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Activities through 6-30-19

House Capuchin Shield2First thing – A Summits Travel Fundraiser – https://www.customink.com/fundraising/summits-travel-fund There are a couple of styles of shirts and a hoodie!

Next, Happy Birthday to Brandon! …all the way up in Eskalya!

Raspberries

We had what seemed to be a short week, with last week’s report coming out late and then the monthly pointer in the middle of the week…or it was supposed to be. It helps to remember to hit, “publish”…..

Amy stopped by to chat during a non-meeting time. She’s working through the njalbinden

instructions in her new book.

Finished, but the letters still don’t show.

Gudrun has a write-up of her week below. We’re setting up a “care package” for her, too, with some feast gear, wool and a spindle. Hopefully, that will go home to her after AWW.

Foods for the Queen’s Tea are being picked up on Wednesday. Susanne and Anja are going to AWW on Friday, so that Anja can teach her blackwork class and they’ll drop off the Gudrun box at that time. Saturday/Sunday meetings will be as usual.

  • 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 – 7/21, 8/18, 9/15, 10/20, 11/17, 12/15
  • Winter Feast Date is 2/16/20, 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 – …sailed on past. Last week’s report went out kinda late, and Anja and Loren are crazy busy with a get-ready-for-summer project in their shop.

Gudrun reported in during the early week. She’s getting ready to do more on her Chinese costume project and was doing a lot of research on Tuesday. She has a write-up of her week below.

Sasha handed back some dishes and a set of small wooden animals for largesse.

Gudrun before the fashion show at 12th Night 2016

Gudrun’s week – On Friday June 28th Wyewood had held their monthly business meeting in Renton, for which I, officers, and various populace members had been in attendance for. At the meeting, I had met a number of officers and populous members, in addition to the current Baron and Baroness. During the business meeting, several topics had been discussed including, and not limited to replacements for current officers in addition to a search for an event steward specifically for the Feast of Saint Bubba’s along with an Archery and Thrown Weapons fun-ness on July 4th and two new elevations yet to be coming. Afterwards, there had been a small giveaway of fabric, and feast gear. I got a mug!

Saturday June 29th Wyewood had then held Archery and Thrown Weapons practice, for which I had been there! We had brought out Bows, which I had gotten to shoot for about 1 hour (Spoiler: I wasn’t terribly good.) and then for more time, I had participated in Thrown Weapons utilizing an Axe. (Spoiler: Also not very good, but getting better!)

Sunday June 30th I had then gone to Rapier practice, however had been nearly an hour late. Counting myself, there had been 5 participants. I got to learn the beginnings of Italian Fencing! All in all, much fun to be had.

Two finished cheeses wrapped in rum-soaked fig leaves, left peeled back to show the cheese

Cookery – Setting up the cheeses to sit and age until needed happened in the very early week.

Anja is on the Stromgard culinary group and saved the recipes from this week’s “ginger” meeting. Ask if you want a copy.

More recipe research happened.

Finished, but the letters still don’t show.

Sewing – Anja finally decided how to finish the birth sampler and got to work on that, along with a very mundane biscornu and then, by request, worked out a pattern for a combination historical recreating and nerd-stuff and sent it off. During the cleaning, several partially finished items popped up that got put away and a couple tossed into the laundry, ‘coz of where they’d been. …and then some embroidery fabric, irretrievably stained, landed in the ball stuffing box.

Sewing workshop on Saturday was just Anja.

Sciences, Sundials and such… and beeswax – Loren kept on with cleaning up items for sale and/or largesse during the week. The wax is coming along. One more melt and strain and cool and it will be put by to age. Anja’s talking about not aging it and just making her thread waxers out of the un-aged wax and letting them age under the counter.

Herb Bunch – In the early part of the week the plants from last week got shifted into the garden area. Some harvesting of greens for sandwiches got done and a lot of watering. The lemon balm went into the open sign window for the shop, so it’s out of range of the snails, this time. They ate the last one right down to the ground.

The hanging rack is being stripped of old herbs and those are being crunched for compost. We finally got that far! That’s what we did during Saturday’s workshop and then late in the day some harvesting happened for salads, sandwiches and the raspberries are ripe!

Bone needle

Project Day – Loren made a bone needle, first, while Anja was doing photos. That and some embroider is all that was accomplished, because we also had some mundanes in, who were in need of an embroidery lesson.

Miscellaneous pix

Music – A fun one! 

Song, Gryphon’s Flight – https://soundcloud.com/don-reynolds-253060218/gryphons-flight?fbclid=IwAR3lJYkIN74GCoSEA_j-X0__ruh9wzqgts7F9yLjtLF4LTDxzQFUAraPNzo

Les Bouffons – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5yiUPii3aQ

Links

Funnies 

Posted on Facebook for 6/26/19 – Joe Cook-Giles – I have a question for heralds.

Let’s say you are at an equestrian event, and you see a horse covered in heraldic barding. If the heralds begin talking about it, is that an example of blazon saddles?

Loren, Anja, Gudrun (v), Sasha (v), Amy

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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 – 41 plus 2 puppets, 20 powder fort packets, 25 pouches for block-printing, 1 medium pouch, 8 bookmarkers, 5 in-process kisslock pouches, 20 unfinished pincushions, 1 sewing kit (except for bone needle), varnished stuff (124)

Total as a Household = 3870 handed off

moving writing pen motifIn ministerio autem Somnium! Anja, graeca doctrina servus to House Capuchin
Page Created 6/20/19 & published 7/1/19 (C)M. Bartlett
Last updated 7/1/19

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Activities through 6-23-19

House Capuchin Shield2Tourist Season is starting. Loren and Anja are getting run off their feet. Others are also immersed in summer tasks.

Estella helps with music in a number of places. Gudrun is still job hunting. Amor has been posting interesting science stuff this week. Sabrina’s doing fringes on woven scarves. 🙂

Meetings should be at the normal time this week.

  • Herb Bunch – At Ancient Light, Saturdays, 11am-1pm
  • Two finished cheeses wrapped in rum-soaked fig leaves, left peeled back to show the cheese

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

  • Project Day – At Ancient Light, Sundays, Noon to 6pm
  • The wooden knife

    Cheese and Wine happens irregularly, usually announced with little notice on our Facebook group.

  • Next Potluck – 7/21, 8/18, 9/15, 10/20, 11/17, 12/15
  • Winter Feast Date is 2/16/20, 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 – Of course Monday was all about clean-up and that went on into Tuesday.

Cookery – Got a suggestion from our German “consultant” that a potato ricer works really well for making spaetzle.

Two scalded milk cheeses got done on Tuesday and wrapped in rum-soaked fig leaves.

Two finished cheeses wrapped in rum-soaked fig leaves, left peeled back to show the cheese

Sciences projects – Loren spent some time doing sanding and metal cleaning this week. He regularly re-finishes the wooden dishes and some of that happened from the potluck. On Saturday and odd knife that came in with some garage sale stuff got cleaned up and then on Sunday he sanded and refinished a wooden knife.

Herb Bunch – Packed herbs in the morning workshop. Otherwise, the week was all tending except for the tomatoes/lemon Balm on Project Day.

Sewing – Was all Anja’s embroidery, both during the week and during the workshop, other than a couple of mundanes in with need for mending help. This is a bib, being done in blackwork.

Investiture – Our new Prince and Princess! …and Grand Thing was this weekend, as well.

Project Day – The day started with Loren running upriver to get a couple of tomato plants and a replacement for the lemon balm that the snails ate. He came back with several mustard greens plants, as well! Those got potted up late in the afternoon with some lettuce seeds and a set of radishes that have been growing in a rotisserie chicken box for a pot.

We were really, really busy with the shop during the day and since it was just the two of us, we really didn’t get any projects accomplished, except for the leather knife and a wooden knife that Loren cleaned up.

All of those pix are above.

