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Winter Feast Report 2-22 to 2-24-20

House Capuchin Shield2House Capuchin throws a good feast! Lots of pix below with videos yet to come (and there were several) Those will appear on the Winter Feast page, but probably not here.

We’re already talking about next year’s feast!

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/

Photographers below are labeled:

  • Jam for James
  • Isb for Isabeau
  • Anj for Anja

Saturday Morning, early – Frantic consults among the cooks to make sure stuff got to Waldport, and to the cooking site. 🙂 Coleman came down with a cold, so couldn’t make it, though. 😦

It took two full hours to pack the stuff for the cooking!

The mess – Anj

Saturday Day – James and Anja started with some of the vegetable dishes, peeling and chopping and boiling. Cucummern, then root veg, then kaltes kraut took a bit. Onion pies were next and James did most of the work on those, once Anja showed him how to use the equipment. Anja made batters and doughs, starting with two batches of seed cakes, a pie dough (1/4 box batch) and finally shortbreads after Isabeau arrived. As the day went on, we all tried our hands at the marzipan chess sets, getting 3 colors (one side apiece) of pieces done. Isabeau actually was the one doing the shortbread as James finished up on the onion pies, since Anja was kinda fried, by then. During the day a whole bunch of smaller bits got done and put by. We cleaned up and headed back out around 7pm.

Veg

Pies

Seedcakes

Chess Set

Spaetzle – At one point James touched the edge of the boiling pot and a whole spoonful took flying lessons…. It was amazing. We giggled over it for quite awhile. No, he wasn’t hurt.

Saturday evening – Anja was exhausted, so after sitting and chatting with Louisa and Isabeau, and watching Min’s antics she conked out. When she woke, Loren was working on the caraway rye. She worked on the cookbook, which was *still* not done! That got printed around 1 and we all went to bed.

Now, this is not the final cookbook, only the working one for the feast! The good one will go up in a week or so.

Cookbook 2020 – Word

Cookbook 2020 – PDF

Ocean Pix

Sunday Morning – Frantically fried ‘crat was on the menu….. We had been supposed to get the key on Friday… and didn’t. …but we got it in time to get going about 10 minutes past Anja’s schedule.

Stuff got sorted around and various dishes started. James got there and we started setting up the hall….although the lights never got set out. We got a mulled cider going and put together the beginnings of the daytime snacks.

At about 11, the various snacks started being set out, although James had to be reminded to keep going with those. He made flags for many of the flavors.

Cooks/Staff

Sunday Afternoon Snacks – We had mulled cider, lemon water and mint iced tea to drink.

Butters & Breads

  • Breads – Regular, dark rye pumpernickel, rye caraway
  • Butters – Dill onion, Roasted garlic, Raw garlic, Bacon Blue, Honey Butter

Snacks

  • Pickles – Bean, Mushroom, Asparagus, Eggs, beet
  • cheese spreads – tvarog, honey/nutmeg, tvarog, shallots and salt, sweet almond, savory almond

Hot Snacks

1pm Hot dish – Girdle Cakes,  Cereal and Legume Girdle Breads of:

  • wheat, pea flour
  • barley, pea flour
  • oat flour, pea flour
  • wheat, chickpea flour
  • barley, chickpea flour
  • oat flour, chickpea flour

3pm hot dish – Ein Spise von Birn – Stuffed French toast with pear filling

Sunday afternoon – Right at noon people started arriving. We had 20 people there over the course of the whole day, some coming early and staying right through, some coming late and leaving before the feast, and variations on the theme!

Lots of people brought projects of various types. Anja even got a few stitches into her embroidery.

The bard in the box kept music going earlier in the day and after both Stella and Wilhelm arrived they kept things rocking.

Stella and Wilhelm

We had some stories during the day and late in the afternoon Anja did a talk about the research on the feast.

Sunday Feast

People

Serving

Foods

Soup Course – Somehow, not a single pic of these!

  • Leek – Anja’s version of the Leek soup for a Fat Day
  • Aptel suppe
  • Chicken/Barley/Mushroom – Quick Chicken and Mushroom soup

Main Course

  • 5:50 – Main course – Pork Roast w/spaetzel, onion sauce, cherry sauce, apple compote, Spätzle and hot kraut
  • 6:10 – Main course – Lemon Chicken w carrots & parsnips in butter sauce and kaldes kraut
  • 6:30pm – Main course – Schnitzel (pork/veal/chicken) with Cucummern, Beet Sauce, Jager Gravy
  • 6:50 – Main course – Bieroks and onion pie with mustards

Subtleties – Marzipan and Meringue mushrooms, Marzipan and shortbread chess set.

Sweets Course 

  • Basic Marzipan – vanilla, cocoa and saunders
  • Cookies – Lebkuchen. Pfeffernusse, Ginger nuts – GINGER NUTS, Shrewsbury Cakes, 1 2 3 4 Shortbread
  • Cakes/Tarts – Louisa’s pear and plum tarts, Seed cakes
  • Tiny cups – Sugar-Preserved Strawberries, Fig pudding with cream, Pear pudding

Cleanup – ….and we cleared the hall by midnight!

