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Activities through 4-26-20

House Capuchin Shield2Wow! I had *no* idea that I was putting up so many class links until I looked at the length of this post! In these plague times, they’re something to enjoy!

There are lots of links below, a couple of recipes that I haven’t written down before, lots of herbs and progress on other projects.

Looking forward to An Tir’s dance video! There are several other kingdoms’ vids below.

All meetings are on hold for the moment, although Project Day and the Monthly Potluck are being held in the Virtual Realm.

  • Herb Bunch – At Ancient Light, Saturdays, 11am-1pm
  • Sewing Time – At Ancient Light, Saturdays, 3-5pm
  • Project Day – At Ancient Light, Sundays, Noon to 6pm
  • Cheese and Wine happens irregularly, usually announced with little notice on our Facebook group.
  • Next Virtual Potluck – 5/17
  • Next Winter Feast tentative Date is 2/15/21, Theme ??

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/

Misc – Now Ealdormere!

Go Atenveldt!

…and Aethelmarc!

Silly Blatha an Oir!

Nordmark!

…and the outtakes….chasing the cat!

Trimaris!

An Tir’s are due to start being put together on Monday!

Classes – So many of these are on Facebook Live or Google! I’ve been talking with teachers, trying to get them to put more of these on YouTube since it’s still more accessible, but not all of them can be. I think I’m also going to put up a new games page. …Wow, there are a *lot*! No, I didn’t get to all of these, just most… 🙂

History of Chess – Recording of class –  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wlR0Je4Xg3tBQZznmCTDnkrGr7IGwsIV/view?fbclid=IwAR23zvAPb9Tegv448dnzEZXZhDHMF1r6pd39y5GCaqU7LzldEYHZVTniOPE

History of Chess – Class handout – https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QvlsbYao3mgSQlvSzKLLSE-WxzNPNhDZ/view?fbclid=IwAR3AltChBqiHNFtLbDPTQ-JEiLpww2K7z75XeM5-xhtjrzbw0wdd7nSnXno

Intro to Board Games – https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/137sYF6QuBxxFqd5eBYHbYoZP1YX8a9HK?fbclid=IwAR19FhU4CEM6w4L4RGFkA3haitiACHeZNuyySJKrBGp49Us7DY6OTiHoxS0

Handout – https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LFXmgBWALavzz8QBySUeIXlRSjhGOi-F/view?fbclid=IwAR2iTMVtOgaiaew09oGvrUoArEzZMHY7AlmUDYXvqhUUYGLLXXrtLP8QWpw

Retinue Management – https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hWAlQec1yVeKLm9_RtRjrWp9hMbG1RkP/view?fbclid=IwAR2auTp1KWJ1O_41kSO_9jM_GkRyyJSVj3xrpa12E0MlR6m89b8z0PZfbgk

Women related to Henry VIII – https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOpLjR19vbsqGe_63lBaojg?fbclid=IwAR0B1LXr7UgO5qSbTKJzKGHd_9EKxq5rMEkYwchsIltPlIUMLmql7zpAnU4&app=desktop

Gluckhuas – https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ahKHpM8jM7P4b1wgEjMWMkNw1xLmw3e6/view?fbclid=IwAR1GfgjgcM7sbQ_S-ec6kZjNIukIEDECNt0FcgnHpEajLR5eV6Ftoctu1Gg

Pretzels – http://cinnamonspiceblog.com/trip-munich-original-german-pretzel-recipe/?fbclid=IwAR0fjVLoLR5GDLiNNJEBp-rPpyRnXSfDtC-QVPhhovsBWXGoO5Ic3MZWk0I

Pears in Syrup – https://giveitforth.blogspot.com/2016/06/harleian-ms-279-ab-1430-wardonys-in.html?fbclid=IwAR376JvjSG-bC6tIhmdeDhI8B37FlLuTZ1M_7B1FE4r7iDQiCFdIisX-SfE

Roman Bread – https://www.facebook.com/events/166303994421467/permalink/178459309872602/?notif_t=event_mall_reply&notif_id=1587562482306930

Analects-Virtual Drinking Game  – https://www.facebook.com/events/2280618902243268/

Segmented Cups – https://www.facebook.com/events/222801225613468/

Card game – Laugh and Lay Down – https://www.facebook.com/events/891944467987890/

Chipcarving Basics – https://www.facebook.com/events/1178181219180695/

History of Playing Cards – https://www.facebook.com/events/679063292868657/

Sekanjabin – A drink to quench your thirst – https://www.facebook.com/events/536644457040324/

Alquerque – https://www.facebook.com/events/679375062893054/

Modelbucher : Where to find them and what to do with them – This class was awesome. There will be a recording but here are the slides…. (done by Modelbuch Muse) https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ERzGBJoIqbHi3RcRrcauCDwb2CMKYjJ6QEp39VvTboY/edit?fbclid=IwAR34fFI7f1EDhpfQ1GRN_F-vlmeMG4RQqyZcwr59c57fIAI19772oR4XJ6w#slide=id.g5c0c77fa0c_0_0

Squirrel Gambling Hall – This was a hoot! – There are several cuts of the thing and handout and such here. https://www.facebook.com/events/242057633827879/

Cheesy stuff – Kefir grains, Cheese, butter, creme fraiche, starters, hard cider

Early Week – All of Monday was taken up with getting the report for the week done, because your scribe was in three classes: History of Chess, History of Board Games and Retinue 101! The rest of the week was nutty with classes, seminars, sewing circles, etc.

I’ve been in contact with some of the people who are putting things up only as Facebook Live or on Google and not on Youtube.

Cookery – Tuesday night another batch of the chicken dish from last week got made…this time without the excess of clove. We also tried it on a “trencher”, actually a bread roll, sliced open, and liked it quite a bit! You can kinda see the “trencher” under the chicken….at least the shape of it.

One last batch got made late in the week and the various dishes got made with harvested herbs on Saturday and Sunday. (Pix of herbs below and recipes in that section)

Sewing – Anja’s finally going on that cuff again. She’s also hunting the fabric that was set aside for the hedeby and messenger bags that she’s making. Finally got a picture of the other stool frame, too. She got involved in a TP sewing circle online on Sunday. Another zoom, so it wasn’t much.

Sundials, etc. – Hedeby bag frame is ready for sanding, iow, cut and drilled.

Herb Bunch – For a lot of the week there was tending going on with the inside plants. On Saturday a major effort outside got a bunch of things weeded, new dirt added, potted, re-potted, harvested etc. Harvested sorrel went into salad. Thyme and fennel were set aside to dry. On Sunday the chive blossoms were to be battered and fried and some of the chives used with buttered potatoes and the rest set aside to dry, as well. Didn’t happen… (more below)

Project Day – Started with working on plants and plant pix. Anja opened the project day window, but was dividing her time between that and the TP sewing circle. Later she did a class called “Oh, Hel!” which was on the development of language. One of the first words analysed was “fart”. 🙂 That was a fantastic class! An hour later was one on pattern books. At that point, she went to cook and get pix of more of the herbs and the recipes below.

Peggy Vlach stopped in to say hi and she’s doing more masks.

In the evening we were trying to do some cookery and had the hotplate fail on us in the middle. That means no pix on the chive blossom fritters, since they can’t be done until we have some kind of frying device. So, next week….

Recipes

No clue if the next recipe is period, but it’s yummy and the blossoms are fun!

Chive butter for rice, potatoes, noodles, etc. 

  • A bundle of chive stalks that you can just fit your fingers around.
  • 1/2 pound of butter.

Method

  1. Wash the chives well and shake off water.
  2. Lay out on an absorbent towel and let dry for about an hour, stirring a couple of times.
  3. If you have blossoms sort those and their stems out of the stack and use in the recipe below.
  4. Chop the chives 3/8 to 1/2 inch long. You can use scissors.
  5. Melt butter (I used a glass cup in the nuker, usually 1 minute and then stir until it’s finished melting.
  6. A chives to butter and stir well. Leave in a warm place for a couple of hours, or overnight, stirring several times. It will thicken.
  7. Transfer to a “keeper” box and only pull out what you need for what you’re making.
  8. This can be molded into sticks like regular butter or whatever you prefer. I use 2oz semi-conical cups (Tupperware minis) that have a tight-sealing lid and freeze.
  9. To use: run hot water over the outside and pop the molds out on top of the dish to melt. They look kinda cool sitting on a plate, too.