Miscellaneous pix

Links

Funnies 

Anja, Loren, James (v), Gudrun (v), Amor (v), Herb Bunch (2)

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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 – 41 plus 20 powder fort packets, 25 pouches for block-printing, 1 medium pouch, 8 bookmarkers, 5 in process kisslock pouches, 20 unfinished pincushions, 1 sewing kit (except for bone needle), varnished stuff (124)

Total as a Household = 3870 handed off

moving writing pen motifIn ministerio autem Somnium! Anja, graeca doctrina servus to House Capuchin
Page Created 6/6/19 & published 6/25/19 (C)M. Bartlett
Last updated 6/25/19

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Activities through 6-16-19 Potluck

House Capuchin Shield2For the life of me, I have no clue how this week rushed past so fast!

Many things happened this week from the wax processing that started us off to the foods for the potluck. All are below.

Meetings should all be on time this week. Cheese is likely to be Tuesday evening.

  • 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 – 7/21, 8/18, 9/15, 10/20, 11/17, 12/15
  • Winter Feast Date is 2/16/20, 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/

The Flying McFlandry Guard – Mistress Arlys o Gordon

No shit, there we were…. the MacFlandry Guard was doing a drill one morning at an event down in The Summits. The site was a beautiful little park surrounded by low mountains (extinct volcanos, mostly. The overall effect was that of a bowl. I was a bannerman that day, and was carrying a huge and beautiful banner made by Dame Guiliana Benevoli. The bannermen were in the middle of the group.

All is business as usual until a freak wind blows down. I feel it rush past my ankles, then move up my back, heard a sharp FOOSH!!! and then next thing I knew, I was 4 feet off the ground, holding onto a banner pole and making like a sailplane. Someone behind me yelled “AIRBORNE!!!!” Col. Evan, at the front, snaps round in an instant,gasps, “Arlys!!!” and those closest to me close in so I won’t go drifting off to Portland. Meanwhile, the wind still has me at 4 feet of elevation. I did not drop the banner because the winds were very strong that day and a free banner could have done immense amount of damage (Sottish tiddlywinks. Not on my watch!)

Col. Evan meanwhile grabbed me by the waist and tried pulling me down. The sail held fast and had other ideas, Some of the halberdeers tried smacking at it, to no avail, and then they tried flattening the huge thing against its pole. (I have a deep trust for these guys who were handling seriously sharp pointy objects in my direction.) At least they succeeded–the banner released, I released and promptly fell on Col. Evan who still had me by the waist. I am taller and a bit heavier and heard an “oof!” from him as we hit the ground.

“Arlys?”

“Yes, sir?”

“Don’t do that again.”

“No sir.”

Early Week – We kept going on the wax. The first “cake” was ready to be pulled, so more wax went in. More on this below in its own section. Other than hands-busy stuff that’s about it.

Cookery – On Tuesday Anja was doing some more research, trying to track down the beet and horseradish salad/sauce. She found a period one, so went ahead and tried it, adapting from both it and a recipe from Tres Bohemes (see below).

On Thursday she set up the pork roast, so it would be finished and put by for Sunday, rather than having to roast it that day along with the other trial dishes. We also got the dehydrator going on the lees of the cordials that got made back in May and made a batch of marzipan. Also, apples and a watermelon got picked up for apples with sweet cicely and watermelon tea.

The dehydrated stuff from the cordials started getting ground on Saturday, but the grinder broke. <sigh> Apples got started in a crockpot and a batch of girdle cakes, made from pea and oat flour. These were “stout” as Loren put it, chewy, but very tasty. We also added a little garlic to them.

Mostly finished – There still look to be too many white spaces….

Sewing – Embroidery Thursday & Friday evening, plus some pieces got washed on Friday.

The birth sampler is nearly done. There are some small white spaces to be filled, but fewer than a dozen and none more than 3/4 inch.

Cleaned up.

Beeswax – We kept going on the beeswax on Monday, the first stuff was a very thin cake, so we kept adding and melting as the day went on. It was going to need to be strained, at least a little. The pot that we’ve been using suddenly decided that it was no longer going to keep integrity, so we had a sudden, “Gleep! Halp! Grab the other pot!” …. but no real harm done. …and the rusted-through pot became the spot for the goop that got strained off. That will go in with some other reclaimed wax later.

The “cake” got washed and put by on Wednesday, along with the “reclaimables”.

Dehydrated Parsleys

Herb Bunch – Mostly there was some tending during the week, then on Saturday morning, Anja did some harvesting again, mostly for the sweet cicely for the apples, but also some cress and sorrel for sandwiches and to knock down the amazing huge parsleys and cilantro. The oregano got weeded meticulously, since an weird plant invaded all the pots that had been at Jeanne’s and this one we’d missed. Oddly, it looks like it also had some poppies growing in it. We’ll see.

Stella stopped by Saturday afternoon to chat for a bit. She’s looking a lot better, but still kinda pale under her tan.

Later that evening the parsleys went into the dehydrator so they could be saved for later.

 

Project Day – We had a batch of younguns sanding wooden animals for a little bit, while Loren was making a couple of pumpernickel loaves. After that Anja headed into the back to check on the apples and set out the potted cheese and the butter that were coming up to edible temp on the table.

…and just after 2pm the power went out at the shop. It didn’t come back until 4:45. That put back quite a bit of what we had planned. The youngsters took off when the power went. We sat and talked because there was very little light indoors and it was too windy outside to do anything. At 5 we started the cooking that should have been started around 2pm.

Potluck – We didn’t eat until 9pm because of the power being off until nearly 5pm. First we had to sort out some of the stuff that didn’t get done between 3 and 4, which was mostly finding things (yeah, the back of the shop was dark during the power outage) and then get the butter and water heating for spaetzle. It was 7pm by the time that was even ready to cook. I had intended to get the water heating at 3pm.

Potluck Menu 

1st Course

  • Bread, pumpernickle
  • Potted Cheese
  • Garlic & Herb butter
  • black bean pickle
  • Multi-veg pickle

Main Course

  • Pork Roast in onions and caraway
  • Apples with sweet cicely (trial run)
  • Beet/horseradish Sauce (trial run)
  • Spätzle (trial run)
  • Stewed root vegetables with caraway, mustard and greens. (trial run)
  • Pickled beets

Sweet Course

  • Marzipan (done)

Recipes

Spätzle – (traditional German) 

Ingredients:

  • 2 1/2 cups flour
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 2/3 cup water
  • 1/2 cup milk
  • 3 eggs
  • butter for finishing

Method

  1. In a large bowl mix together the flour and salt. Add the water, milk and eggs to a measuring cup and whisk together well.
  2. Pour into the bowl with the flour and immediately start vigorously stirring the batter with a wooden spoon until there are no more lumps and you start seeing bubbles forming. Cover and rest for 30 minutes.
  3. When ready to make the Spätzle bring a large pot of salted water to the boil. Heat a large frying pan over medium heat and add a knob of butter to it.
  4. Place a coarse metal grater (or a special Spätzle maker if you own one) over the pot. Add about 1/3 cup of batter on top of the grater and gently stroke over it with the back of a spoon. Remove the grater and let the Spätzle cook until they come to the surface. Remove with a slotted spoon and drop into the hot pan. Proceed the same way with the remaining batter, adding more butter to the pan as needed.

Giano Balestriere I can’t confirm spätzle specifically, but there is a late 1400s recipe that involves an egg-based dough pulled into pieces and boiled (in milk, though). That comes reasonably close, and variations must have existed. Most pasta recipes that survive from period Germany are for knife-cut noodles.