Foods

Day Menu

Breads

  • Regular
  • Dark rye pumpernickel
  • Rye caraway

Butters

  • Dill onion
  • Roasted garlic
  • Raw garlic
  • Bacon Blue
  • Honey Butter

Pickles

  • Bean
  • Mushroom
  • Asparagus
  • Eggs
  • beet

cheese spreads

  • tvarog, honey/nutmeg
  • tvargo, shallots and salt
  • sweet almond
  • savory almond

1pm Hot dish – Girdle Cakes (James) Cereal and Legume Girdle Breads

  • wheat, pea flour
  • barley, pea flour
  • oat flour, pea flour
  • wheat, chickpea flour
  • barley, chickpea flour
  • oat flour, chickpea flour

3pm hot dish – French toast with pear filling(Louisa)

Feast Menu

5:30 pm soups

  • Leek – Anja’s version of the Leek soup for a Fat Day
  • Aptel suppe
  • Chicken/Barley/Mushroom – Quick Chicken and Mushroom soup

5:50 – Main course – Pork Roast w/spaetzel, cherry sauce, apple compote and hot kraut

  • Pork Roast– Recipes from descriptions and Le Viandier
  • Onion sauce
  • Cherry sauce
  • Apple compote
  • Spätzle – (traditional German) 
  • How To Make Sauerkraut | Easy And Homemade – Easy to make homemade sauerkraut. (served hot)

6:10 – Main course – Lemon Chicken w carrots & parsnips in butter sauce and kaldes kraut

6:30pm – Main course – Weiner schnitzel (pork/veal/chicken) with cucumber salad

  • Authentic Wiener Schnitzel Recipe – By Jennifer McGavin – Updated 06/03/19 –
  • Cucummern – Cucumber Salad – Rumpoldt
  • Beet Sauce (redacted from Rumpolt)

6:50 – Main course – Bieroks and onion pie with mustards. 

  • Bierok (Runza)
  • Pear Mustard (Spicy German pear/wine)
  • Onion pie

7:10 –Sweets 

Mushrooms – Marzipan and Meringue

Chess sets – subtlety

  • Basic Marzipan – vanilla,cocoa and saunders
  • Shortbread – Chess boards and cookies – cocoa powder added to chess board “black” squares
  • 1, 2, 3, 4 Shortbread – recipe by Anja –

*** – Cookie

  • Lebkuchen –
  • Pfeffernusse
  • Ginger nuts – GINGER NUTS
  • Shrewsbury Cakes

*** Cake/Tart

  • Louisa’s pear and plum tarts
  • Seed cakes

*** – Tiny cups

  • Sugar-Preserved Strawberries
  • Fig pudding
  • Pear pudding

Min, Madelen, Alys, Jalida, Marion, Rafny, Estella, Aesa, Wilhelm, Loren, Amy, Joy and husband, Isabeau, James (3), Louisa, Anja, Coleman (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 – 185+16+6=207 plus 2 puppets, 3 hippocras mix, 4 powder fort packets, several cheese spice and powder douce 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 = 4038 handed off

moving writing pen motifIn ministerio autem Somnium! Anja, graeca doctrina servus to House Capuchin
Page Created 2/22/20 & published ?/??/20 (C)M. Bartlett
Last updated 2/27/20

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Winter Feast Report 2-22 to 2-24-20 extra!

We planned on the report being done by now. I’m only just getting pictures from folks! So…. it’s going to be delayed….

In ministerium autem Somnio!
Anja Snihova’, graeca doctrina servus to House Capuchin.

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Activities through 2-21-20

Short week and a short report because Saturday/Sunday is our Winter Feast! There probably won’t be the usual links and things in the next report….which probably won’t publish until Tuesday or Wednesday.

Saturday is cooking day and Sunday is the feast! Monday will be our usual Cook’s Brunch off the leftovers and then the next report will come out.

  • 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
  • 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 – More breads, candies are ready. Gonna cook all day Saturday and eat on Sunday!

Early Week – Baking started the week.

Cookery – Monday was breads…pies, or at least the filling. Breads, Chicken and soup was Tuesday and Wednesday, and lemons for the feast chicken. Breads, Cheese spice and finding various soups and pieces and getting them together was Wednesday. During the rest of the week we were too nuts to take pictures or keep track! There are a few pix waiting to be developed.

Sewing – No pix, but cuffs and footstool cover were worked on.

Sundials, etc. – Set up a project box for the sanding of kitchen tools.

Herb Bunch – Other the using some harvested stuffs in the foods, this was all watering.

Music – Ancient FM

Links

Funnies 

Anja, Loren, James (v), Amor (v), Louisa (v), Isobel (v), Coleman (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 – 184+1=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

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Page Created 2/14/20 & published 2/22/20 (C)M. Bartlett
Last updated 2/22/20

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Activities through 2-16-20

House Capuchin Shield2Now, 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
Maple candy

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!

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.

The muddy bits need to be washed

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

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…)

Pretzels

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

Footstool cover

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.

Miscellaneous pix

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

Funnies 

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

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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 – 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

moving writing pen motifIn ministerio autem Somnium! Anja, graeca doctrina servus to House Capuchin
Page Created 2/1/20 & published ?/??/20 (C)M. Bartlett
Last updated 2/17/20

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Activities through 2-9-20

House Capuchin Shield2Wow… this week went fast! We’re prepping for the feast and that’s taking more and more….

Lots of cookery. Lots of tasty foodly things! Happy tummies!

If you didn’t get an invite to the House Capuchin Winter Feast and would like one, comment below! There are still some spots open!

Workshops and meetings are all on time this week, since Anja isn’t getting to go to Summits AS&B, after all. 😦

  • 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
  • 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 – Horseradish on Monday meant that shopping needed to happen, more than ever. The trip was planned for Tuesday, but didn’t happen until Thursday, although we picked up cheese ingredients and figs on Tuesday.

Early Week – On Monday the Horseradish guy came in with a whole bucket of roots. We have plenty for the beet and horseradish relish! I’m going to grate some up with vinegar and freeze it, so we’ll have some when we need it. (Happened on Sunday!)

Horseradish roots

Cookery – On Wednesday we started with prepping horseradish. The girdle cake kits got made. We did a batch of fig pudding and tasted it and it turned out great! We also set up a pear pudding to cook overnight.

That got finished on Thursday and put by about 1 1/2 pints of pudding and 1/2 a pint of liquid to go into cereals and the like.

Friday the tvarog got finished and other foods started. We were working on the beet/horseradish relish, but finally put it by to cook overnight.