Chive blossom fritters

  • chive blossoms with the stems still on
  • 1 egg
  • 1 tsp milk or cream
  • Sufficient flour to make a thick batter (about…. ) You may use *any* flour for this, but the blander, the better as chive is a delicate flavor.
  • Salt
  • Butter (enough to fill your smalles frying pan 1/2 to 1 inch deep)

Method

  1. Wash chives.
  2. Trim stems to within 2 inches of the blossom. (Save pieces….)
  3. Let stand on absorbent towel for about an hour, stirring occasionally.
  4. Mix egg and cream.
  5. Crush the stem pieces that aren’t attached to blossoms. (I use a garlic press.)
  6. Add to egg mixture.
  7. Sift flour into the mixture until it is a medium batter.
  8. Let stand for 1/2 an hour. If it’s a bit thin, add some more flour.
  9. Ready a small pan with about 1/2 to 1 inch of melted butter.
  10. Dip each blossom into the batter using the stem as a handle.
  11. Drop into the hot fat and fry until browning and crisp, using tongs or a slotted spoon to transfer cooked ones to an absorbent towel as they’re done.
  12. Fry any extra batter as a single cake in the butter.
  13. A good presentation is a pretty plate with the cake on it, topped by the fried blossoms.

(Betty Botter bought a bit of butter, but, she said, “The butter’s bitter! If I put it in my batter, it will make the batter bitter.” So Betty Botter bought a bit of better butter and her batter was not bitter…..”)

Miscellaneous pix

Music 

New/Updated pages

New/Updated page on Cheese – https://wp.me/P8ngGY-3hv

Links

Video Links

Funnies 

Joao V Conrado There was an attempt by a mytical king Mærital to join all major kingdoms into a strong, Greatssex.
That union eventually happened, and Pre-Mærital kingdoms of Sussex, Essex, Wessex and Middlessex created what was named The Wædlock.
But soon discontent erupted among saxons within The Wædlock, as they believed saxons out of the union were freer, the reason they named unaffiliated kingdoms The Freessex.
And so, the constant exodus of saxons to the Freessex kingdoms of Kinkyssex and Randomssex, eventually led to the end of The Wædlock…

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

  • ASXLVII = 24
  • ASXLVIII = 88
  • ASXLIX = 794
  • ASL = 2138
  • ASLI = 731
  • ASLII = 304
  • ASLIII – 146
  • ASLIV – 207 plus 4 puppets, 3 hippocras mix, 4 powder fort, 9 cheese spice and 10 powder douce packets, 10 tiny bobs, 8 pincushions, 5 pins, 5 snip case w/snips, lucet cords, 25 pouches for block-printing, 1 medium pouch, 4 small pouches, 12 bookmarkers, 14 unfinished pincushions, 1 sewing kit (except for bone needle), varnished stuff (124)

Total as a Household = 4038 handed off

moving writing pen motifIn ministerio autem Somnium! Anja, graeca doctrina servus to House Capuchin
Page Created 4/20/20 & published 4/27/20 (C)M. Bartlett
Last updated 4/27/20

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Activities through 4-19-20 Virtual Potluck

House Capuchin Shield2Can you imagine if this goes on all summer? I don’t really want to think about it, but dayum…. Lots more classes are coming online every day? There’s a games symposium this week, with 12 classes on various games including Gluckhaus, Chess and Tarot…although one of their classes is labeled Albequerque… I thought it was Alquerque… Well, your scribe’s been taking advantage of the

Chicken and yolks with the sauce poured over

feast! Some of the better classes are linked below.

…and there are challenges going on! In cooking, in largesse, dance-offs! Take advantage of this!

The meetings that the House is holding are the Virtual Project Day (weekly) and the Virtual Potluck (monthly) We can’t do any more than that with the regulations at the moment.

  • Project Day – At Ancient Light, Sundays, Noon to 6pm
  • Carrots, onion, assorted greens, garlic, leeks….

    Next Virtual Potluck – 5/17, 6/21

  • Next Winter Feast tentative Date is 2/15/21, Theme ??

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/

Yay, Meridies!

…and yay for the folks in this one! Not a dance-off.

Search for the Cure pt 2 – https://drachenwald.sca.org/posts/news/2020/04/13/search-for-the-cure-part2/?fbclid=IwAR3MrxkyI0iHP5EVFu6xEpYMezjkib_Fhn6s5jgeqeKZcvD97RA5g0E11qk

Classes

Early Week – Your scribe was down with a migraine, so the weekly report went out later than usual and nothing much else was going on. Loren finished the bag holder (on Wednesday) that we were working on last week, so that got filled and put to use.

Cookery – More meat pies and more pie crusts got done on Wednesday. Girdle Cakes Friday evening.

Capouns in Councys was Saturday, along with some root veg and greens.

Chicken and yolks with the sauce poured over

Anja’s notes from Saturday – The dripping thing in the shelves was a sweet potato that didn’t make it to the fridge. <sigh> It dripped and molded all over the parsnips and turnips, (ew) so I asked Loren to deal with it. He got a bucket and took it all outside, thankfully. He also needed to wash the leek leaves. That is one muddy vegetable…. I got the carrots, the no-longer-muddy leeks and some onions going in a pot and the chicken in the nuker and then went out and planted the leek and onion ends. … 2nd batch of veg went in, scrubbed, peeled and chopped, after the first was drained. When those were cooked, the chicken went into the broth to “Seethe him that they be tendre.” Bread crumbs and spices were next and then plating, pour the sauce over and eat! Pix below…. Sunday was more meat and fruit pies and then the Pompeii Leeks and Olive.

Sewing – With fewer than two rows to go, the footstool cover was almost done on Monday. The last stitches went in on Thursday. There might be some fill-in needed once it’s going onto the board. We started working on what will be on the inside. Tempus worked out how to do the support boards and went hunting for the other piece of needlework canvas for the sitting stool. Anja found a bunch of needlework patterns that she’s starting to work up for her Mab’s Creations stuff and then pulled out the last cuff and started working on that. No pix, yet.

Sundials, etc. – Hedeby Bag frame….

Herb Bunch – Things are really starting to get big and bloom! Sprouting garlics got planted when discovered in the bin and a couple of potatoes that were trying to grow beards. 🙂 Lots of weeding was done and some discoveries of things that have volunteered… There’s more to do…always.

Herbs

Foods

Ornamental

Project Day – Anja started the day with a class in bucellatum, then got into a fiber day thing that didn’t work very well. Checking in on the Virtual Project Day event and also the regular House Capuchin page was next. Plant tending needed to be done. After that she sat down with paper and pencil and tried to figure out what she needed on the inside of the footstool cover.

We had a couple of people participating in the virtual world.

Potluck – This being a virtual potluck, we got pictures all week as we prepared and ate things. Sunday morning the leek and olive dish got prepped, then made pie crusts and baked small pies, 4 each of meat pies and apple/berry. Plants were next, then photos. After a delay while Loren did some work outside, we sat down to our little feast.

Potluck Menu

Beverages

  • Fruit Cordial
  • Strawberry Lemonade
  • Posca (recipe & process pix below)

Nibbles (no pix)

  • Bread and butter
  • Pickles
  • fig jam
  • cheese

Main

  • Bean Pottage
  • Girdle Cakes (oat/chickpea)
  • Renaissance Meat Pie
  • Capouns in Councys (recipe & process pix below)
  • Boiled root veg in butter sauce
  • Pompeii Leeks with Olives (recipe & process pix below)

Afters

  • Seedcake (no pic, yet)
  • Cherry pie
  • Peach pie
  • Strawberry pie
  • Berry pie
  • Comfits (no pic)

Recipes

Take capons (chicken) and roast him right that he be not half-enough (half-cooked) and hew him to gobbets and cast him in a pot. Do thereto clean broth. (Add strained broth) Seeth him that he be tender. (Simmer) Take bread and the self-broth and draw it up together (drain the chicken and put bread in the broth). Take Powder Forte and Saffron and salt and cast thereto. (add it…) Take eggs and seeth them hard (hardboil some eggs). Take out the yolks and hew the white therein. (Separate whites and yolks and chop the white.) Take the pot from the fire and cast the white therein. Messe the dishes therewith (plate the chicken, pour the sauce over.) Lay the yolks whole and flour it with cloves. (Set the whole yolks around attractively and sprinkle the whole thing with ground clove.)