Giano Balestriere Take good white flour and make dough with egg whites. Have boiling milk ready in a pan and pull the dough into little pieces, throwing them in as the milk boils. It must be salted beforehand. Also add fat. See that it stays worm-shaped. Do not oversalt it. Serve it.(Dorotheenkloster MS#150) After Bach, Volker: The Kitchen, Food and Cooking in Reformation Germany

Beet Sauce (redacted from Rumpolt)

Ingredients

  • 3 beets, trimmed & peeled
  • 1 cup water
  • ½ cup vinegar
  • 1 1×3 inch horseradish root, peeled and grated (last inch was cut and added to beets)
  • ¼ cup Muscat
  • ¼ cup Tbsp. cider vinegar
  • 1 tsp. brown sugar
  • ¼ tsp whole coriander
  • ¼ tsp whole aniseed
  • 1 tsp whole caraway
  • pinch of sea salt
  • 1 tsp. brown sugar
  • pinch of sea salt

Tools

  • Saucepan
  • Peeler
  • Microplane
  • Masher
  • Knife
  • Stirring spoon
  • Glass canning jar

Directions

  1. Place the beets in a medium saucepan and cover with water and first amount of vinegar.
  2. Peel and grate horseradish.
  3. Cut last inch and add to beets.
  4. Bring to a boil and then cover and cook until tender, about 20 minutes.
  5. Put grated horseradish in jar and add wine and vinegar, spices, salt and sugar and let stand.
  6. Drain beets and mash in the pot.
  7. Then add the beets to the jar and stir well.
  8. Refrigerate overnight so all the flavors have a chance to blend well and stir again before each use.

Store in the refrigerator for up to two weeks.

Source

Beet Sauce – Rumpolt

Ein New Kochbuch. Marx Rumpolt. 1581, Transcribed by Dr. Thomas Gloning; Translated by Gwen Catrin von Berlin.

Rote Ruben eyngemacht mit klein geschnittenen Merrettich/ Aniss/Coriander/ und ein wenig Kuemel/ sonderlich wenn die Ruben geschnitten/ gesotten mit halb Wein und halb Essig.

 Red beets preserved with small cut horseradish/ anise/ coriander/ and a little caraway/ special if the beets are cut/ marinated in half wine and half vinegar.

Bohemian Beet and Horseradish Relish – Červená řepa s křenem  BY KYTKA MARCH 27, 2018

Ingredients

  • 3 beets, scrubbed and trimmed
  • 1 6 to 8 inch horseradish root, peeled and grated
  • 2 Tbsp. vinegar (Yes, you can use apple cider vinegar to make it healthier)
  • 1 tsp. sugar, brown sugar or honey
  • inch of sea salt

Directions

  1. Place the beets in a medium saucepan and cover completely with cold water.
  2. Bring to a boil and then cover and cook until tender, about 35 minutes.
  3. Drain and set aside to cool.
  4. As it is draining, peel and grate your horseradish.
  5. When the beets have cooled, grate them into a bowl, or better yet, pulse in your food processor, realizing it will look like a bloody mess all over the place and there will be a lot of clean up!
  6. Then add the beets, grated horseradish, vinegar, brown sugar or honey, and a pinch of salt to a large plate or mixing bowl and blend the rich goodness all together.
  7. Work together until well combined and voila! You now have Bohemian beet and horseradish relish.
  8. Transfer the delicious and colorful concoction to a glass container.
  9. Refrigerate overnight so all the the flavors have a chance to blend well.

The best part is that you can store it in the refrigerator for up to two weeks.

This is quite loud! It’s good, but you have to use it in similar amounts to mustard or some other spicy sauce. Don’t eat a whole heaping teaspoonful!

Apples with Sweet Cicely

Ingredients:

  • 1 1/2 pounds cooking apples
  • honey or other sweetener to taste, about ¼ cup honey
  • 2 cups water
  • 2 teaspoons minced sweet cicely

Core and chop apples. Put into a crockpot and add honey. Cook overnight. Use a potato masher to roughly mash down. Stir the sweet cicely into the apples and cool in the pan. Serve warm or cold with whipped cream.

Miscellaneous pix

Photo of the coins from last week with what they are.

An assortment of late Middle Ages coins – from left to right…Fatimid Egyptian fractional dinars. Prince Bohemond Tripoli/Antioch, Groschen. Church of the Holy Sepulchre/Kingdom of Jerusalem-King Almalric, denier. Baldwin III/King-Kingdom of Jerusalem Denier. Saladin Half Dirham

Music – German Renaissance song 2

German Renaissance song 3

German Renaissance song 4

Links

King John was not a good man —
He had his little ways.
And sometimes no one spoke to him
For days, and days, and days.

Funnies 

Anja, Loren, House Silvermists (v), Gudrun (v), Stella, 3 extra kids that walked into the shop

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 – 41 plus 2 puppets, 20 powder fort packets, 25 pouches for block-printing, 1 medium pouch, 8 bookmarkers, 5 in-process kisslock pouches, 20 unfinished pincushions, 1 sewing kit (except for bone needle), varnished stuff (124)

Total as a Household = 3870 handed off

moving writing pen motifIn ministerio autem Somnium! Anja, graeca doctrina servus to House Capuchin
Page Created 5/30/19 & published 6/17/19 (C)M. Bartlett
Last updated 6/17/19

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Activities through 6-9-19

House Capuchin Shield2Everyone was pretty busy this week. A lot more is happening in the way of research than actual “stuff”, but that’s a nice change. Anja and Loren’s shop is gearing up for the summer, so they have less time than usual. We heard from some of the outlying members this week, but all of them are saying, “Work!” and “Busy!”.

An assortment of late Middle Ages coins

We have potluck coming up on Sunday, so there will be some stuff concentrating on that during the week, probably a Cheese night, at least, so watch for that. Otherwise all meetings on time this week.

  • 12 and a bit over pounds of “comb wax” or industrial grade. This is goign to have to be melted, washed and aged before use.

    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 – 6/16, 7/21, 8/18, 9/15, 10/20, 11/17, 12/15
  • Winter Feast Date is 2/16/20, 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/

Stephanie Kahn Blaine to Pennsic War Posted and shared on Facebook on 6/8/19

Who wants a good laugh?

I admin a friend’s FB group and admin my own similar FB group — both about an ethnic specific food.

So a new member just asked another new member, who said she could teach the first one how to bake an ethnic specialty item if she lived nearby. First member asked where; second member says — and I kid you not! —
“Oh, it’s a small town you’ve never ever heard of, New Castle PA.” 😂🤣🤣

So I post, “Well, I most certainly know New Castle… and Butler… very, very well!”

Girl says, “I don’t recognize your name, you aren’t from around here. So how do you know New Castle?”

I said, “If I say ‘Coopers Lake Campground’, will that tell you anything? How about if I say ‘Pennsic War’?”

Her reply had me laughing:
“OMFG! You’re one of Them!! lol”

We had a good laugh while thousands of members from across the world of our ethnicity started asking, “huh?”

Then, I found The One member in the group who had once been an SCA member… and he asked me if that’s what the name Richenda de Honneflo was about… and if so — why am I a Norman persona and not one of my own real ethnicity?!

I said it’s because I’m lazy and don’t favor having to make the fussy garb required of that kind of persona. LMAO

Coopers Lake really must be the center of the universe.

Early Week – Loren started the fine sanding on the toys that Jay started on Friday. After that he did some work on a bowl. Anja kept going on the puppets and embroidery.

Gudrun is still job-hunting. Long process….

Puppets, embroidery, planting and plant tending and harvest below.

Cookery – The puffs got chowed down on, on Monday. Everyone thought they were pretty good, even cold.

Lots of recipe research this week. Anja is making a list of the various recipes in the late period German cookbooks that she’s finding.

A chicken veg soup got made and eaten during the week and then on Sunday a barley & vegetable pottage got done.

Sewing – Embroidery, only.

Herb Bunch – Quite a lot of harvest, plant tending and watering happened on Tuesday. Some lettuce seed also went into one of the buckets. Our little tree got more dirt and a thorough watering on Thursday.

Saturday workshop didn’t happen.

Project Day – Some planting of veg ends and harvesting of cress and other greens happened in the morning. That went into the barley/veg pottage and cress and cucumber sandwiches for lunch.

Our wax delivery happened, so that needs to get processed as quickly as possible. Unprocessed takes up a huge amount of room, but once it’s a cake it’s a lot easier to handle.

More work on the puppets got going and then photos. …and Anja’s next set of coins showed up from Alpha Officium

Miscellaneous pix

Music

Ill rec – German Renaissance music mix (XIV-XVI th century)

Links – A very old video (early 90’s?) of some spectacular fighters.