…and it got most of the way put together on Saturday. We did discover that the hand grinder will not handle horseradish. We had to put it into the electric herb grinder!

On Sunday we ate up the last of the trial run fig pudding with cream. Wow! Yums!

Cheese and Wine Night – Happens only occasionally, but we needed to clear the carboy so’s to put it into storage. We also had a tvarog to finish.

The tvarog was set to culturing early on Thursday. ….right about the time that it was plain that Loren wasn’t going to get back in time for Wine. <sigh>

…and no one showed up, anyway, so when he got back, he offloaded, we put away the stuff that had to be done and headed back to Newport, leaving the cheese to finish cooking. (It was turned off and swathed in towels to hold the temp. That got finished on Friday and tasted on Saturday. Nutmeg and honey in tvarog turns out to be pretty darned good!

Sewing – Anja had gotten help figuring out that odd stitch on the one large UFO piece. Next thing was to start stitching. She’s also back to working on the footstool cover.

Herb Bunch – More things kept appearing during the week: tools, supplies, already bagged or jarred herbs. We got some dry stuff pulled down from the drying rack, too, most of which was usable and put away properly, but some was overly dry, so it went to compost. …and plants are getting tended…

Herbs workshop ended up being really short, mostly creating a bag of old stuff for composting.

Project Day – Anja spent the day working on the footstool cover. Loren had his sundials and sanding out, but didn’t get any photos.

Recipes

Pear pudding – Combined set of recipes

  • 6 Bartlett pears, as ripe as possible
  • 2 cups pinot grigio (sweet white wine)
  • ¼ tsp clove
  • 3 TBSP honey
  • 3 lebkuchen

Method

  1. Core and slice pears.
  2. Toss into crockpot with the rest of the ingredients and cook on low overnight, stirring occasionally. Let cool so it can be handled.
  3. Put a colander over a bowl and pour the pears in. Stir to let the liquid through.
  4. Put the solids in another bowl and stir in breads crumbs, 1/4 cup at a time. Let stand 15 minutes and stir before adding more. Ours took only 1/2 cup to get it to pudding consistency.
  5. Heat before serving. Add 1 TBSP butter per cup.

Fig pudding – Welserin

  • 1 cup wine
  • 2 3 inch cookies lebkuchen
  • Bread crumbs
  • Malt extract (opt)
  • Pinch Saffron
  • Almond crumbs (didn’t use)
  • 4 large Dried figs
  • Currents to fill up cup, maybe ¼ cup
  • Butter (forgot)
  1. Heat wine 2 minutes in microwave
  2. Add saffron to wine and let stand for 5 minutes.
  3. Add lebkuchen and let stand for ½ and hour. If the cookies don’t seem to be softening, pull them and chop up and toss back in.
  4. Take stems off figs and chop (I cut into ¼’s and cut cross-ways). Put into a one cup measure.
  5. Add currents to the one cup line. Shake and check level….
  6. Pour onto wine mixture and let stand for a bit.
  7. Put back in the microwave for 1 minute.
  8. Run through a food processor if still chunky.

43 To make a fig pudding

Put wine in a small pot, and when it begins to boil, then put in grated Lebkuchen and grated Semmel. Put saffron, almonds, raisins, figs and some fat into it.

Miscellaneous pix

Music

Links

Siblings and the Sexes within the Medieval Religious Life – https://www.medievalists.net/2020/01/siblings-and-the-sexes-within-the-medieval-religious-life/

Crusaders in the Red Sea: Renaud de Châtillon’s raids of AD 1182–83 – https://www.medievalists.net/2020/01/crusaders-in-the-red-sea-renaud-de-chatillons-raids-of-ad-1182-83/ Robert of Gloucester: The King’s Son Ascendant – https://www.medievalists.net/2020/02/robert-of-gloucester-the-kings-son-ascendant/

Yonec: A tale of courtly love – https://www.medievalists.net/2020/01/yonec-tale-courtly-love/

New and Updated Pages

Cordial – https://wp.me/P8ngGY-2lt

Funnies 

Anja, Loren, Amy (v), Louisa (v), Isabeau, (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 – 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

moving writing pen motifIn ministerio autem Somnium! Anja, graeca doctrina servus to House Capuchin
Page Created 2/3/20 & published 2/10/20 (C)M. Bartlett
Last updated 2/10/20

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Activities through 2-2-20

The big push of getting ready for the feast is eating everything but the Herbs Workshop, and it almost ate that this week! We’re looking at around 30 people this time, so if you haven’t contacted us yet to get on the list, please do, ASAP! Shopping is happening *tomorrow*!

In process

Other meetings will be on time this week. There will be a Cheese & Wine Thursday night.

  • 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
  • Winter Feast Date is 2/23/20, Theme German Renaissance
Saturday night’s supper – Part of the chicken that made the broth for soup and a lovely cole slaw

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 – Cookbook work all week. Getting closer. Reminders went out on Thursday.

Early Week – We started the week with cleanup, as usual, and baking.

Cookery – Lebkuchen and focaccia baked on Monday.

The focaccia didn’t come out right, so that got ground on Tuesday to dry for breadcrumbs. Tuesday was also a use-up-the-12th-Night-Cheese cooking effort (mostly got turned into lasagna) and then the 2nd batch of bierocks.

Wednesday was all cookbook up until 7pm, then the Feast Cooks meeting. Intense couple of hours, there.

Thursday – baked garlic for garlic butter and got that made and put by. Also, a honeybutter. Working on quick-drying breadcrumbs about a third of them took flying lessons and one batch scorched… <sigh> We’ve got about a quart.

Friday some shopping happened. Research on how to get a chunk of horseradish root happened, too. Turns out we have a local fellow…..