Some changes and additions to the recipe. I got the broth from a pot of veg that I boiled up in two lots. Carrot, turnip, parsnip, a couple of rosemary needles, a bay leaf, leeks, leftover salad greens, dandelion, sorrel and cress leaves, thinnings and a carrot top and a couple of small beet leaves along with a single huge nasturtium leaf, and a little salt. The veg were strained a set aside and the broth went back into the pot.

I nuked the chicken until it wasn’t pink, then shredded with a fork, then simmered until done along with mustard, caraway, horseradish, garlic and salt. I didn’t have any non-pepper powder fort!. After that the chicken went into a serving dish and 1/2 the broth went into a canning jar. The other half got a big pinch of saffron and a bunch of breadcrumbs and I let it heat for a couple of minutes after stirring. I got the hardboiled eggs taken apart. Yolks went on top of the chicken. I chopped the whites and that went into the sauce, which was done about 30 seconds after that with some frantic stirring. Sauce was poured over the serving dish and then I “floured” with the clove….far too much clove since I didn’t realize there was no shaker top in the jar. Loren liked it, though. I loved the parts where the clove was light.

The veg went beside the chicken on the plate with a pat of butter. It’s nicely spicy (where it wasn’t tongue-numbing) and the veg, not being heavily spiced, were a good contrast.

Pompeii Leeks with Olives

  • 100 ml water, 3/8 cup
  • 100 ml oil, 3/8 cup
  • 1 large leek, trimmed, washed, sliced into rings
  • 200g green olives, ½ cup
  • 100 ml strong white wine, 3/8 cup
  • garum or salt
  1. Bring the water, and oil to the boil in a saucepan, put in the leek and let it stew.
  2. Stone the olives and chop roughly into quarters.
  3. Add them to the leek when the water has evaporated.
  4. Leave to stew in the oil.
  5. When hot remove the olives and leek from the oil and place in a heated serving dish.
  6. Stir in the wine and garum or salt and serve.

Posca

Make a syrup of red wine or balsamic vinegar and honey 1:1. Heat until dissolved, then bottle and store until needed. (Keeps at least a year at room temp!)

Take your pitcher and fill, mostly full, with water. Add 1.4 cup syrup to the quart and stir. Store in the fridge, but it will keep for a day or so at room temp. Cover it or you will have a fruitfly trap….

Miscellaneous pix

Music

Links

Video links

Funnies 

Anja, Loren, Sasha, Amor, Aurora, Peggy Vlach, Isabeau, Elizabeth Arthur

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

  • ASXLVII = 24
  • ASXLVIII = 88
  • ASXLIX = 794
  • ASL = 2138
  • ASLI = 731
  • ASLII = 304
  • ASLIII – 146
  • ASLIV – 207 plus 4 puppets, 3 hippocras mix, 4 powder fort, 9 cheese spice and 10 powder douce packets, 10 tiny bobs, 8 pincushions, 5 pins, 5 snip case w/snips, lucet cords, 25 pouches for block-printing, 1 medium pouch, 4 small pouches, 12 bookmarkers, 14 unfinished pincushions, 1 sewing kit (except for bone needle), varnished stuff (124)

Total as a Household = 4038 handed off

moving writing pen motifIn ministerio autem Somnium! Anja, graeca doctrina servus to House Capuchin
Page Created 4/14/20 & published 4/20/20 (C)M. Bartlett
Last updated 4/20/20

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Activities through 4-12-20

House Capuchin Shield2More classes, more links! Being home is making bored teachers go online! 🙂 That’s why I’ve separated the Class Links from the Music Links and from the rest of the links.

The Elizabethan outfit I’ve always wanted! on a doll. Oh well. Believe it or not the doll is a Betsy McCall pattern. Remember her? I bet lots of folks don’t!

Projects are continuing. Herb Bunch people have turned our Earth Day field trip into a delivery of plants, and we’re working on our home gardens. The Hedeby bag (for a gift exchange) is finally started. Footstool cover is almost done, on to the next step!

…and this is a day late because of migraine… <sigh>

All classes and meetings are either on hold or in the Virtual Realm. We still need to decide on our theme for the coming year’s Winter Feast!

  • Herb Bunch – At Ancient Light, Saturdays, 11am-1pm (on hold)
  • Sewing Time – At Ancient Light, Saturdays, 3-5pm (on hold)
  • Project Day – At Ancient Light, Sundays, Noon to 6pm (Virtual Realm)
  • Cheese and Wine happens irregularly, usually announced
    Sadb – Masks

    with little notice on our Facebook group. (on hold)

  • Next Virtual Potluck – 4/19, 5/17 (Virtual Realm)
  • Next Winter Feast tentative Date is 2/15/21, Theme ??

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/

Well, the Mid-Realm took up the Challenge!

Some of the “Your Own Version of Art” pictures that are from period

Amor’s Bagpipes – I spent most of Monday laughing in delight! Amor called during the afternoon to say that he had decided to make a set of bagpipes. He was inspired by this picture….

OK, what nut would think that would work, right? So, he started in….

He posted a video that you can see on the House Capuchin Facebook. I couldn’t save it to put here…. I don’t know if this link will work. Let me know!

https://www.facebook.com/randomjediness/videos/pcb.3453793374636088/3453788697969889/?type=3&theater

Early Week – Nothing much.

Cookery – Anja made sunkoflecky, a Czech easter casserole on Tuesday and the recipe turned out to be awful. The stuff tasted ok, at least.

On Wednesday we started making up some of the excess pie dough ingredients from the feast, planning to freezer them after making some for now and some for freezing for potlucks. The first set of actual pieces was on Thursday: strawberry, peach and cherry.

On Saturday the meat filling was finally finished: apples, almonds, a few pecans, currents and craisins, nutmeg, and some maple syrup. Yum!

On Sunday in – SCA Virtual Classroom and Artisan Display Sylvie la Chardonniere‎ posted –
Virtual cooking challenge #1 – Capouns in councy XXIL – The Forme of Cury
Something new, let’s see how this works out.
This is a challenge, not a competition. Try something new, learn something, teach something.
This is a picture of a recipe from “The Forme of Cury” (~1390 London, England) (https://amzn.to/2JX4XqX). As with most medieval recipes this is fairly open to interpretation.
I challenge our cooks (and cooking curious folks), give this your best shot and then in one week on April 18, 2020 we will share images/videos of what was created and feedback on the dish.
Yes, I know that scarcity is a thing (Quarantine and all)..substitutions encouraged as needed.
New to medieval recipe interpretation? Share your questions below and I (and our members) will do our best to help.
Bonne cuisine!!
— in Orangevale, California.

Sewing – A couple of things were getting worked on during the week. Anja is also looking into the rest of the footstool project and picking a pattern for the sitting stool.

Sundials, etc. – Loren’s current project set.

Herb Bunch – During the week we were all discussing getting herbs from the Thyme Garden, since a number of us need starts. Plant buckets were getting painted. On Friday one of the Herb Bunch people set up the plant delivery for Tuesday. I got my lotus seeds on Saturday.

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Project Day – There was a virtual RenFair running on Facebook in the early part of the day. I don’t know whether the link will open or not.  https://www.facebook.com/WWW.RenFaire/videos/879300275829009/?__tn__=%2CdK*F-R&eid=ARDbdTgycz7iz_-_RvV0POnXx95o6tro7aOEJ8jGAqZHBBKST22mtD1Tab0Lw3eQVgJwXRYv3UL01M_v&hc_location=group_dialog

The Virtual Project Day started a bit early. Dame Juliana chimed in, first.