Did they have soap in medieval times?

Funnies 

Dave Willhoite – This is about my sword fighting hobby. It’s a true story.

A few years ago, I was privileged to read a couple’s letters of intent (the couple were friends of mine) to enter my clubs regional championship (called “Crown List”)

The lady’s copy was (until the end) a formal, ordinary letter. It went something like this…

“Please enter my husband and I in Crown Tournament. We are both members of the club. My membership number is x, My husband’s number is y. My membership expiration date is X. My husband’s membership expiration is Y….”

It went on like that until the last paragraph, which said “Please find my husband’s hand caligraphed wax applique letter attached.”

Stapled to the letter was a sheet of construction paper upon which the fighter (A big, strapping lad) had scrawled in crayon;

“SWING STICK”
“WIN FIGHT”
“GET HAT FOR SWEETIE!”

Both letters were ruled to be acceptable.

Anja, Loren, Gudrun (V), Sasha (V), 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 – 41 plus 2 puppets, 20 powder fort packets, 25 pouches for block-printing, 1 medium pouch, 8 bookmarkers, 5 in-process kisslock pouches, 20 unfinished pincushions, 1 sewing kit (except for bone needle), varnished stuff (124)

Total as a Household = 3870 handed off

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Activities through 6-2-19

House Capuchin Shield2The tourist season is picking up for Anja and Loren’s shop. That means that extra time for goodies is going to be getting harder and harder to find. They tend to keep the workshops and Project Day going, but even that sometimes falls by the wayside.

The week started with Egil’s, but other than this one pic,

Vesta on her elevation day

all of that’s gone into last week’s report, which went out very late. This week was all clean-up and put-away, other than some of Anja’s embroidery and working on herbs or bamboo.

This coming week ought to be a bit more normal with workshops at the regular times and a cheese night on Thursday.

  • 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 – 6/16, 7/21, 8/18
  • Winter Feast Date is 2/16/20, 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 – Lots of wash-and-put-away needed to happen and the pix and write-up for last week took until Wednesday to complete! By then some sewing was also happening and left-overs being eaten.

Loren had done another recipe of the pumpernickel for Susanne and Anja for Sunday. We’ve been discussing the recipe and trying to find more info. It was still soft and tasty on Tuesday, when we ate the last of it.

Amy dropped by on Thursday with a handful of mug markers and a needle, plus a “kit” for Aesa. Jay called the same day to say he was going to stop by on Friday.

Cookery – Commentary on foodstuffs from the potluck and the vigils

  • Sasha – Well, I loved the cabbage, even though I think I cooked it too long and it go rubbery. The chicken had really good flavor, but I should have just eaten those when I had the chance originally, as again pretty sure I cooked it too long. The cheese [dill/onion scalded milk] is my favorite, although the texture was to much to eat it by itself. Ended up dipping pretzel sticks in it, and it was awesome. Haven’t tried the pickled stuff yet.
  • James Defazio <moltenskies@gmail.com> – May 25 at 11:16 PM – So far, as I’ve gradually eaten at things, my favorite is the potted cheese. I bought some “everything” bagels to put the last of it on, it was really good. Might be better on some kind of French bread, though. The pickled sausage is my second favorite, definitely, and the pickled beans are strange but actually an interesting eat. The scalded milk cheese is so-so to me, it might be that I just don’t like the flavor of plain milk that much and from what I recall of the recipe for scalded milk, it’s just that. The Madez Kraut was a bit much for my tastes, though and the lemon/cinnamon chicken was alright but I’m not sure the tastes pair that well together, at least for me. It’s probably just that I don’t expect cinnamon on chicken of all things and haven’t had a chance to try it much.
  • Erika Milo  – The soft white cheese [Mustard/Caraway/Horseradish scalded milk] was enjoyed by many, and continued to be enjoyed the next day on rice, in scrambled eggs, etc.! The marzipan went away quickly! I also really liked the cheese in the crock [potted cheese], and the pickled watermelon, which surprised me.
  • Steve Jarvis – My partner REALLY liked that cheese! 🙂 [Mustard/Caraway/Horseradish scalded milk]
  • Erika Milo – The rummy cherries were so yummy!
  • Sasha – The beans [white pickled] were tasty. Thank you!
  • Jennifer Smith – The cheese was a huge hit, [dill/onion scalded milk] as were the green beans [dilly beans] and eggs [pickled]. Least eaten were the mushrooms…which I find surprising.
  • Vestia Antonia Aurelia – “”I wanted to thank everyone who made my vigil and elevation so fantastic. (And for me, it was fantastic.) I am enjoying Anja‘s boozy marzipan Right Now.  ;)””

Sewing – Mostly was Anja’s embroidery, although a bunch of puppet skirts got done on Tuesday and a bit of pouch sewing on Thursday.

Sundials, etc. – We started the experiment batch of the bamboo beads in the tumbler on Thursday at 3:45. It was a mix of cut stem, both dried and fairly green, and cut joints, ditto, in plain dry beach sand. ….An hour showed no progress, so we left it overnight, and then some more.

Friday, impromptu House stuff – Jay showed up at about 1pm and we ate pumpernickel, potted cheese, potted ham and pickled sausage for awhile while talking food, mainly catching him up on the research for the feast.

At around 3pm, Loren pulled out the wooden animal stuff and we got Jay started sanding. Not long after we popped the tumbler (more on that above). Anja spent most of the afternoon embroidering.

Herb Bunch – During the week a lot of fertilizing and watering happened, plus some more of the cleaning up of the plants in the front window.

Herbs workshop was mostly on finishing up the bamboo and getting it put by for drying. After that we got a number of herbs that had been lurking in the shelves bagged and put by, since they’re long since dried. Last bit was discussing some spice mixes that we should be making in the next couple of weeks.

Project Day – When the time started we were still trying to clear a space in back from the backlog of serving dishes and canning jars from the last few weeks. Eventually we got as far as photos of various things, and then Anja worked on finger puppets.

In the evening we got a trial run on apple puffs and cherry puffs.

Recipes

Apple puffs – created out of 3 recipes from Das Kochbuch de Sabina Welserin plus a fruit fritter recipe from Spruce Eats. 

These are interesting. They’re pretty easy to put together, and not particularly expensive. The hard part was deciding when they were done, so we fried them at several levels, when they “rose” (not done), when they “rose” and were flipped and given that long again (apple still chewy, but very good), given until they began to brown (apple was quite cooked), and then to quite brown (too eggy, they got tough) It seems like the best level was just as they begin to brown, flip them and then let them start to brown again.

Yes, the dough is *very* eggy* and the fritter recipe had salt in it, which was a bad idea. Frying them in butter they don’t need any at all.

We’ll try another batch in the future that is 1 egg and add some extra water to thin it, so see whether the eggy dough is better or not.

They’re tasty hot and still tasty when just warm. We’ll have some for breakfast and let you know how they are, cold.

…and they were better cold than warm!

Apple puffs

  • 1 cup sifted flour
  • 1 tablespoon sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 1/2 cup water
  • 2 sticks butter
  • 2-3 apples depending on size. Or 1 can pitted pie cherries (not bing/sweets!)
  1. Mix flour, sugar, eggs and water.
  2. Core apples and slice very thin. Chop pieces that don’t slice.
  3. Melt butter and turn to high, so that a drop of water “spits” when it hits the butter
  4. Dip apples in batter and drop into pan. Fry separately.
  5. When the slices are gone(or if you’re using cherries) mix the bits into the batter and fry like a fritter. Cherries should be 3-5 to a clump.
  6. Each pan takes about 5 aves before it floats and another 5 before it should be flipped…then 10 more and pull out with a slotted spoon. …. (How period of me…but I didn’t have a stopwatch. These are *fast* and do not need to brown to be done. An Ave is between 15 and 20 seconds.)
  7. Sugar the tops with toast sugar, if you have it, or regular sugar. Confectioner’s melts too fast. (1 pt cinnamon, 3 pts nutmeg, 20 sugar and add a ¼ vanilla bean to the container, let sit for at least a week,)

Original

101 To make apple puffs – Das Kochbuch der Sabina Welserin

Then put flour in a bowl and put some fresh spring water therein. It should not be too thin. And beat the batter very carefully, thin it after that with eggs, and when you put the thin apple strips in the pan of butter, then shake the pan well, then they rise up.