Saturday was chicken broth for the soup and mustard, spicy pear mustard. It’s darned near weaponized while you’re making it. My nose ran for an hour and *burned*! Made a radish and cream cheese spread after that, not period, but pretty, and intended for sandwiches. A 2nd batch of chicken broth happened.

Radish spread

Sunday was finally the bacon/blue butter. (above)

Sewing – no one showed for the workshop and Anja was working on the herbs from the morning.

Sundials, etc. – Progress on sanding…

The compounding station

Herb Bunch – Most of the week as pick-up-and-put-away, but on Saturday during the workshop time the 3 of us tore apart the compounding station. We bagged or jarred everything that wasn’t, combined duplicates, got rid of trash, and pulled all the things that needed to be washed out and got them put by. It took a couple of hours, but wow does it make a difference!

That’s the Herbs shelf at the back, and then l-r: a bowl of some herbs that need to be sorted (mostly cones and cedar sprigs) A box of jarred herbs with bagged ones on top, a box of miscellaneous empty jars.

Project Day – Was all on finding and cleaning dishes and utensils to make sure they’re ready for the feast. We’re not done, since the boxes will be pulled out and re-set…..

We also spent time making room in the freezers for more stuff….

None of that creates pictures!

Recipes

Pear Mustard – German Mustard (Spicy pear/wine) Makes 3 cups and a little over.

  • 1 can preserved pear halves
  • 1 cup ground yellow mustard
  • ¼ cup ground ginger
  • 1 TBSP salt
  • ½ cup sweet white wine (Pinot Grigio) (May need another ¼ cup)

Method

  1. Drain the pears, leaving as little juice as possible. (Save the juice for breakfast, or add to wine and reduce for a yummy syrup)
  2. Mash the pears.
  3. Zap for three minutes in the microwave.
  4. Add mustard and mash.
  5. Add ginger and mash.
  6. Add salt and mash.
  7. Zap for 2 minutes in the microwave.
  8. Add /1/4 cup wine and mash.
  9. Zap for 1 minute.
  10. Add /1/4 cup wine and mash, making sure that it’s mixed as well as you can. It’s going to be lumpy, that’s the pears, but they smooth out when it’s spread on something.
  11. Box and refrigerate at least overnight to let the flavors blend.
  12. You may freezer after that for up to a month.
  13. Before serving, let thaw overnight.
  14. 20 minutes before serving time, zap in a nuker for 3 minutes. Add ¼ cup of wine, if it’s too thick for what you need.

34 To make the mustard for dried cod – Welserin
Take mustard powder, stir into it good wine and pear preserves and put sugar into it, as much as you feel is good, and make it as thick as you prefer to eat it, then it is a good mustard.

Miscellaneous pix

Music – AncientFM this week! 

 

Links

Rome pilgrimage to the lost bones of the world’s first celebrity chef – https://writingroma.wordpress.com/2019/09/25/in-search-of-the-worlds-first-celebrity-chef/

Sanctuary with Shannon McSheffrey (podcast) – https://www.medievalists.net/2020/01/sanctuary-with-shannon-mcsheffrey/

Medieval Manuscripts: The Peterborough Psalter in Brussels – https://www.medievalists.net/2020/01/medieval-manuscripts-the-peterborough-psalter-in-brussels/

13-year-old discovers Byzantine burial inscription – https://www.medievalists.net/2020/01/13-year-old-discovers-byzantine-burial-inscription/

A History of the Wolf – https://www.historytoday.com/archive/natural-histories/history-wolf

Europe’s Oldest Intact Book Is Discovered Inside the Coffin of a Saint – https://mymodernmet.com/st-cuthbert-gospel-oldest-book/

Updated Pages – Winter Feast ASLIV

Funnies 

Viking Kittens!

Anja, Loren, Louisa (v), Isabeau (v), Daniel (v), Sasha (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 – 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

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Activities through 1-26-20

House Capuchin Shield2Some weeks are more productive than others. This week…. Some of the stuff that’s going on doesn’t create pictures, like the feast cookbook, but it’s going to be a big chunk of what we need for the feast.

Other projects are on-going, like the weekly Herbs workshop.

Cookery for the feast is going apace. This week mustard and other sauces, more cookies and starting the breads!

There are 3 cool article/display/picture things at the beginning of the report.

Little bindles all lined up

Meetings on time this week.

  • 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
  • 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/

SCA seasons – KELLY MELISSA PRIM·SUNDAY, JANUARY 19, 2020·on Facebook(used with permission)
I am fighting burnout. Fighting it hard. In the SCA, especially once you start hanging out around people who are not newbies you will start to hear the term burnout. This game is not a spectator sport, it is participation based and with anything that awards great participation, there is the potential for burnout. The problem with the term burnout is that it seems like an endpoint, and that just isn’t a good enough perspective for me. I finally determined that burnout a less positive term than season.
Seasons, unlike burnout, are not an endpoint but a point on a cycle. Whatever season you are in, another season is yet to come and what is annoying or all consuming on one day, will pass and change. In the SCA I think people probably go through seasons of play. In the beginning as a newcomer, we are energetic full of wondering and questions about this life we found out about in the SCA. There is a great push to find out things, learn things, discover! Spring is my favorite season but it can be a fairly short period of time in the SCA. Many people move quickly on to summer. Summer is when the blossoming talents and search for knowledge come to fruition with amazing feats of martial skill and creations from artisans. Everyone seems to like summer. It feels relaxed, you can wallow in plenty and feel secure in the warmth of understanding. The SCA has become a comfortable and welcoming place.
Then comes fall. In nature fall is the time for temperate ecosystems to rest from the bounty of summer. In the SCA this is when the long nights, the bruises, the travel, the real life starts interrupting. When another round of packing the car just wears you down, or the printer failing to print your 12 page documentation just makes you want to sob and quit. When that officer position just becomes too much and you look forward to a rest. This is a Scadian fall. When you pull back, shed a few projects, put a few things on the shelf, when you look for ways to conserve energy. If fall does not work, winter is coming. Brace yourself.
Scadian winter is when you are not fighting burnout- you are burnt out. Like a tree in the snow with naked branches you have entered dormancy. You are at rest. Trees must have this period of near total inactivity because otherwise they won’t be able to enter the next season. So now when I see someone entering burnout, I don’t feel bad for them. They need a winter, if they are ever to have a spring again with the energy, and vivaciousness that is springtime. I am in winter right now. I need a real and true rest. A time when I have totally shed all my responsibilities like leaves off a tree. While it looks like inactivity, it is merely the time before the spring. And my favorite season is spring.