Then Peggy did.

..and Isabeau & Sadb

…and Loren’s and mine.

Classes

Official bowtie setting tutorial

Video about dressing armor around 1360 from our exhibition “In the Service of the King” in the Velhartice Castle. The exhibition took place between 2016 and 2019. This video was professionally prepared by archaeologist Mgr. Pavel Macků.

This is a series of classes on silk banenr painting

Fingerloop braiding

Anglosaxon bread

Making medieval shows

 

Recipes

Miscellaneous pix

Music

Links

Funnies 

Anja, Loren, Amor (V), Stella (V), Peggy (V), Juliana (V), Isabeau (V), Sadb (V)

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

  • ASXLVII = 24
  • ASXLVIII = 88
  • ASXLIX = 794
  • ASL = 2138
  • ASLI = 731
  • ASLII = 304
  • ASLIII – 146
  • ASLIV – 207 plus 4 puppets, 3 hippocras mix, 4 powder fort, 9 cheese spice and 10 powder douce packets, 10 tiny bobs, 8 pincushions, 5 pins, 5 snip case w/snips, lucet cords, 25 pouches for block-printing, 1 medium pouch, 4 small pouches, 12 bookmarkers, 14 unfinished pincushions, 1 sewing kit (except for bone needle), varnished stuff (124)

Total as a Household = 4038 handed off

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Activities through 4-5-20

House Capuchin Shield2Classes and Links, oh my! There’s a feast of SCA related research, projects, how-to’s and classes online! We’ve nabbed out some that we’ve taken or watched or used and parked ’em below. We’ve got a *lot* of links.

There’s not a lot being posted. Everyone seems very busy, but mostly on mundane projects. That includes Loren, too! We have a couple of things in here, mostly progress pix.

All meetings are in the virtual realm or on hold.

  • Herb Bunch – At Ancient Light, Saturdays, 11am-1pm
  • Sewing Time – At Ancient Light, Saturdays, 3-5pm
  • Project Day – At Ancient Light, Sundays, Noon to 6pm
  • Cheese and Wine happens irregularly, usually announced with little notice on our Facebook group.
  • Next Virtual Potluck – 4/19, 5/17
  • Next Winter Feast tentative Date is 2/15/21, Theme ??

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/

Dance Challenge by the Order of the Black Knights!

Kingdom of Drachenwald 
Greetings from the social media officer.
We have received a message from their Majesties of Drachenwald about the search for a cure for the plague. https://youtu.be/sfU0vn2MopU
Yis
Edricus
Drachenwald social media officer
A video sponsored by their majesties Drachenwald featuring the alchemist Arcadia, for the entertainment and merryment of the kingdom.

The Search for the Cure pt1 – https://youtu.be/sfU0vn2MopU

Guedelon Castle – “If you have planned a visit with your students, or are looking for activities for children at home, you will find a set of educational sheets to download for free!
From French to science, from history to plastic arts, the construction of strong castles will no longer have secrets for you 🏰🙂
https://www.guedelon.fr/fr/les-fiches-pedagogiques_46.html ”

Early Week – Some of the feast equipment is floating to the top and getting put away. There’s more that hasn’t reappeared.

Cookery – Rizky and spaetzle got made on Tuesday. Getting better at those.

Rizky, top left, with spaetzel below and peas and carrots to the right. >>>> 

Sewing – Last thing last week Anja flipped that footstool cover and is working up the other side, having picked out the oopsie. She got a page made chronicling the progress.  https://mabscreations.wordpress.com/project-gallery/footstool-covers/ . Several pieces of the Sartor scraps got prepped early in the week and then a bit of sewing happened later in the week.

Herb Bunch – Plant pictures along with the tending, this week. A bunch of plants in the north window got shifted around and more plant shelves put up.

Herbs & Food

Ornamentals

Project Day – Started with finding the links and the classes below. The music had gotten filled in over the week. Isabeau, and Peggy were the ones who posted projects.

Classes this week

Dutts unter dem Haarnetz – Buns under a silk hairnet

Blog page that goes with the class, above. Lots more! – https://wh1350.at/de/kleidung/haar-pflege-und-frisuren-im-14ten-jahrhundert/

Here is a class on some very basics on Persona Development in the SCA – https://www.facebook.com/groups/virtualsca/permalink/699250367479417/

Bentwood boxes (zoom) PDF here: https://alasdairmacroibeirthome.files.wordpress.com/2019/08/bentwood-boxes-documentation-2-27-19-final.pdf

Miscellaneous pix

Music

Links

Funnies 

Anja, Loren, Sasha (v), Isabeau (v), Peggy (v)

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

  • ASXLVII = 24
  • ASXLVIII = 88
  • ASXLIX = 794
  • ASL = 2138
  • ASLI = 731
  • ASLII = 304
  • ASLIII – 146
  • ASLIV – 207 plus 4 puppets, 3 hippocras mix, 4 powder fort, 9 cheese spice and 10 powder douce packets, 10 tiny bobs, 8 pincushions, 5 pins, 5 snip case w/snips, lucet cords, 25 pouches for block-printing, 1 medium pouch, 4 small pouches, 12 bookmarkers, 14 unfinished pincushions, 1 sewing kit (except for bone needle), varnished stuff (124)

Total as a Household = 4038 handed off

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Activities through 3-29-20 Virtual Coronet Weekend

House Capuchin Shield2Many, many things are going on in the Virtual World. Concerts and classes are the big ones, but you can see by the links and info in this week’s newsletter that people aren’t letting any grass grow under their feet!

We are still holding all House Capuchin meetings in the virtual world.

  • Herb Bunch – At Ancient Light, Saturdays, 11am-1pm (on hold)
  • Sewing Time – At Ancient Light, Saturdays, 3-5pm (on hold)
  • Project Day – At Ancient Light, Sundays, Noon to 6pm (virtual only)
  • Cheese and Wine happens irregularly, usually announced with little notice on our Facebook group. (on hold)
  • Next Virtual Potluck – 4/19, 5/17
  • Next Winter Feast tentative Date is 2/15/21, Theme ??

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/

Duncan Vitrarius to Barony of Stromgard – Discussion Forum,

Visual StorytellerMarch 23 at 7:13 PM

A little bit of An Tir history, just for fun.

Event Description — Anno Societatis VIII

Year 8 – Royal Tourney of Union, Principality of An Tir, May 27, AS VIII (1973), Wallingford Playfield, Seattle, WA

Event Description From: The Page (July, 1973)

It has recently been the happy fortune of the Baronies of Madrone and Three Mountains to discover that together they fulfill the requirements for chartering as a Principality of this Kingdom. They are even now petitioning to the Board of Directors to be so chartered. In anticipation thereof, they are holding a Tourney and Celebration on Sunday, May 27. His Highness has promised to attend as King; hence the tourney’s title, Royal Tourney of Union.

The chief event of the day will be the signing of the Charter of Union (this is not the same charter they will receive from the Society, since that may not be processed by the 27th). Fighting twealzie-wopping, cookery, music, dancing, games, and awards will also occur. Cooking facilities, cold water, and sanitary facilities will be available. Bring pavilions, provisions for your household and suitable garments.

The Tourney will be held in Wallingford Playfield in Seattle from 1:00 pm to dusk. For any necessary information, call the autocrats, Liam of the Barque (contact info omitted); or Gernot of Gallimaufry (contact info omitted). Evening revels are rumoured; ask the autocrats.

From The Page (July, 1973):

His Majesty and several of his Civil Service attended the Royal Tourney of Union held by the incipient Principality in the North (a name is still to be chosen. We suggested Cascadia, but it seems that’s a local home for the bewildered). A document was signed by Barons Frederick of the West Tower and Ryamond the Mild and by the King, in earnest of the formal Charter still to be received from the Board. “Your Majesty,” quoth Liam of the Barque, Castellan of Madrone (taht is, the Baron’s vicar while the Baron is in Atenveldt), “I trust we will not have to send our collection agency down for the real one.” “No,” answered His Majesty, “but it might be fun if you did.”