165 To bake sour cherry puffs – Das Kochbuch der Sabina Welserin

Take hot water, lay fat the size of a walnut into it, and when the fat is melted, then make a batter with flour, it should be thick. Beat it until it bubbles, after that thin it with egg whites. If you like, you can also put a few egg yolks into it. Tie four sour cherries together, dip them in the batter and fry them. Shake the pan, then they will rise. The fat must be very hot.

166 To bake puffed apples – Das Kochbuch der Sabina Welserin

Take milk with a little water in it and heat it well, until you can still just stand to dip a finger into it. Make a firm batter with flour, beat it until it bubbles, lay eggs in warm water and thin the batter with them. Cut the apples in circles and as thin as possible, draw them through the batter and coat them with it. Shake the pan, then they will rise. And the fat should be very hot, then they will be good and rise nicely.

Photos from Crown

Miscellaneous pictures

Music – We listened to Ancient FM this week! https://www.radio.net/s/ancientfm

Funnies 

Loren, Anja, Gudrun (V), Amy, Jay, 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 – 1+40 = 41 plus 2 juggling sets, mug-markers, 1 njalbinden needle, 20 powder fort packets, 25 pouches for block-printing, 1 medium pouch, 8 bookmarkers, 5 in-process kisslock pouches, 20 unfinished pincushions, 1 sewing kit (except for bone needle), varnished stuff (124)

Total as a Household = 3870 handed off

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Activities through 5-26-19 Egil’s

A lot got accomplished this week, including finishing some of the “hanging projects”. The Egil’s info is why this took so long to get out. Next week’s report is already underway! Only two of us went to the tourney, but two of us took stuff to Eugene on Wednesday, as well, so that it would be there for the vigils. Anja managed to get to Vesta’s Elevation and took a  new person with her.

One chest partly packed

This week has been mostly cleanup, so far, although we’re working on beads.

  • 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 – 6/16, 7/21, 8/18
  • Winter Feast Date is 2/16/20, 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/

A new Queen in her own Right is coming!

Wassail! Princess Kaylah and her inspiration Prince Trumbrand are the victors of Crown Tournament

SCA Lochac – Congratulations from Lochac to Crown Princess by right of arms, Princess Kaylah and her inspiration, Prince Trumbrand, Posted @withrepost • @ealdormere_sca Wassail! Princess Kaylah and her inspiration Prince Trumbrand are the victors of Crown Tournament!

Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA) – May 26 at 9:03 PMistory making news from Ealdormere!

On Saturday May 25 AS LIV Ealdormere held its Crown Tournament. Eight combatants entered the lists. After an energetic set of fights the finals came down to Duchess Kaylah inspired by Duke Trumbrand and Count Steinarr inspired by Baroness Margaret.

The finals were best of five rounds with matched weapons. Each round best two out of three fights. After four rounds the combatants were tied. The finals were fought with six foot spears. Each combatant scored a hit creating a tie. The hall was silent waiting to see who would score the final deciding hit.

Her Grace struck home and the hall exploded in cheers and many tears were shed.

For the first time in her history the Kingdom of Ealdormere had a female future sovereign by right of arms.

Her Highness Kaylah is the second female fighter to win Crown by Right of Arms in the history of the Knowne World, Duchess Rowan having won previously for Duke Hector in Ansteorra. A number of principality coronets have previously had female victors.

J.d. Johann Shush – “More news from afar! Please welcome the newest heirs to the Middle Kingdom, victor of the 100th Crown Tournament: Sir Seto Gesshuko and his inspiration, Her Ladyship Ynes de Jaen. “

Some of the Madez Cabbage and pumpernickel

Early Week – Amy sent some pix of what she’s working on and those are in the next section. Anja and Loren had a lot of clean-up on Monday, but leftovers got eaten early in the week and packing stuff got going later on Monday. That was a considerable job, because the labeling had to be done, as well.

It turned out that the cabbage dish, with a little salt added and ham cut over the top is *really* good. Dunno how period that is, but it was tasty!

Amy’s Projects – “Mug markers being made and I’ve gotten bone needles for nalbinding.” There’re also the cords from last week.

Cookery – On Monday we decided that the fig cheese just wasn’t going to work and dumped it.

That was also the night that vigil foods that were ready got properly packed for the trip to Eugene.

Tuesday was more of that and a couple of scalded milk cheeses to replace the fig rennet, plus sending “care packages” to Jay and Sash, since they couldn’t make the potluck.

So we got the marzipan packed, and the rummy cherries for Vesta and then started making cards for each and finding the serving dishes and making labels for everything. It took hours. Thankfully, we could get the last of the cookery done at the same time, getting the eggs boiled for pickled ones.

Anja’s take (Tuesday night) – I got a nap, then did some organizing and

In the last stage of molding/draining/spicing

then started cooking again. The eggs were done and in the fridge at about 1/4 to 2, and then I started milk for another cheese. By 3, one of the cordials was in the last stages of filtering and the milk was close to temp. By 3:30, the cordials were done, except for standing time, but the milk still wasn’t there! At 3:45 the milk was finally close enough to temp to hit it with the vinegar. I got some of the curd into a mold and spiced and then covered the rest to let it stand a little. That got finished around 5am. I found some of my boxes and started packing. The last cheese was in the mold at 6:40, and I started peeling eggs. Eventually those were in the jar with the pickle and spices and I went to bed.

Wednesday – Anja’s take – One thing after another went sideways until even allowing 3 times the amount of time to finish that I had expected to need, took double that! We didn’t get out the door until 5pm, two hours late. We had to get everything labeled and packed and iced and then serving dishes (which didn’t all get labeled, I figured out when we were on the road), then to make sure ingredients cards and packing lists were printed.

Loren and I were both really tired, already, and then we needed to get on the road. We figured out, once we were heading south down the coast that part of the problem was that neither of us had eaten properly. McD’s doesn’t count as “properly”, but at least it wasn’t going to upset our stomachs. We nibbled fries all the way from Florence up the river to Mapleton and didn’t start on the burgers until we were pretty sure everything else was going to stay put.

Loren was doing ok by the time those were gone, so he told me to get a nap. I woke, startled, as we were crossing Fern Ridge Reservoir…. and then we discovered that the google map directions that we had…. Well, they sucked…. There was one spot where we were supposed to turn right, but the directions said to go two more miles to the traffic circle and take the 3rd exit… well, that didn’t make sense so we went another 7 miles out and then the same back, through the traffic circle and back… and found the place where we were supposed to turn right and did…. which meant a couple more miles in the wrong direction and back…. It turns out that the “3rd exit” meant that we were going back the way we came and needed to turn left…. Oi…. well, we finally found it, even if Iurii was starting to worry about us.

We got the stuff offloaded and headed back. We had to get gas there instead of in Florence because of the “detour”. We chatted all the way up and over the Coast Range down through Mapleton and into Florence, just whatever was at the top of our minds, and then on up 101 home. The Heceta Head light was amazing as usual, and we stopped to tend the birds, but we just collapsed when we got home.

Thursday – Worked on cleanup.

Saturday – Made a pease pottage to use up the rest of the vegetables that didn’t get pickled.

Cordials – These went to the event, but never got to the judging. At the current time, they’re still in Eugene.

Sundials, etc. – Loren concentrated this week on bamboo for cups and beads. First, it had to be fetched, then trimmed, then cut so it would dry, then the small branches trimmed down and then trimmed to bead size. Now, everything has to dry and then we’ll be starting some smoothing and shaping.

Sewing – Anja went down with a migraine on Thursday, so she got a couple of projects finished, and couple kicked a little farther down the road.

Sewing Workshop – Was just Anja, so she kept going on the birth sampler and sorted out some things so she would have a project with her on Sunday.