56 female Knights(at last count)

Tir Righ A&S 2019: Uterine Inversion (I misunderstood. I thought this was a display from Urselmas! Project One: A treatment for Uterine Inversion After Childbirth based on the Trotula Texts. Used with permission from  Lucy Holgrove’s Receipt Book (Facebook page)

first batch baked

Feast Progress – Invites all went out on Thursday. If you have more individual ones, or a branch that you’d like to send one too, let me know! We started hearing back yes or no’s almost right away. Cookbook work. Bieroks are 1/2 done.

Early Week –

…was all cleaning up from the potluck, watering plant starts, and rearranging them. Care packages went out on Tuesday and Thursday. We were eating up left-overs all week.

Cookery – On Wednesday Anja set up tiny Rumtopf jars as thank yous for the feast. She ran out of rum before she was done, so they got an extra splash after they were all set up and a bit of sugar, as well.

On Friday, the chicken left-overs were turned into chicken salad with some celery, onion, water chestnuts and olives added to the mix.

On Saturday we started with finding the ingredients for Bieroks that we knew were in the freezer. Loren ran back and forth with bags of stuff for Anja to ID. We ended up with a mushroom onion set and a pork/beef/barley/onion set so we got those thawed and a dough made and started in. We also decided to add some ground pork, so that had to be cooked, then the filling heated to make sure it was ok, then dough. When that was ready teh dough had to be rolled, cut and filled.

“Runza” the Czech name for these, means “little bindles” and that’s what they look like as they’re formed. When they’re rising they’re flipped onto the extra dough and baked.

The dough turned out a bit tough, but this was more like a pizza dough than a bread dough. We might try them with a standard dough, but that’s going to be hard to roll out… and since we were baking only 4 at a time, some of the batches were harder than others. With pouring butter over them while hot, they softened up, too.

The stash of bobs.

Sewing – Anja is still arguing with the pattern for the cuffbands. It’s really difficult. Scissor bobs happen when frustration hits the “fry” point.

There are a lot of small bits of embroidery fabrics left over. Some are “off-cuts” or “cabbage” from pieces with curved lines or that don’t fit a standard size. There’s quite a bit of Aida from a bolt of fabric that got spoiled and stained from a leak in the roof and has been cut up. This is what’s getting used up in the bobs.

Sundials, etc. – Cut the puppet pieces. Sanded and finished a couple of small boxes that may become sewing kits.

Herb Bunch – On Tuesday, Anja wrote this, “I spent quite awhile yesterday working on the planters out front. I got a lot of old, dead foliage pulled and a lot of weeds. I filled a tote that Loren took out to a compost pile that we have use of for stuff of that sort. I managed to dump the small pots that had no plants into some of the planters that needed a bit of new dirt, like my fennel and the sorrel. I also ended up pulling up a *lot* of crocosmia corms in the process. I need to thin those out!”

Cleaned up corms

“So I have a small bucket of corms that are free to the first person that wants them and there will be more. Crocosmia have long, green sword-shaped leaves and stems of bright orange or red flowers in the summer. They love our climate out here, so after the first year, when they do need some water, they’re a no-care filler plant that chokes out grass and other weeds.”

The corms and small plants that were pulled up, like ivy and a few others were set aside for the Herbs Workshop.

Seed stash

We’re trying to work out a time to go see Marian’s bamboo. We’re waiting to see whether our times and her convenience will match. …and it does. We heard on Saturday that 3/8 is going to work for all of us.

Saturday’s Herbs Workshop was really busy. We made starts of a bunch of succulents and plants that Anja had dug up on Monday (ivy in the fennel pot? How’d that one happen?) went out and harvested some more and planted those, got a greenhouse tray planted with chives and tarragon and cleaned up the crocosmia corms.

Late in the day Loren got the two trays of starts outside, and the seed tray into the window.

Project Day – Loren was starting a bread dough, prior to making the 2nd batch of bierok dough when Estella stopped by! We had a good chat, some about the feast and feast foods, some about other food…. time for lunch, obviously. 🙂 about music for the feast and some other things.

Loren had the yeast waked up by then, so he got the dough going. …and then had to run out to pick up something. When he got back he formed and baked.

We got the pieces for my puppet cut, partway. Late in the day a couple of the small boxes got sanded and finished.

Anja spent quite a bit of the time working on the feast cookbook.

2nd batch of bierok dough didn’t work right so it got turned into focaccia.

Recipes

Bierok (Runza) These are a traditional lunch or supper dish, eaten cold or hot, as you please.

Bierok filling

  • Sauerkraut
  • Ground beef/pork/lamb mix
  • Onion
  • Barley
  • Salt
  • Spices (pepper, horseradish, mustard, caraway or what suits you)
  1. Cook the meat with the onion, drain and cool.
  2. Cook the barley until soft and cool.
  3. Rinse a double handful of sauerkraut and drain thoroughly, patting dry on paper towels to get the liquid out.
  4. Mix the meat, barley, salt and spices in a small bowl.