His Majesty then made Raymond the Mild, Baron of Madrone, a Master-of-Arms, and gave Awars of Arms to Liam of the Barque and Dierdre Muldomnagh, and to Lady Nineva, Lady Gwili, and Geoffrey of Speraunce, the members of the Order of the Red Branch (a Baronial order in Madrone for masochism above and beyond the call of duty). Finally, he awarded the Order of the Laurel to David of Baguley, an exceedingly accomplished musician, composer, leader of the Baron’s Singers and member of the Voice of the Turtle. The Principality is well stocked with artists, fighters, and administrators, and will form a fruitful and laudable branch of this Kingdom.

From the History (by Wilhelm von Schlüssel):

Liam of the Barque and Gernot of Gallimaufry autocratted. King Paul presided. At this tournament the Baronies of Madrone and Three Mountains united to form a principality, the name of which had not yet been chosen. King Paul, Baron Frederic of the WestTower (Three Mountains) and Baron Raymond the Mild (Madrone) signed a charter of union, in the place of the formal charter which had yet to be signed by the Board of Directors. King Paul gave Awards of Arms to Dierdre Muldomhnaigh, Geoffrey of Speraunce, Gwili, Liam of the Barque, and Nineva. He admitted David of Bagulay to the Order of the Laurel and made Baron Raymond the Mild a Master of Arms.

Annotations:
“I remember going up to Raymond afterwards and congratulating him after telling him that I didn’t really believe in Masters of Arms. Several years later when I became (through no fault of my own) a court baron, Raymond came up to me and congratulated me after telling me he didn’t really believe in court barons.” – Steven MacEanruig

Event Staff:
Staff who helped run this event. Details are taken from newsletter copy or other information found, sometimes provided by people if not in those sources.
Autocrat — Gernot of Gallimaufry

Early Week – Susanne dropped off the dishes from her Feast care package on Monday, leaving the bag outside the shop door for Anja to nab after she’d left. There are a lot of dishes still floating out there…. <hint, hint> 🙂

Anja worked on the cookbook. By Wednesday all the info was in, but it still needed photos. It got loaded up without. …and then reloaded on Friday, when it got finished. Here: https://wp.me/P8ngGY-2bp It’s in both Word and PDF. It also got added to the Cookbooks page.

Cookery – On Monday we decided to play with the bay nuts. Google said either 45 minutes at 350 or 30 at 450, so we turned a 400F oven down to 350 and cooked ’em for 15….. they were absolutely black! So we cracked off the rest of the shells, bapped a couple of stubborn ones with a knife handle and got the shells cracked that way and tossed ’em into the herb grinder. Oi! Even mixing 1/2 and half with almond flour (hey, that’s a nut, too, right?) the flour was sticky enough to lag down the grinder… and smelled a little smoky….

Thursday night we made a batch of spaetzle. That was tasty.

Loren made bread on Friday, but didn’t use the nut flour.

Sewing – Sorting projects and putting non-current ones away was a big part of the early week stuff. Anja got a scrap bag from a purse-maker with a nice stash of Sartor fabrics. Pincushions and bobs and pouches, here we come!

Arlys posted a challenge to the Embellisher’s Guild

A PROJECT FOR THE EMBELLISHERS OF AN TIR

Please note that this project is FOR FUN, and ONLY IF YOU WANT TO. In future, it might be nice to display our interpretations at Twelfth Night or some other event as members of the Guild.

A number of period pattern books have patterns which can be used in any number of embroidery styles.They can also be converted to lace, used for leatherwork, block printing, etc. Showing others how we converted our patterns for our choice of media could be part of the fun.

With much difficulty, I narrowed the selections of patterns down to three, taking into consideration the variety of techniques they might fall subject to. All of them are gridded patterns, which generally makes them easier to convert to other media. All of them are bands, with repeating motifs.

Participants are asked to do ONE 6” band if they are doing embroidery forms. Otherwise, please consider the equivalent size for your choice of media.
You may find that using graph paper is helpful. If you don’t have any, just google “free graph paper to print” and you’ll find a wide variety to suit your needs.

By “converting a pattern,” I mean that you might look at a pattern and think it’s pretty obvious what it was intended as, such as cross stitch being the intent but you decide to convert it to beadwork. Or blackwork.  Or painted stuff. Any method found in the Guild’s Guidelines is up for grabs.

This project asks that you complete one band. If you want to do more, go forth and party on!

I was originally thinking the we could vote on one pattern, but decided that a little diversity might be better for Reasons.

THE PATTERNS
Hearts. From Sibmacher’s Modelbuch, 1597, Plate XXXIII.

Flowers & Fruit (center pattern only). See Flowers of the Needle, Vol. VI. La Vera Perfettione del Designo by Ostaus, 1561, plate LXV

Dragon Puppies. See Flowers of the. Needle, Vol. V. Opera Nova Universali, 1546, pg 33

Please give this group a shout out if you are participating. We look forward to seeing and hearing about your creations!

In service to the arts,
Arlys o Gordon, OL, OP

Cynthia Ley (arlys) From the Rivers Guildmistress, who posts as Kim Switzer: In case it helps you decide what technique you want to work in, here is our Guild information. Forms of embellishment are listed at the bottom: https://lookaside.fbsbx.com/…/Embellishers_Guild…

And the list of embellishment types on our website: https://lookaside.fbsbx.com/…/Embellishers_Guild…

If you are interested in joining the Embellishers Guild, check out our fb page.Where else can you find a group whose motto is: “It needs a little something”?

I may get to Dragon Puppies. I think the pattern is hilarious. 🙂

For clarity, the names of the patterns were very arbitrarily given to them by yours truly. Sounds more interesting than Pattern 33.

Herb Bunch – Watering/Tending – Pix this coming week.

Saturday Projects – Anja tried to get into the Bayeaux Tapestry Stitch class at 10 and didn’t have the right equipment. She did manage to sign in to the Sewing Salon, but it wasn’t the Virtual Coronet one and she didn’t realize until Sunday…. Taran’s Pad Stitching was interesting.

Project Day – Was pretty much just catching up on pictures, sorting and putting away supplies. As Loren and Anja are cleaning their shop we’re finding a lot of projects that need finishing.

That’s the case with the pins above.

We got some pix of other pieces of projects.

From the Virtual Coronet

Classes!

Miscellaneous pix

 

Music

Hmmm can’t get this one to load -Come again sweet love (#SCAatHome 2020) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEmg3msuTZE&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR3IoKMf3cGQBv5TfWCEEmD0Yo3nEWwmcCJkRm9TdRrn-APGODMBIvoYUCU

Virtual Concert – Wolgemut – Music starts around 7 minutes in. There’s a really fun song at about 24.

Meredith Waldron – March 26 at 8:54 PM

At the request of Helen South…

Easy period music to learn (from BEFORE the sixteenth century)

In the sixteenth century, the increasing availability of printed texts saw a massive expansion of popularly accessible sheet music, and this is reflected in the sources available to us. But that doesn’t mean that pre-sixteenth century music isn’t around.

Collections:

  • The Red Book of Montserrat/Llibre Vermell de Montserrat (14th c, Spanish): a collection of ten devotional songs for pilgrims in one, two, and three parts, set to what are believed to be popular secular tunes. Sheet music available at https://imslp.org/wiki/File:WIMA.0077-LlibreVermell.pdf
  • Cantigas de Santa Maria (13th c, Spanish): a collection of hundreds of devotional songs collated by King Alfonso X. You can browse transcriptions of the full collection at http://www.cantigasdesantamaria.com/, but be aware they mostly have minimal rhythm marks. Individual songs have become quite well known, such as ‘Santa Maria strela do dia’ – sheet music (with rhythm marked) is available at https://imslp.org/…/File:WIMA.d58c-Sabio_Santa-Maria-strela…
  • Medieval Melodies for Filking (12th-15thc, various): an SCA collection of thirteen period tunes, by Vladislav the Purple. As the collection was designed to facilitate filk, all are solo and none have words (but the lyrics are google-able for non-instrumentalists). An extremely accessible introduction to medieval music for the instrumentalist, it is available at http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/vladislav/filk/

Additional Two-Part Songs:

The following four songs are a bit longer and more challenging, and have two parts – so if you’d like to work on singing or playing with someone else, they may be a good fit. The top line is also capable of standing on its own.