Largesse/Raffle Prizes – This started getting worked on Thursday and continued through Saturday night. The juggling balls finally arrived on Saturday, so we got some sets made up. …and none of these pix turned out. What we ended up with (two finished on site!)

  • Tissue cover
  • Pin keeper
  • marzipan
  • hanging pincushion
  • 6 lucet cords
  • kisslock pouch
  • 2 woodbutters

Herb Bunch – Was just Anja because of the holiday. Worked on bamboo. Loren fetched it and Anja started taking off the extra branches. This will be cut up into cups and other containers, once dry. Pix are above.

Everything else this week was tending and watering.

Project Day – Was just Loren, since Anja and Susanne were at Egils. He worked on bamboo for beads. (pix above)

Egil’s Trip – Anja

This was an amazing day. Susanne had never been to an event and offered to drive, so that I could get to Vesta’s Laurel Ceremony. We headed for Lynx Hollow part, south of Eugene at 6:30am, yawning and swilling coffee that Loren made for us. I had a bag with volunteer raffle things, my sewing, another bag of mundane stuff, a basket of (mostly) food, but some goodies that needed to go to people, my walker basket with mugs, goblets, etc. and my walker. We came home with that plus the two very heavy coolers that had gone to the vigils!

We chatted all the way there and it was a lovely drive, and for once, the google map directions were good! I got dropped at Gate after we signed in and Suzanne got directions to parking. She had quite an adventure getting back, since it was a very long walk and a not-well-marked trail.

The wonderful little spice bag tokens

By the time she re-appeared I had found the spot to park my stuff, talked to a number of people there, gotten some goodies from a friend, and started laying out our volunteer raffle things. At that point I got to watch Vesta’s procession assemble and the coats fly off at the last second (those dressed Minoan were *cold*!) and then they headed into court. I grabbed my walker and went around to the side so I could watch from there, and that’s where Susanne found me.

It was a lovely ceremony and the various bling was amazing. Hearing Vesta speaking in Greek (although my hearing garbled in enough that I thought it was Latin!), responding to the heralds prompting, for vows and such was wonderful. There are lots of pictures over on Facebook. I only have a few.

After the ceremony we went back over to the info tent, which had a good view of the tourney field. Susanne is a people watcher, like me, so we were quite entertained. I kept filling her in on what was going on and why and introducing her to people.

I kept getting hugged, not just when I found people to give their goodies to, but when people like Vesta and Turk found me, to thank me for the vigil foods, etc. The ladies who ran those two vigils also stopped by to thank me not just for sending them, but for making sure that there were good lists of what stuff was there and ingredients cards for the various dishes.

I had remembered, finally, to take the two pouches for Turk and he kinda got tears in his eyes, looking at them, and came back to hug me a couple more times after that.

Susanne and I watched the Egil’s tourney, truly not comprehending much of it because the heralds were yelling in the other direction, toward the thrones, and I was finishing a pincushion and a kisslock pouch for the volunteer raffle, so I wasn’t watching.

We took awhile to go over to the A&S display and talk to people. Perennial Kale, watering devices, chutney, woodcarving, girdle books, arrows, Shakespeare and block-printing and I was satiated with geekery. I got to talk to Temperance for a little and Vesta as she flew past and found some new questions on blockprinting that I got satisfied later when the person whose display it was walked past.

The rapier fighters got started and we watched part of that, but I got distracted when one of the teachers for a rather popular class didn’t show and Judit and I taught an impromptu class on Persona. I also got a chance to talk with one of the Order of Valiance proponents to find out what the current thinking is on that.

By the time I got back to the info tent I was wearing kinda thin, and when Susanne suggested leaving at 4pm I told her that was a good idea. I took a few minutes to head for the biffies and on the way back found Foggy in the Pastiche booth. She’s starting to sell down her inventory so we’re looking at the end of an era, there. <sigh>

After that I hunting around, re-packed and after Susanne went off on the trek to the parking I found some helped and got everything that I had brought, plus the two heavy, heavy coolers, back down the muddy hill to the pick-up area.

We were both pretty tired, but Susanne asked me to give her the short form of the persona class, so I did…in long form… 🙂 …since the class was an hour and we had 2 1/2 to get home.

We pulled in at 6:30 or so, offloaded, Susanne headed home and after I had told Loren in short form whatall we’d been doing I fell into bed and slept until 1:30pm!

So I got only a few pictures, but there are lots on Facebook, really nice ones. Maybe I can add some in here, later.

…and here are a few, mostly by Marian Harris from Vesta’s vigil and then one of the step-up.

Miscellaneous pix

Music

Tudor and Renaissance Music vol.3 (1450-1600)

Music:

Germany: Courante /Dance Music of Erasmus Widemann: Anna-Sophia-Anna Margaretha-Johanna Margaretha/Tanzen Und Springen – Musica Antiqua (0:00)

  • Branle de la Guerre – Jeremy Barlow & The Broadside Band (8:35)
  • My Lady Carey’s Dompe – Eduardo Paniagua (10:37)
  • Mille Regrez – Josquin de Prez (15:03)
  • Greensleeves – Sharon Lindo & Matthew Spring (19:12)
  • If Ye Love Me – Rutter, John (21:37)
  • Gervaise: Branle Simple 22 – Jordi Savall (23:46)
  • Gervaise: Branle De Bourgoigne 23 – Jordi Savall (25:28)
  • Gervaise: Branle De Bourgoigne 17 (Gervaise) – Jordi Savall (27:09)
  • Danza de los Moros – Conjunto Pro Musica de Rosario (29:04)
  • Dansereye: Vier Branlen/Fagott/Schafertanz Ohne Fels/Nachtanz – Cristian Hernandez Larguia & Conjunto Pro Musica De Rosario (30:06)
  • Hoboekendans (Cromwell at York Place) – Claire Van Kampen (34:58)
  • Bassadansa (The Feast at Calais) – Claire Van Kampen (36:58)
  • Tandernaken (Henry and Anne’s Court) – Claire Van Kampen (38:22)
  • Ce Qui Souloit (Court Masque) – Claire Van Kampen (40:42)
  • Chiaranzana (Anne’s Last Supper) – Claire Van Kampen (42:29)
  • Quanto Sia Lieto il Giorno – Philippe Verdelot (45:26)
  • English Dances Of The Middle Ages – Group Of Antique Instuments Diabolus (46:47)
  • Queen Elizabeth Her Galliard – Various Artists (51:24)
  • Helas Madame – Henry VIII (53:44)
  • Quand Je Bois Du Vin Clairet (Tourdion) (Anónimo) – La Capella Reial De Catalunya, Hespèrion XXI, Jordi Savall (56:20)

Notable Composers: Josquin Des Prez (1450-1521) Philippe Verdelot (1480-1532) Hugh Aston (1485-1558) Henry VIII of England (1491-1547) Thomas Tallis (1505-1585) Claude Gervaise (1525-1583) Thoinot Arbeau (1519-1595) Erasmus Widmann (1572-1634)

Links

Funnies 

Things to be delivered to Egils

  • 2 entries for cordials contest
  • Ink
  • Turk pouches (2)
  • Alexander mushroom spice.

Turk vigil food

  • Black bean pickle
  • white bean pickle
  • Mushroom pickle
  • Onion pickle
  • Dilly beans
  • Potted Ham
  • Mixed veg pickle
  • Pickled eggs
  • Dill/Onion Cheese
  • peacock pic frame for Turk

Vesta vigil food

  • Red bean pickle
  • Garbanzo bean pickle
  • Watermelon pickle
  • Potted Cheese with bacon and shallots
  • Dilly beans
  • Asparagus pickle
  • Marzipan
  • Utopenci
  • Mustard, Caraway, Horseradish Cheese
  • munchie box for Vesta

Largesse box & raffle stuff to go with on Sunday.