Bierok dough

  • 1 tbsp sugar
  • 300 ml warm water (1 ¼ cups)
  • 1 package of active dry yeast (2 ¼ Tbsp)
  • 500 g all-purpose flour, plus extra for dusting (4 cups)
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1 tbsp olive oil, plus extra for greasing
  1. Make dough in breadmaker.
  2. Roll dough to 16 inches
  3. Cut in 4×4 squares with a pizza cutter or knife (should have 36 approximately)
  4. Put a scoop of sauerkraut in each, then a scoop of the meat mixture.
  5. Bring edges together and pinch shut.
  6. Grease baking sheet or use parchment.
  7. Place each on baking sheet, sealed side down.
  8. Let rise until they “puff”.
  9. Bake at 350 until they brown, but don’t burn. (To get the time for your oven, do just a couple at first and cut open to check for doneness.)

Miscellaneous pix

Music – https://ancientfm.com/

Links

For those looking to make comfortable clothes, to sell in, to shop in, or to craft in, viking is a great option.

There is a new group to help. There will be a monthly sew-a-long complete with pattern, sewing instruction, documentation, and of course lots of group help if you get stuck.

As many artists need a canvas, but aren’t so certain about construction, or are not interested in documenting garb but still desire accuracy, these sew alongs are going to be great!

Because this is helpful to better, more comfortable event crafting, selling and shopping, I am posting the group link. I do hope it is ok to do so.

Thank you.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/475385519799179/

Funnies 

Anja, Loren, James, Sasha, Isabeau, Louisa, Amy, Herb Bunch (3), Estella, Amor (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 – 185 plus 2 puppets, 3 hippocras mix, 20 powder fort packets, 5 tiny bobs (plus 3 embroidered), 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

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Activities through 1-19-20 Potluck

House Capuchin Shield2 Major computer woes delayed this! We finally got it back on Wednesday! It also took a little bit learning the new editing software, but I think it looks ok. Joel Reid’s write-up on that awesome 12th Night outfit starts the report, but there’s more!

The cut-up chicken

Other than that, this was all cleaning up from 12th Night and then starting in on other projects until Sunday, when we had a tasty potluck.

This weekend’s workshops should be at the usual times.

  • Tripot with beets, carrots and soup

    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.
  • The first course

    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/

I asked Joel if it was ok to swipe his info in its entirety and he gave permission. This is an *amazing* gown and less than $100? Who says you’re stuck with Norse?

Joel Reid Jr. – The full process of design to patterning to construction and completion of the checkered frock of doom

So for context. Last year I was given the challenge to make a set of clothes entirely by hand and using period appropriate materials. I did that. It took WAY more time than I like to spend on projects and it cost me substantially more than I like to spend on projects for myself. But it got a lot of positive attention and feedback. But what nagged at the back of my brain was the notion that you have to have access to a significant amount of cash to make an Elizabethan frock that looks majestic and elegant. So, being that I’m in the SCA I decided to set myself the challenge to make Elizabethan on a budget. This frock had a budget of 100$ that I’d allow myself to spend on new materials and I could raid and pillage my stock of scraps and left overs to round it out.

The material I chose to work with is the colored muslin that JoAnn Fabrics sells in eleventy million colors. It averages 3$-4$/ yd. the linings and interlining for the doublet are all scraps left over from other projects. The skirt lining is one giant piece of white taffeta. The gold paint I used to execute the sun bursts and the text around the hem was already in my crafting stash as was the gold cording used to outline the sun bursts on the doublet and the heraldic roses on the skirt.

For those wondering I did not hesitate to paint the fabric as the Rainbow portrait is widely believed to feature painted rather than embroidered motifs and a recreation of the gown to be displayed with the portrait was created utilizing stamped and painted motifs.

I will probably go a bit over the 100$ limit I imposed on myself, I want to get some ribbons and findings to create decorative bows to finish the look off with, but I’m at 89.75$ right now so I’m ok with letting myself have permission to go a bit over, I purposely chose to use the very humble colored muslin that most people in the SCA use to make their first T-tunics out of in order to demonstrate that you can take that very humble fabric and through use and styling in period appropriate manners, elevate it to a fabulous level without having to break the bank to do it.

…and the other post that I commented on.

January 13 at 12:55 PM

So there have been a number of questions about the gown I wore this weekend at AnTir’s 12th Night. I will address a few of the more frequent ones here in a brief summary post. It isn’t going to cover every possible question, admittedly, but as it has been suggested by Tristin Tayla Sablerose on the ride down to 12th night, and by Charles de Bourbon and Shannon Christensen at 12th Night, and Michelle Height after……..a more detailed write up of the process of conception/planning/budgeting/construction is imperative given the project constraints I placed on myself to execute this and how I then went about meeting them. Jonnalyhn Wolfcat Prill has also requested a “boot-camp” day of teaching about processes and techniques employed in making this ensemble….so planning for that is in the very initial steps of coming together. Khalja Khorkhoi was also a strong influence on this because last year she put the thought in my head about teaching about making late period clothing more economically so it can be accessible to a wider audience of people with different spending thresholds for their SCA clothing.

1-“Is it uncomfortable?” Nope. I wore that outfit for most of the day and only changed out of it because I was going to be having pasta in a marinara sauce for dinner and didn’t want to risk spillage and stains……I could have gone well into the night with it but for that concern.
2-“What does the hem text Say?”

I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain.

It’s the litany against fear from Frank Herbert’s Dune….and while not strictly period, I think its a perfectly apt mantra for running at your creative “fears” head on and tackling them.