There is a great deal more medieval music available online – www.imslp.org and www.cpdl.org are both great places to start and have ‘medieval’ as a category – but if anyone is looking for pre-curated collections, I can also recommend the books sold by Gaita, a medieval music ensemble, which you can order online at http://www.gaita.co.uk/publications.html

Links

Cookery Videos

A story in two parts

Funnies 

Anja, Loren, Susanne, Amor (v), Sasha (v), Estella (v), Arlys (v)

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

  • ASXLVII = 24
  • ASXLVIII = 88
  • ASXLIX = 794
  • ASL = 2138
  • ASLI = 731
  • ASLII = 304
  • ASLIII – 146
  • ASLIV – 207 plus 4 puppets, 3 hippocras mix, 4 powder fort, 9 cheese spice and 10 powder douce packets, 10 tiny bobs, 8 pincushions, 5 pins, 5 snip case w/snips, lucet cords, 25 pouches for block-printing, 1 medium pouch, 4 small pouches, 12 bookmarkers, 14 unfinished pincushions, 1 sewing kit (except for bone needle), varnished stuff (124)

Total as a Household = 4038 handed off

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Activities through 3-22-20

House Capuchin Shield2Pandemic… who’d’a thunk it?

Things are going in the virtual realm. Well, that’s where they are being communicated, even if they happen in the real world.

  • Herb Bunch – At Ancient Light, Saturdays, 11am-1pm (on hold)
  • Sewing Time – At Ancient Light, Saturdays, 3-5pm (on hold)
  • Project Day – At Ancient Light, Sundays, Noon to 6pm (virtual only)
  • Cheese and Wine happens irregularly, usually announced with little notice on our Facebook group. (on hold)
  • Next Virtual Potluck – 4/19, 5/17
  • Next Winter Feast tentative Date is 2/15/21, Theme ??

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/

Estella says, “My tiny new baby grandson, born a month early, which seems like a good thing. He’s home and Mom, Dad, and Baby are happy and healthy. Their first child, my first grandchild. My daughter and her wonderful husband had both already set up working from home a few months ago.
I tye-dyed the infant hat, the size of my outstretched hand, during tye-dye sessions at my house about 25 years ago. I knew there was a reason to hold onto it. Baby’s Mom may have been in on some of those sessions as a kid, LOL!
You may address me as Granny Blue.

The shelves

Early Week – Anja and Loren are re-setting their shop, preparing for tourist season…. which will hopefully happen…eventually. In the process the section of historical re-creation stuff for sale has gone away, spread out around the shop, but those shelves are going to become project and largess places, so we can keep that under better control. That area is where we already put the House Capuchin library, in any case.

Cookery – 

Radish spread – No, this isn’t period, although it’s possible, but it’s delicious!

Anja says, ” I’ve been craving more of the radish and cheese spread. I had meant to do a tvarog to try it with, but I used that, already. So, cream cheese, and I had one of the ones that had frozen and were very crumbly. I overdid it on the garlic, using 2 cloves instead of the chives that are only just really getting going after being cut for the feast. ….but can there be too much garlic? …especially in a time of illness…. 🙂 I taste-tested with the last caraway rye roll. Dang that’s good!”

So, pies. We ate the trial ones without thinking about it, so here’s a full set, ending up with two peach pies….

Later in the week a beef stew and some other things were created.

Sewing – A bunch of mundane sewing happened during the week including the shop curtains, which needed to be hemmed, and masks, which are starting to be asked for. The grandbaby needed a few toys, as well. Some feast gear bags got made, plus a few pouches for the largesse pile. The footstool cover is progressing and so is that cuff, which is just a few stitches from being done.

…and finished stuff on Sunday.

Sundials, etc. – Wood toys

Wooden toys in various stages of sanding/finishing.

Herb Bunch – Things are at 6’s and 7’s with the chaos coming out of the pandemic, but plant tending goes right on. We set up some small pots to makes starts of that geranium that throws runners.

Project Day In the Virtual Realm

Arlys says, “I can’t show anything! I spent last night ripping out an embroidery bit from fabric, and I doubt if anyone finds naked Aida cloth exciting!

Peggy Vlach My first try at German brickstitch. DMC floss (3 strands) on 32 count linen. (a purse) 

Isabeau’s projects

Miscellaneous pix

Music – This should be a link to the whole list…. Some of these are 17th century, like the first one. Still pretty cool.

 

Links

Funnies 

Loren, Anja, Isabeau (v), Arlys (v), Peggy (v), Sasha (v)

divider black grey greek key

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

  • ASXLVII = 24
  • ASXLVIII = 88
  • ASXLIX = 794
  • ASL = 2138
  • ASLI = 731
  • ASLII = 304
  • ASLIII – 146
  • ASLIV – 207 plus 2 puppets, 3 hippocras mix, 4 powder fort packets, several cheese spice and powder douce packets, 8 tiny bobs, 9 pincushions, 3 snip case w/snips, lucet cords, 25 pouches for block-printing, 1 medium pouch, 4 small pouches, 12 bookmarkers, 14 unfinished pincushions, 1 sewing kit (except for bone needle), varnished stuff (124)

Total as a Household = 4038 handed off

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Activities through 3-15-20 Virtual Potluck

House Capuchin Shield2Plague stalks the inhabitants of the Summits and An Tir. All meetings and events were cancelled for the month of March as of Tuesday and for the Kingdom, and then through May10 on Monday. We had already been talking about a virtual potluck, so we went ahead and announced it to the principality. You can see the results below.

Snack plate, all pickles

Here’s hoping you all stay safe and well, friends!

Herbs is going to a “virtual” meeting for the next few weeks. Stop at the shop to pick up a bag with a project and then drop it back off. Sewing is just stopped for the next while. Project Day is virtual.

Projects will keep happening, if only in the virtual realm. If you get bored send us some project pix, or food pix, or what’s growing around you. We also have a rose mead to bottle and some cheese to make, puppets to work on and more such things.

  • Blomenschir (blancmange) and a piece of the pancake (This was Saturday’s supper.)

    Herb Bunch – At Ancient Light, Saturdays, 11am-1pm

  • Sewing Time – At Ancient Light, Saturdays, 3-5pm
  • 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
  • Next Winter Feast tentative Date is 2/15/21, Theme ??

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/

The glorious work of Tom Betts and Raffi Thomas😂

Here are some of the major pandemics that have occurred over time:
Name Time period Type / Pre-human host Death toll
Antonine Plague 165-180 Believed to be either smallpox or measles 5M
Japanese smallpox epidemic 735-737 Variola major virus 1M
Plague of Justinian 541-542 Yersinia pestis bacteria / Rats, fleas 30-50M
Black Death 1347-1351 Yersinia pestis bacteria / Rats, fleas 200M
New World Smallpox Outbreak 1520 – onwards Variola major virus 56M
Great Plague of London 1665 Yersinia pestis bacteria / Rats, fleas 100,000
Italian plague 1629-1631 Yersinia pestis bacteria / Rats, fleas 1M
Cholera Pandemics 1-6 1817-1923 V. cholerae bacteria 1M+
Third Plague 1885 Yersinia pestis bacteria / Rats, fleas 12M (China and India)
Yellow Fever Late 1800s Virus / Mosquitoes 100,000-150,000 (U.S.)
Russian Flu 1889-1890 Believed to be H2N2 (avian origin) 1M
Spanish Flu 1918-1919 H1N1 virus / Pigs 40-50M
Asian Flu 1957-1958 H2N2 virus 1.1M
Hong Kong Flu 1968-1970 H3N2 virus 1M
HIV/AIDS 1981-present Virus / Chimpanzees 25-35M
Swine Flu 2009-2010 H1N1 virus / Pigs 200,000
SARS 2002-2003 Coronavirus / Bats, Civets 770
Ebola 2014-2016 Ebolavirus / Wild animals 11,000
MERS 2015-Present Coronavirus / Bats, camels 850
COVID-19 2019-Present Coronavirus – Unknown (possibly pangolins) 4,700 (as of Mar 12, 2020)
Note: Many of the death toll numbers listed above are best estimates based on available research. Some, such as the Plague of Justinian, are subject to debate based on new evidence.