  • Tissue cover
  • Pin keeper
  • marzipan
  • hanging pincushion
  • 6 lucet cords
  • kisslock pouch
  • 2 woodbutters

Anja, Loren, Amy (V), Jay (V), Sasha (V), Susanne

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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 – 1+40 = 41 plus 20 powder fort packets, 25 pouches for block-printing, 1 medium pouch, 8 bookmarkers, 5 in process kisslock pouches, 20 unfinished pincushions, 1 sewing kit (except for bone needle), varnished stuff (124)

Total as a Household = 3870 handed off

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Activities through 5-19-19 Potluck

House Capuchin Shield2All Hail the new Heirs! Duke Morgan Claymore and Duchess Livia!

Potluck week is always interesting and we’re starting test dishes for next winter’s feast again! That, on top of the vigil foods that have to be ready to be delivered on Wednesday took up a lot of this week.

A couple of the test dishes didn’t get done for the potluck, so that’s this week, along with a trip into Eugene on Wednesday to drop off the vigil goodies, etc. The week’s meetings ought to be on time, although on Sunday Anja is going to be

So done that it’s tearing apart!

at Egil’s for Vesta’s elevation.

  • 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 – 6/16, 7/21, 8/18
  • Winter Feast Date is 2/16/20, 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 – There was enough of a “food frenzy” late Sunday to create a *lot* of clean-up on Monday! The dehydrator was still going, too, so the mushroom spice got finished Monday evening (it takes grinding). ….and then we realized it still didn’t have horseradish, so that got finished on Wednesday when the powdered horseradish arrived in the mail.

Cookery – A couple of interesting recipes showed up in feast research. One is for “pickled chicken”, which made Anja laugh and say, “Oh, I *gotta* do that one!”. It’s not so much pickled as sweet and sour, but it’s funny, still, considering how many pickles she does. 🙂

about 2/3 cooked

The other chicken, that got done for the potluck as a test, is a chicken roasted with mace and cinnamon and lemon zest. Anja decided to “steam roast” it in a crockpot, since the original was cooked in a bladder. Cooking bags might have been an option, too.

Translations are hard to come by, apparently, and google translate does an horrible job….I thought it was bad in Czech and Russian!

Tuesday night was a big cooking night. We started with a scalded milk cheese with dill and onion, then went to do utopenci and discovered that the onions had been used up. So potted ham was next. …after that we had to figure out where the grater blade for the food processor had gone, so we could start the potted cheese. The scalded milk cheese (1st batch) was in the mold at 2:30. By 4 am utopenci was ready for pickling broth, but ham broth was still going and we started putting things back into the fridge.

Utopenci, pickled sausage with onion and mustard, capers and allspice.

On Wednesday a bunch of spices and herbs that we’d ordered showed up, which mean that Anja was able to finish the mushroom spice and some of the other things that required powdered horseradish.

On Thursday the utopenci pickle got finished first and then pea flour got made in the food processor. We were trying to do marzipan but couldn’t figure out where the confectioner’s sugar went. Next up was potted cheese, because of that, and we had finally found the grater blade. We also set up the fennel dish for the potluck, because the fennel bulb was starting to brown. The bacon took awhile to cook, but the shallots were ready when that was done. The potted cheese is *really* tasty this time. …and we found the confectioner’s sugar in a really strange place….

The Madez Kraut got worked on. Chopping and turnip done.

On Saturday several batches of marzipan, a set of blanched fig leaves kept in rum (for wrapping cheeses) and fig rennet cheese got worked on.

By Sunday morning it wasn’t curdling….

Sewing – Progress on the birth sampler – Pic on Project Day – No one for the workshop.

Sundials & needles – Loren’s back to doing needles and fids of bone and there was a weirdie on Sunday with one. – Pic on Project Day

Herb Bunch – A lot of plants got extra potting soil during the week and a sprouted potato that had rolled behind the bin got put into the dirt, along with a bunch of veggie ends. Some starts from the jade plant went into pots and a small flower into Anja’s fairy garden. Otherwise it was all watering and tending during the week.

No one was in for the workshop on Saturday.

We harvested on Sunday for the potluck foods. (see below)

Crown Tourney 

Project Day – …started with the cheese, which hadn’t curdled. We added more fig twig and reheated and then let it sit. Anja went out to work on her plants. Some of the harvest went into

Watercress, ham, butter on plain home bread

sandwiches >>> and garnish and others went into the Kaltes Kraut. Loren was fighting with a pumpernickle/rye recipe. He kept complaining that the dough was too dry.

Eventually, the chicken was in and Loren headed for Newport to pick up the cherries. Once he was back he got the pumpernickel baked. He says that he thinks that the recipe wasn’t quite right (and it got tough on the bottom) because he was using a convection oven, rather than a regular one. He’s going to try the next one at 350F instead of 400. It was *really* tasty, though! …and that’s a *nice* crumb! The crows got the crusts and they were quite appreciative. 🙂

After that we alternated cooking and carving. Loren had a needle, Anja is working on a peach pit basket. Loren ended up practically having to take the sofa apart when the needle decided to take off on its own and vanish. He never did find it, so he cut a new piece and started on that.

Potluck Menu 

Starters

  • Dilly beans
  • Mixed bean pickles
  • Mixed veg pickle
  • Potted Cheese
  • Pumpernickle Bread & Butter
The first course
Fennel cooked in wine

Main course

  • Chicken with Lemons
  • A madez krawt (Cabbage, turnip, leek with honey, mustard and cumin)
  • Fennel in wine (not served)

Afters

  • Comfits
  • Marzipan
  • Apple puffs (not made this time)

Recipes

Chicken with Lemons

Ingredients

  • Whole chicken
  • Salt
  • Mace
  • Cinnamon
  • Lemon or lemon zest.
  • Sprinkle of beef bouillon

Method

  1. Take a whole chicken and wash it.
  2. Salt the inside and sprinkle in and out with mace and cinnamon.
  3. Put it into a crockpot that barely fits it, so it’s standing on end with 1/2 cup of water and let cook on high, basting regularly inside and out to get the mace, cinnamon and salt all over it. Move the bird occasionally so that it doesn’t stick to the pot.
  4. When it is up to 155F, baste one more time and sprinkle it with lemon zest.
  5. When it reaches 165, turn off the pot, take off the lid and let it stand for 10 minutes before you lift it out, then serve.

Anja’s note – Aside from the jets of cinnamon that inundated the interior of the bird and overwhelmed the other flavors, I wasn’t quite happy with this one. The overwhelming cinnamon made some of the meat bitter, and the taste, overall, wasn’t much different than any baked chicken. It also took 7 hours to completely come up to temperature in the crockpot. You couldn’t taste the lemon at all.

The other thing was that my thrifty Czech peasant soul was very unhappy at having to toss the drippings and carcass rather than making soup, but the stuff left in the crock was horrible-tasting, so I didn’t even try.

We’ll try this dish again, with a better mix of spices and add some lemon juice to the whole. We might also try it as chicken parts, rather than a whole bird, pretty much starting at the point where in the original you take it out of the bladder and add the lemon.

201 How to prepare a capon with lemons – From Das Kuchbuch de Sabina Welserin

First take a capon, which should have been stabbed two days before, in this way it becomes tender. When it is cold, let it freeze and pluck it beforehand, When it is not cold, it should not be plucked before it is needed. Afterwards wash it clean and put it in a thoroughly clean ox bladder and tie it up well with raffia, so that no water can get inside. And salt the capon inside and put some mace and cinnamon thereon, after that put it into a pot and fill it with water and let it cook until it is done. Afterwards take the capon of the bladder along with the broth. And remove the wings, thighs and heart and lay it in a dish and cut two lemons into very thin slices and put them all over the capon and pour over it the capon broth which was in the bladder. If there is not enough, one can also pour a good meat broth over it. And set it over the heat and cover it with a bowl and let it cook, not too long, or else the broth will become bitter from the lemons. When it is ready, one should serve it. It is a good dish.