3-Yes it was a time consuming project, made the more so because I hit a wall regarding patience while working on the heraldic roses and walked away from the creation of the skirt yardage for about a month and a half. That being said…..had I not opted to create checkered yardage for both the doublet and skirt, this would have gone together in about a week of evening sewing sessions averaging 3-4 hours each….the actual pattern piece shapes to create this are really quite simple, i just complicated this and lengthened the time line by deciding to create it from several miles of different scale checkers

4-There is a mixture of hand sewing and machine sewing employed in the creation of this gown. Despite having created the additional construction hurdle of checkered yardage…..I was conscious of the need to keep somewhat of a lid on the amount of time the project would take because I didn’t want to get to a point where I started resenting the time it was taking to make the thing and have it end up in the “bad project pile” because I was sick of dealing with it. So I sought ways to economize the time necessary to put this together and focused the fiddley hand sewing only where it was best employed for final effect…..long running straight join seams or hems that no one was ever going to be able to see the stitching…yeah, I was TOTALLY ok with deploying the sewing machine on those.

5-there are only 5 basic stitches you need to be able to do (or have a sewing machine that can do them) to accomplish something like this
-pad stitch
-running straight stitch
-whip stitch
-button hole stitch
-back stitch

None of them are difficult…and for the ones that get done by hand, are very easy once you get a rhythm down and figure out what your optimal working thread length is to maximize your speed at stitching.

6-YOU TOO CAN DO THIS……if you have made a T-tunic, you can make this. I purposely set out to make this gown out of the most economic fabric possible and then elevate it through how I used it to look more fabulous than it originally seemed when on the bolt. I used the cheap cotton broadcloth that everyone makes their first starter T-tunics from when they join the SCA. Having set myself a 100$ budget for this outfit ( with allowed addition of scraps and materials from my stash of left over fabrics from pervious projects)…..cost was certainly one of the main reasons for opting for the humble cotton broadcloth, but there were other factors that made it my preferred choice as well. And while I did end up going over the 100$ budget point by $7.53……I still am chalking this up as a success for staying that close to the budget over all.

7-the design impetus was my coat of arms. A red Letter A, in a sunburst, on a black and white quartered ground, with a red border around that, in which there are white heraldic roses. There is a veil that will be made to accompany this frock, and on the veil will be my coat of arms so that there is a complete version of it to accompany the outfit that is a “deconstructed” version of it.

8-my intent when creating this was not to represent accurate period clothing worn by a person in the late 1500s-early years of the 1600s. Rather, much like how people in the SCA regularly make 14th and 15th century heraldic clothing that did not actually exist within those times, this is my take on how someone could interpret incorporation of their heraldry into a late period design intended for a court masque, a masquerade ball/ carnival or festival. I pulled inspiration from the super over the top period costume designs Indigo Jones was creating for masques and masquerades in the late 1590s and early 1600s. I added the component of tight budgeting because I’d gone well over my normal working budget the previous year on a suit of men’s clothes made from only period appropriate materials. While I really enjoyed the process of creation for that ensemble, I was acutely conscious of the fact that clothing like that telegraphs the implied message that for one’s work to be taken seriously and be perceived as worthwhile, one must have the cash flow that can absorb throwing around 1.5-2K in materials and I really didn’t like that implication. So I set about creating something just as fabulous, but utilizing very humble, readily accessible fabrics….but just use them in very period methods, with a very period appropriate approach to cutting and patterning and fabric use efficiency, so that while the materials might not be period, the mentality governing their use and manipulation would be.

Early Week – Unpacking and putting away was most of Monday and Tuesday, and not all of that is done, even yet. The computer crashed in the middle of Monday afternoon, just after that report got published….

Cookery – Other than potluck cookery (see below) a dill soup got made from the whey and a couple more of the cheeses were finished. The Keeper Cookies for the feast got started this week.

Sewing – Some embroidery happened. Just Anja for the workshop.

Herb Bunch – Had a busy and longer than usual workshop on Saturday. We spent the first hour bagging and preparing herbs, (basil, oak moss, bay, spruce needles, yarrow flowers)

Next we started in on potting some starts and re-potting ready plants. We went on until well past 1:30 until we ran out of pots and potting soil.

At that point we took a “tour of the garden” and talked about a field trip to see Marian’s bamboo.

Project Day 

The chicken was roasting by 10am and I made a chicken/barley/mushroom soup, and both carrots and beets in butter sauce to go with it. We started our potluck with a nibbles tray that had garlic butter, tvarog, clotted cream and fig and honey jam, plus 4 kinds of pickles and bread. After the chickens were done and served I picked the carcasses over and made that into another broth.

I was also “wrassling” with an embroidered piece that I started a long while back that I never finished because the embroidery was off (I miscounted). I’m going to finish it, anyway, but I’m trying to work out the finishing stitch that I used. I *must* have it listed in one of my books, somewhere, and I’m going to have to hunt because I can’t seem to work it out.

Potluck – Loren and I were pretty tired by the time it came around to eating. He actually fell asleep with his first course in his lap!

The first course

Potluck Menu

1st course

  • garlic butter
  • tvarog
  • clotted cream
  • fig and honey jam
  • bread
  • pickled chickpea
  • pickled red beans
  • carrot and onion pickles
  • dilly beans
The cut-up chicken

Main

  • Chicken roasted with Salsa Fina
  • Chicken/barley/mushroom soup (recipe below)
  • Carrots in butter sauce
  • Beets in butter sauce

Last course

  • Comfits
  • Fresh fruit (grapes)

After the chickens were done and served I picked the carcasses over and made that into another broth and while that was cooking, set up the care packages.

Recipes

Quick Chicken and Mushroom soup

  • 2 cups Chicken Broth (made in this case from the giblets and necks of the chickens, plus some salt)
  • Chopped chicken bits (liver, heart, and bits of meat from the necks) (optional)
  • 1 onion
  • 1 cup barley
  • 1 large can mushrooms
  1. Strain the broth, first, if you made your own. Discard most of the giblets. Pick the accessible meat from the necks…. or just ignore this and toss all of it….
  2. Measure the broth.
  3. Taste to see whether it needs salt.
  4. Chop onion and add.
  5. Add barley and simmer until barley is soft.
  6. Drain mushrooms and add to soup.
  7. Add spices if you wish, but this had none.

