’t go to a new blog after all! We’re staying right here, just paying for it, now. That’s actually a bit of a relief, since it means not having to find everything to transfer!

Paragraph coming week

Herb Bunch – At Ancient Light, Saturdays, 11am-1pm
Sewing Time – At Ancient Light, Saturdays, 3-5pm
Pumpernickle

Project Day – At Ancient Light, Sundays, Noon to 6pm
Cheese and Wine happens irregularly, usually announced with little notice on our Facebook group.
Next Potluck – 3/15, 4/19, 5/17
Winter Feast Date is 2/23/20, Theme German Renaissance

Here is the direct Portfolio link which has all the past Project Day reports and various projects, original here: https://housecapuchin.wordpress.com/portfolio/ and new one here: https://housecapuchin2.wordpress.com/portfolio/ and number three is here: https://housecapuchin3.wordpress.com/portfolio/

Feast Progress – Feast Gear being sorted and labeled. More prep happening. Dishes made and frozen. Stuff readied for subtleties. Printing of recipes and labels.

Summits A&S & Bardic – All Hail, Eleanor de Bolton, the new A&S Champion of the Summits! All Hail, Iurii Victorev Belogorski, our new Bardic Champion!

Invocation of the Arts and Sciences Championship

Early Week – On Wednesday all the boxes of feast gear got pulled out, sorted, and re-arranged. We didn’t have ink so we couldn’t print new lists, but we at least got things started. The treadle sewing machine that’s behind where the garb has been stored had to get folded up so that the boxes could go on top. …we were trying to get that done by Wednesday night, but it kept getting later and later and later….

Cookery – We’re in the last throes of getting ready for the feast.

Tuesday & Wednesday were feast gear, plus some other small things like getting stuff from fridge to freezer or shifting within a freezer.

Thursday we started a new batch of the chicken/mushroom/barley soup, and finished that on Friday.

On Friday some of the vegetable dishes started prep. These are things that will be frozen until late in the coming week.

Fig pudding

On Saturday, spice mixes got prepared for the site tokens in Herbs and we started the pear filling for the stuffed toast. Also, fig pudding. ..and more veg prep for kaltes kraut and then Susanne brought the spaetzle-maker. Then later the turnips got cooked, the marzipan for the subtleties made, the fig pudding finished and put by. I blanched about 1/3 of the vegetables for the kaldes kraut and made the sauce. We also have a set of blanched leeks that can be added to something, when needed.

Kaltes Kraut

When parsley goes to seed it looks like a tiny tree

Some of the cooks are working on skillz… 🙂 Louisa made schnitzel nuggets for her Mom this week. …and a sauce! Isobel and Coleman made the Shrewsbury cakes.

More on Project Day!

Sewing – No one was in for Sewing (where are the people who keep saying they’re going to show up?) so Anja worked on the footstool cover.

Herb Bunch – During the week a lot of watering and tending went on. Some shifting of plants i happening indoors, taking some from the “nursery” area to the sales area and others outside.

Cheese salt

Workshop was interesting this week! Linda and I were doing two different sets of tasks. She made a cheese salt and bagged some of it, then made a powder douce (all but the grains of paradise) and bagged the older stuff. That’s going for site tokens. I was doing veg prep for the kaldes kraut. I went out and harvested a bunch of greens, mostly fennel, sorrel and dandelion, but there were some other small bits of herbs. Tempus got a lot of that washed and I went on to turnips and leeks (which are going into several different dishes…)

Project Day – We started the day with Loren’s having to run to Newport for more ink so we can print the various things, including the cookbook.

While he was gone Stella stopped by with more containers, a trial run on pretzels, and to work on Byla Cesta. Anja may not be able to sing on Sunday, as her asthma is kicking up, but we’re

going to try.

Loren experimented with grinding sugar for the marzipan. He was using the herb grinder. It worked.

Anja spent time on her footstool cover.

In the evening it was all back to cookery, more veg prep (blanched leeks), zesting and pithing lemons for the chicken, a batch of maple candy and a batch of marzipan.

Syrup wasn’t quite cool enough for the large ones…. they squished.

Miscellaneous pix

Frog breath! John standing before the false prophet, the dragon, and the beast. – Royal MS 15 D II; c 1310; ‘The Welles Apocalypse’; England; f.174v @BLMedieval

This is Sir Trude Lacklandia, first lady knight in the SCA. This photo was taken at a Spring crown tourney in The West Kingdom, somewhere near San Francisco, 1976. The gentleman with Trude was nicknamed Tiny. This was years before she got knighted and in fact most fighters would not fight her even in practice. I, and others, encouraged her to come to Phoenix for a practice, which she did. I watched eagerly as she entered the practice field there and the marshalls kind of hemmed and hawed about letting her fight in Atenveldt. Two knights offered to give her chance to prove she could fight. Dennis of The Titans and Deaton Claymore were gracious and polite…. but the attitude was that they were going to show her that she should not be allowed to fight. While Trude had not been allowed to fight in The West, that doesn’t mean she did not have any experience! She did have one fighter who trained her in private and I believe she had some martial arts experience. The look on Dennis and Deatons faces after fighting Trude was priceless!. While I may not have had the forethought to bring out my camera, that moment is burned into my brain! Both men later admitted that “the little lady really cleaned out their clock tower!” Shortly after that Trude moved to Phoenix.

Music – This is supposed to be a playlist. If it doesn’t come up as that, check the right-hand column for the playlist of the same name.

Links

The Legend of Drake’s Drum – https://www.historic-uk.com/CultureUK/Legend-Of-Drakes-Drum/
UNIQUE CELTIC HEAD SCULPTURE GOES ON DISPLAY IN OLOMOUC – https://www.radio.cz/en/section/curraffrs/unique-celtic-head-sculpture-goes-on-display-in-olomouc
The Oldest Cookbooks From Libraries Around the World – https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/oldest-cookbooks
Here Be Monsters – https://www.historytoday.com/history-matters/here-be-monsters
ARCHAEOLOGISTS UNEARTH SEVEN GRAVES DATING BACK TO GREAT MORAVIAN EMPIRE – https://www.radio.cz/en/section/curraffrs/archaeologists-unearth-seven-graves-dating-back-to-great-moravian-empire

Funnies

Anja, Loren, James, Amor, Sasha, Amy, Louisa (v), Isobel (v), Stella

Largesse Item Count – (includes gifts, prizes, auction items, etc.)

ASXLVII = 24
ASXLVIII = 88
ASXLIX = 794
ASL = 2138
ASLI = 731
ASLII = 304
ASLIII – 146
ASLIV – 185 plus 2 puppets, 3 hippocras mix, 20 powder fort packets, 5 tiny bobs, lucet cords, 25 pouches for block-printing, 1 medium pouch, 4 small pouches, 12 bookmarkers, 18 unfinished pincushions, 1 sewing kit (except for bone needle), varnished stuff (124)

Total as a Household = 4016 handed off

In ministerio autem Somnium! Anja, graeca doctrina servus to House Capuchin
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