Early Week – We started the week with sorting out things from the Field Trip. Bay leaves, planting the chamomile, figuring out what I did with the bay nuts so they could be roasted and ground.

Bay leaves strung to dry

Cookery – I had a lot of bay to deal with! The leaves from the last batch were dry, so they were ground and the perfect leaves fitted into a bottle. New batch leaves had to be plucked from the stems: sorting into wash, damaged or perfect. The perfect ones needed to be strung, and the others put in a basket to dry.

Roasting the bay nuts took a little research. Apparently there’s some disagreement about the temp and time to roast them, so we picked the conservative one. We’ll be baking ’em at 350 for 90 minutes, but haven’t found the time, yet.

Started the chicken for a chicken pie on Tuesday evening and got it picked over in the morning. The ground pork got cooked Saturday evening and drained and put by for Sunday’s pie. …and then those took forever and didn’t get made until late Sunday (finished pix will follow)

Friday night we had řizky for supper (Czech version of chicken schnitzel) and then I started a blancmange.

řizky

A pancake of the leftover crumbs, egg and flour had to add an egg to make it “dough”.

…and the Blomenschir/blancmange that ended up as Saturday night’s supper.

…and a tvarog got started Saturday afternoon and finished on Sunday. We divided one batch in 1/2 and did 1/2 with cheese salt and the other 12/ with honey and nutmeg.

On Sunday Anja started pulling out pickles and things and getting pictures. …and butters/spreads and getting pictures…and then we ate, and ran out of energy to finish….

Sewing – Anja got pictures and started making labels/cards for the pieces she had worked on last week. Worked on the cuffband. Not as much time this week!

Virtual Realm – Isabeau – SCA sewing happening here… Vanguards and kilts, hand-sewn pleats.

Lisette Levine

Working on some weaving… but it was interrupted by Miss Kissa deciding she needed a nap 😻

Herb Bunch – The chamomile got planted and taken outside. The extra bay seedling went to Rayna. Bay leaves were finished on Saturday. Houseleeks were taken outside to grow over the summer. Tarragon and chive seedlings need to be re-potted along with a couple of jade plants.

Project Day – …was all cooking….

Potluck – We didn’t get to do much, since we’re still catching up with finding/washing things since the feast! …but we did manage to “plate” some things and eventually do the pies, but the pix on those are going to have to wait. We ate them before we thought!. Loren and I were pretty stuffed and that was with no lunch, but snacking all afternoon!

…and the Virtual potluck 

Plum chutney stuffed breaded pork medallions with chipotle avocado slaw… and more chutney ☺️

<<< Lisette Levine – Her comment was “This was fun! It was a treat plating a pretty lunch to ‘share’. ☺️

Alys says, >>> “Doug’s beef stew, crusty you-bake bread (not *quite* as good as homemade, but close!), and a glass of 2 Towns Hard Cider. Yum!” and “Didn’t use the Poudre Douce(?) for tonight’s dinner; that was Doug’s recipe. It was DELICIOUS: hot &amp; meaty &amp; just enough liquid that I could just dip the bread &amp; not even need butter. NomNomNom!!!”

Stella Blue I made cabbage rolls. I… “borrowed” a handful of rice from the master’s kitchen, reached through my fitchet, and thus did secret this rare treat in my aumônière. A few bits of chicken, an onion end from an onion given to Master as rent from one of his tenants, and a few shreds of cheddar all rolled into a soft cabbage leaf and baked with a red sauce.

Robin Nicole Just started the sweet potatoes for a multi layered casserole dish. Need to brown about 2# of ground turkey too. I’m cooking for the freezer too. 😀 It’s full of veges, some nuts and figs too. All for the most finicky of palates.🐶

Potluck Menu

Nibbling course

  • White bean pickles (made earlier)
  • Pickled asparagus (made earlier)
  • black olive (puchased)
  • green olives (puchased)
  • pickled beets (puchased)
  • Pickled brussels sprouts (puchased)
  • Mixed vegetable pickles (made earlier)
  • Bacon blue butter (made earlier)
  • Garlic butter (made earlier)
  • Roasted Garlic butter (made earlier)
  • Bread rolls (made earlier)
  • Goat’s milk chevre (puchased)
  • scalded milk cheese (made earlier)
  • Tvarog (Sunday, Anja and Loren)

Main Course

  • Leftovers soup (made earlier)
  • Cabbage rolls (Stella)
  • Beef Stew (Alys and family)
  • Sweet potato casserole (Louisa)
  • řizky (Friday night, Anja & Loren)
  • Chicken and pork pie (Sunday, Anja and Loren)
  • Blomenschir/blancmange (Saturday, Anja & Loren)
  • Lentil pottage (from 3/17/19 Anja and Loren)
  • Sauerkraut (Sunday, Anja and Loren)

Sweets course

  • Marzipan (Sunday, Anja and Loren)
  • Sugar-Preserved Strawberries
  • Comfits

Recipes

RECIPE FOR BASIC MEDIEVAL/RENAISSANCE MEAT PIE – from Gode Cookery

  • 1 ½ lbs. meat (beef, pork, venison, rabbit, poultry, etc. or any combination), parboiled and in small chunks, ground, or mashed
  • 1 9″ pie shell (lid optional)
  • cooked chicken pieces (wings, thighs, etc.) (optional)
  • 4 egg yolks
  • ½ to 1 cup meat broth (quantity depends on the dryness of the other ingredients – use your discretion. The final mixture should be on the wet side.)
  • splash of red or white wine
  • 1 to 2 cups TOTAL of any of the following, separate or in combination: minced dates, currants, raisins, minced figs, ground nuts (almonds, walnuts, etc.), grated cheese, etc. The variety of ingredients & the total amount used depends on personal taste.
  • ¼ tsp. salt
  • ¼ tsp. pepper
  • 1 – 2 Tbs. TOTAL of any of the following spices, separate or in combination: ginger, allspice, cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, cardamom, cubebs, galingale, etc. The variety of spices & the total amount used depends on personal taste.

Mix well all ingredients except chicken. Place in pie shell and top with either a pastry lid or the cooked chicken pieces. Bake in a 350° F oven for 45 minutes to an hour, or until the pastry is golden brown and the filling set. Serve hot or cold. Serves 6-8.

Blomenschir (blancmange) and a piece of the pancake (This was Saturday’s supper.)

Blomenschir (blancmange) – Anja’s version

  • 1 cup of almond flour
  • salt
  • 4 cups water
  • 4 boneless skinless chicken breast
  • 1 cup of rice
  • ¼ cup sugar
  • Splash rosewater
  • Nutmeg

Method

  1. Put chicken pieces in a large crockpot and turn it on high.
  2. Pour almond flour over the chicken, then water.
  3. Add a sprinkling of salt.
  4. Cook until chicken is done, 4-5 hours. You can cut it up at the half-way point to make it cook faster.
  5. Pull the chicken out, and fridge, returning liquid to pot.
  6. Turn the crockpot to low.
  7. Add rice to the liquid in the crockpot.
  8. Cook until rice is past the crunchy point, at least 2 hours.
  9. Add sugar, rosewater, and a sprinkling of freshly ground nutmeg.
  10. Stir well and cook for 20 minutes. If there is too much liquid (this should be the consistency of thick oatmeal.) measure how much extra and then add some minute rice or rice flour. You could even stir in more almond flour.
  11. Dice chicken and add back in. Turn back to high.
  12. Stir well.
  13. The dish should be thoroughly heated in about 20 minutes and then will “hold” for another 2 hours on low.
  14. This may be frozen and re-heated in a microwave. To prevent toughness in the re-heating, freeze in smaller (2-cup or less) portions.