Music – AncientFM this week….  

Funnies 

Anja, Loren, Susanne, Herbs Bunch (3), James (v), Sash (v), Isabeau (v), Coleman (v), Louisa (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 – 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

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Activities through 1-13-20 Twelfth Night

House Capuchin Shield2Crazy, crazy amount of work this week and only a few pix to show for it! That’s 12th Night for you!

Classes went well, although Loren and Anja only managed the one day at the event, and we were it, as far as House people go.

Lots of pix below, snagged from facebook albums and the few that we managed.

This week is all sorting everything out and we’re starting the “keeper” cookie baking this week. Potluck this Sunday!

  • 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 – 1/19/20, 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/

Early Week – Cookery and planning….

Cookery – Working on cheese and food for the trip.

  • Monday was a batch of rolls and cooking a tvarog.
  • Tuesday – finished tvarog and did a savory almond cheese.
  • Wednesday was all making equipment lists for the cheese class
  • Thursday – Bread
  • Friday – Cheeses for class

Sewing – Some pouches got worked on during the week and the cuffbands. On Saturday at 12th Night Anja finished sewing the pear pincushion. It still needs weighted and stuffed.

12th Night – Friday – Prep

We were so unhappy about suddenly having to cut the trip back to just the one day! But all day Friday we were working on lists and packing while doing cheeses and we really didn’t get enough sleep. Photos were showing up on Facebook all day Thursday and Friday from the site.

12th Night – Saturday – The crazy everything day

…and wouldn’t you know, I forgot the camera! Loren said that he would take pictures for me on his phone, but then he forgot, too…..

By 4:30 we were up and getting things going, but by 5:30 things were walking out to the car. We were on the road at 6:30, but had to turn around a couple of miles later to retrieve the copy of the directions. The Moon was westering over the ocean and we had some wonderful views on the way to Newport. In Seal Rock I was commenting on how rough the ocean was and wondering whether we were going to see sea foam “snow”. We were both laughing in seconds because we did! Once we were on 20, it was just rain, and more rain, and the occasional idiot who decided to drive in the trunk of the car with high beams on. <sigh>

It was getting light and we stopped in Philomath for a quick potty break and a breakfast sandwich. By the time we turned on I-5 the rain had pretty much stopped and we were in sunshine several times. We saw several flocks of geese overhead. The sun fighting his way through the clouds to create silver and gold glory in the sky was pretty spectacular. The last bit was pretty nerve-racking, since it was obvious we were going to be late… and we were…

Loren dropped me at the hotel entrance and I trotted in to gate and asked if I could deal with it later, since I was late for class. I trotted over there and found folks waiting for me. Bless them for giving me the benefit of the doubt!

…and a bit of a shock. Last winter’s gift exchange ended up with me being late, but the person that I was being gifted by was even later, so I got an “angel gift” of saffron bulbs, a table banner and some other little things. That was plenty, as far as I was concerned, but when I walked into class I got handed an amazing jewel/makeup box with a snowflake on the lid. It’s the kind with an internal mirror. I’ve wanted one for 25 years or more and I got handed one! I hugged the maker really, really hard and thanked him profusely. …and in my usual inimitable style I never got his name….

…and then dove right into class. I completely forgot to get the class fee, but plowed through the whole class with some info for further study. I did get them to sign up on a signup sheet. I gave them all the apothecary guild info, too

After class I got nabbed to go back to gate before they closed for Court (I had forgotten) I managed to wrench a hip trying to walk too fast. <sigh>

Yseult come into the room for a bit and we visited for a few minutes. Same with Marian.

Loren and I started setting up the cheese stuff, then we both got naps. I woke and tended cheeses and such until it was time for class. I ended up doing a couple of mini-classes, both on the cheese and one on the almond cheese that I did during that break. I got to visit with a couple of the students that came in early and found that one lives in Eugene and one in Drain. We had one younger student who was very enthusiastic about stirring the warming milk and that was a good grin. We whomped through the whole class with a few minutes left to spare. Everyone got to take cheese home and to sample textures and flavors. I got the class fees and everyone’s names, too!

At the end of class-time a couple more people showed up to get samples. We spent some time chatting until that thinned out and then we started packing down. It took awhile, since Loren got some of the dishes done so they could just get put by when we got home.

Temperance stopped by to see whether we were still there and we chatted for a bit. She also handed me the bardic champion’s cloak for Corvaria, for me to wear until April.

We were back on the road by 8pm and I dozed off and on most of the way home. Loren had curled up and napped, first in a chair and then on the floor for most of 6 hours during the day, but I was wiped from class. We were home and in bed by 10:30.

12th Night – Sunday – Unpacking & Project Day – We were so tired from the event that we slept very late. We finally got to unpacking the cheese stuff and getting that put away after dark, but I got photos and then Loren put all the stuff away. We have 3 recipes of tvarog to eat up! Some work happened on the pear pincushion, but we’ll get that into next week’s report.

Class cheeses

Finishing up.

12th Night pix

Prep & Windows

Miscellaneous

Legends of AnTir series – New adds!

The Royalty Banners – These are the embroidered devices of all the Princes and Princesses, when An Tir was still a Principality of the West and then the Kings and Queens. This project was started by Amanda Kendal and is now being organized by Eduardo. The photos of the individual banners is by Tierzah Nic Cathal who is the current organizer of the embroideries.

Cleanup

How Yseult keeps it together (photo by Marian Harris)

Music

Funnies 

Anja, Loren,

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 – 184+1=185 plus 2 puppets, 3 hippocras mix, 20 powder fort packets, 3 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

moving writing pen motifIn ministerio autem Somnium! Anja, graeca doctrina servus to House Capuchin
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