Miscellaneous pix

Music – AncientFM this week! 

Links

Funnies 

Anja, Loren, Estella (v), Gogor (v), Louisa (v), Isabeau (v), Daniel (v), Gudrun (v), Brandon (v), Alys (v)

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

  • ASXLVII = 24
  • ASXLVIII = 88
  • ASXLIX = 794
  • ASL = 2138
  • ASLI = 731
  • ASLII = 304
  • ASLIII – 146
  • ASLIV – 207 plus 2 puppets, 3 hippocras mix, 4 powder fort packets, several cheese spice and powder douce packets, 8 tiny bobs, 9 pincushions, 2 snip case w/snips, one without, lucet cords, 25 pouches for block-printing, 1 medium pouch, 4 small pouches, 12 bookmarkers, 14 unfinished pincushions, 1 sewing kit (except for bone needle), varnished stuff (124)

Total as a Household = 4038 handed off

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Activities through 3-8-20 KA&S

House Capuchin Shield2All Hail Eleanor and Iurii, new Champions of An Tir!

With all the illness in the community we’re talking about doing a “virtual potluck” this coming week.

This was a different week. With Anja still sick in the early part of the week, she was mostly sewing. The

Assorted small projects

Saturday workshops didn’t happen, but that was mostly because of the Herb Bunch field trip on Sunday.

There are lots of pix and links below and a good set of funnies!

We’re talking about meetings being on time this week, but they could be cancelled at the last moment because of illness. Call ahead!

  • Herb Bunch – At Ancient Light, Saturdays, 11am-1pm
  • Sorrel

    Sewing Time – At Ancient Light, Saturdays, 3-5pm

  • 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
  • Next Winter Feast tentative Date is 2/15/21, Theme ??

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/

Kingdom Arts & Sciences – Pride of the Summits!

Early Week– We got more of the equipment cleaned up and put away. Anja was still down, so she did mostly handwork.

Cookery – Mostly was eating leftovers. We used one of the leftover girdle cake kits for supper one night.

Sewing – While Anja was still down sick and lot of small projects happened, 90% of them mundane.

Herb Bunch – During the week it was all tending/watering and id-ing some that need to be re-potted. The workshop was cancelled on Saturday in exchange for the field trip on Sunday!

Herb Bunch Field Trip – Anja’s take

Plant along the highway. Need ID

Three of us headed for Marion’s at about 10 am. The weather was lovely on the coast, sunny and cool, but not too chilly. The views of the ocean and forest were lovely and even after we turned the corner at Florence, the sunshine on moss and fern and tree kept us pointing at things and saying, “Oh, look!”.

We took a long side trip, thanks to Google, through the Fern Ridge Wildlife refuge, but got back on track, only having to round the block once to find a place to park.

Marian was baking and her house smelled wonderful, as usual. (quince cookies) As soon as her cookies were done, we headed out to the garden. She gave us a tour and told the story of how the bamboo grove came to be.

Marion harvesting by the sage and thyme

After we had done a round once, she invited us to harvest and dig what we wanted. I ended up with an armful of bay, a pocketful of bay nuts, a stick of *large* bamboo and a chamomile plant. I’m pretty sure that Linda and Susanne each had a bay seedling, some chamomile and other things.

After that we done we went in and had some tea and then headed out for lunch. We went to the New Day Bakery which has some amazing food (and went around the block to find parking). They do breakfast, lunch and dinner. Ambrose had a rice and bean dish. Marian had coffee and a mondo bear claw. Linda had soup and coffee. Susanne had coffee and a patty melt. I had a turkey and carrot relish sandwich and hibiscus lemonade. Mine we delicious and everyone else said the same of theirs. I thought about getting some bread to take home, but decided not. …and looked up carrot relish when I got home, since I enjoyed it so much!

Ground covers

After that we went to Mountain Rose Herbs which was just a few blocks away. (…and went around the block to find it… 🙂 )I got some linden for the shop and cocoa nibs for me. Linda found a rose geranium hydrosol. I needed to sit, so went out to an outside bench. Linda and Susanne took off across the parking to Down to Earth and came back with plants that we’re going to trade around. (calendula, motherwort, feverfew) Marian came out and we sat and talked about what I do with herbs and what she does until she needed to head for the bus and we headed home.

Sorrel, etc.

I fell asleep as we were heading onto 126 and woke just as we were rolling in to Florence. We gassed up and rolled on back to Waldport, still chatting about the day. We offloaded my stuff and they headed home. Fun day!

Project Day – Nothing for pictures. Mostly sanding happened. There’s a bowl in process….

Music

Links

Funnies 

Loren, Anja, Herb Bunch (3)

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

  • ASXLVII = 24
  • ASXLVIII = 88
  • ASXLIX = 794
  • ASL = 2138
  • ASLI = 731
  • ASLII = 304
  • ASLIII – 146
  • ASLIV – 207 plus 2 puppets, 3 hippocras mix, 4 powder fort packets, several cheese spice and powder douce packets, 8 tiny bobs, 9 pincushions, 2 snip case w/snips, one without, lucet cords, 25 pouches for block-printing, 1 medium pouch, 4 small pouches, 12 bookmarkers, 14 unfinished pincushions, 1 sewing kit (except for bone needle), varnished stuff (124)

Total as a Household = 4038 handed off

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Activities through 3-1-20

House Capuchin Shield2Leftovers went into Care Packages and out, early in the week, and reviews are coming back from the folks that couldn’t make it to the feast. More pix came in and at least one donation.

Anja went down sick after being coughed all over at the feast at one point. Loren’s worried enough about it that the weekend’s workshops and Project Day didn’t happen.

Cuff progress

The feast report went out. The page is in process along with the cookbook. We’re getting there, but again, everything stopped on Friday.

By next weekend things should have sorted out, so we’re assuming the workshops will happen on time, but no Cheese and Wine this week.

  • Herb Bunch – At Ancient Light, Saturdays, 11am-1pm
  • Sewing Time – At Ancient Light, Saturdays, 3-5pm
  • Pincushions and bobs

    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
  • Next Winter Feast tentative Date is 2/14/21, Theme ??

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/

Amy’s Feast pix

Early Week

– Care Packages went out on Tuesday. Other than that we were putting leftovers and gear away and washing dishes….lots of them. The Feast report went out on Wednesday, so next up is Cookbook and then finishing up the Feast pages.

Cookery – A lot of the leftovers went into a soup on Monday. On Friday we made another soup for folks that can’t have pork, from blanched leeks, dried mushrooms, beef broth and a miscellaneous frozen vegetable that had a little bit of everything in it. Bieroks were supper on Saturday, onion pies on Sunday, plus some pea and oat girdle cakes.

Sewing – Was pretty much the same projects: footstool cover, cuff and small bobs, but a couple of bits of mending happened, as well, and finishing off some bags for feast gear, a small organizer and a few pincushions. No Workshop.

Embroidery

Sewing

Herb Bunch – No workshop this week. Everything was tending, watering and shifting some plants to where they get more light.

Project Day – Cancelled due to illness.

Music

Links

Funnies 

Loren, Anja, Louisa(v), Isabeau(v), Daniel(v), Estella

divider black grey greek key

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

  • ASXLVII = 24
  • ASXLVIII = 88
  • ASXLIX = 794
  • ASL = 2138
  • ASLI = 731
  • ASLII = 304
  • ASLIII – 146
  • ASLIV – 207 plus 2 puppets, 3 hippocras mix, 4 powder fort packets, several cheese spice and powder douce packets, 8 tiny bobs, 3 pincushions, 1 snip case w/snips, lucet cords, 25 pouches for block-printing, 1 medium pouch, 4 small pouches, 12 bookmarkers, 14 unfinished pincushions, 1 sewing kit (except for bone needle), varnished stuff (124)

Total as a Household = 4038 handed off

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Last updated 3/2/20

 

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