A Madez Krawt – from MI 128, fol. 325V-326R

Ingredients

  • Small head of cabbage
  • 1 turnip
  • 1 leek
  • A double handful of turnip greens (plus other greens)
  • 1 cup wine
  • 2 Tbsp ground yellow mustard
  • 1 Tbsp honey
  • a good shake of ground cumin
  • fennel greens (an 1/2 handful)

Method

  1. Peel and chop turnip.
  2. Put in a large pot and boil until soft.
  3. Chop cabbage and other greens
  4. Add to the pot and when cooked, drain and let cool.
  5. Heat the wine to boiling to drive off the alcohol.
  6. Take off the heat.
  7. Add honey and stir until mixed.
  8. Add mustard and cumin and stir well.
  9. Pour over vegetables, toss and let cool.
  10. Serve cold.

Anja’s Note – We actually ate this warm. We tried it on Monday, cold. It’s an interesting flavor combination, rather a sweet and sour. It needed salt, though, and I actually prefer cabbage to be buttered. We are talking about trying this again with just turnips and the greens to see how it does. BTW the “Madez” which google translates as “Canned” my grandmother’s german neighbor would have called, “keeper cabbage”. This one wouldn’t keep, though, so I’m not sure what up with that.

A madez krawt – Wildu make a move, So seud white herb hawbter and nym czway tail seniff and ain third tail honey and the same prue make by another with wine and a kumy and anis enough and put daz underneath a soaked and therefore give it cold. So magstu piessen can do synonymous, just daz you dye dye * boiled scholt with the wurcz and with the draw, and even then give it so cold.
* M. Lexer: Mhd. Handwörterbuch: bie ჳ en-blat stn. leaf of the white turnip

“Made” cabbage – If you want to make canned cabbage, then cook white cabbage heads. Take two parts of mustard and one part of honey, mix this liquid with wine, season enough with cumin and anise, put the boiled cabbage in it and serve it cold. In this way you can also prepare white turnips, but you should cook the turnips with leaves and roots. Serve it cold as well .

Miscellaneous pix

Music

  • Ronde “Wo Bistu” 0:54
  • Innsbruck Ich Muß Dich Lassen 2:27
  • Canzona “La Maggia” 3:40
  • Je Prens En Gre La Dure Mort 2:26
  • Susanne Un Jour Cantus Firmus 1:22
  • Chanson À 5 2:25
  • M. Buctons Galiard 1:52
  • Canzon Sopra Susanna 2:58
  • Ach Gott Wem Soll Ich’s Klagen 2:00
  • Gallicium 1:55
  • Susanne Un Jour 2:35
  • Almande “Et D’ou Venez Vous Madame Lucette” 1:12
  • Almande (Lorayne) 2:00
  • So Trinken Wir Alle 1:30 [Chorea] 1:32
  • In Te Domine Speravi 4:06
  • [Chorea] 0:48
  • Ce Qui M’est Deu Et Ordonné Chanson À 4 0:55
  • Gaillarde 1:00
  • A Pavan 3:18
  • Tresves Damours 1:08
  • Basse Dance “Mon Desir” 1:26
  • La Pastorella Si Leva 1:52
  • Ricercar Del Primo Tuono Alla Quarta Alta 4:41
  • Spagnioletta 2:24
  • Almande “Fortune Hélas Pourquoy” 1:06
  • Intrada Hassleri 1:57
  • Un Cavalier Di Spagna 1:23

Camerata Hungarica,  László Czidraf

Links

Voynich

Other

Funnies 

 

Anja, Loren, Stella (V), Jay (phone), 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 – 1 plus foodly things, 20 powder fort packets, 25 pouches for block-printing, 1 medium pouch, 8 bookmarkers, 21 unfinished pincushions, 1 sewing kit (except for bone needle), varnished stuff (124)

Total as a Household = 3830 handed off

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Congratulations to Tymberhavene for winning the Tain Bo Cattle Raid, and I understand that it’s thanks to Jerrick (Seamus’ kiddo)! …and apparently a couple of other branches decided to donate their coins to the effort, so that the victor would be from the Summits. 🙂

Pear cordial with more pears added and flipped.

Estella is home and recuperated enough to put up an occasional Facebook post!

Potluck is this coming Sunday. Whatcha bringin’? Louisa is so up-to-her-eyeballs in Egil’s things that she hasn’t been able to put any more in for the feast. Anja’s trying to work on a test dish, still, but there are pickles and cheeses, probably potted ham and pickled eggs, and always Loren’s good bread. We still have containers of the leftovers soup from this past feast, too, in the freezer, so there will be plenty. If you want to do a test recipe, let Anja know!

Hanging to drip out. You can see on drop just leaving the bag.

All other 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 – 5/19, 6/16, 7/21, 8/18
  • Winter Feast Date is 2/16/20, 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 – Anja spent some time translating on Monday, the Cuncti Simus Concanentes. Of course, we were putting things away and cleaning up a bit. That seems like every Monday, whether or not we’ve been doing cookery.

Gogor checked in. He found an interesting report on a Russian restaurant that’s doing “traditional” foods, with a twist. I found the part about the sea berry really interesting. Link is below.

Gudrun checked in, as well. She’s working on outfits and doing interviews, since she can’t go to school this quarter. We facebook chatted all the way to one interview and back, since she was on the bus.

Embroidery and foodly things as usual….

Ingredients for pickle broth

Cookery – Pickles were on this week’s list. A new pickling broth got made on Tuesday. On Wednesday we sorted what we have so’s to make sure they get eaten. On Thursday, with many of the jars washed, we did some bean pickles and a dilly bean for consumption and the next potluck. Not many pictures because we’ve done so many of both!

Pear cordial with more pears added and flipped.

The cordials are being flipped twice a day. Rum got added to the pear (since there wasn’t enough liquid) on Tuesday.

Mushroom catsup was worked on Friday-Sunday (will finish on Monday). Red bean pickles got set up on Sunday, along with dill seed being added to the dilly beans and the dehydrator going on the mushroom spice. We didn’t get to the scalded milk cheese that will be pressed in the mold after being spiced. (dill/shallot/onion).

Anja’s going to put in some concentrated time in this coming week on test foods for the feast. Louisa hasn’t had time, but after the Egil’s stuff is over they’ll start collaborating again. Mostly Anja needs to get the sources organized and then start finding things to try…. or rather whittling down to the list to something manageable!

Sewing – Anja finally did another increment on the little green pouches on Tuesday.

On Friday Aesa came out from Alsea to use the sewing machine. …but she had to start with more ripping and interesting noises… 🙂 Anja worked on her birth sampler and then on photos

Starting to fill in the critters. Look top left.

and newsletter stuff once Aesa went in back to use the sewing machine. We all trooped down to watch the sunset…and then Aesa needed to be bailed out on the cuffs, which Anja promptly sewed on backwards and had to fix and then Aesa wandered around the shop in dread of having to pin on her trim. 🙂 That finally got done and she headed back to Alsea.

During the Saturday workshop Anja kept working on her birth sampler. She’s adding the “critters”, now. She also ended up doing a basic blackwork class for a customer. That was all she managed to work on Sunday as well.

Sundials, etc. – Loren got some of Anja’s peach pits for peach pit baskets drilled. One of them broke in the process, but should stay whole enough to be carved, with any luck. (Pic below)

It’s going. More pix next week.

Herb Bunch – Friday evening we started the mushrooms for a batch of mushroom catsup. During the workshop time we added the spices and discussed the recipe and why it fell from favor once steam pressure canning started getting used. We also bagged lavendar, sage and holly leaves.

Window plants got turned, later in the day. Some are sunburning and drying up from the extra light, so on Sunday Anja and Loren spent a long while cleaning up dead leaves and foliage and moving some more plants.

Project Day – Started a bit late. Anja was hunting music on the computer when Amy got there. Amy brought some lucet cords for largesse and we sat and talked awhile. Anja was embroidering. A plate got wood-buttered. Plants (see above) got done next. Some cookery happened in the evening.

Miscellaneous pix

Music

Lurpakket is apparently a Danish group. Their recordings are about half Renn Dance music, but with vocals as well as instruments and half various medieval & Renn songs. I’ve put together a playlist. On the live ones their sound quality isn’t the best.

An interesting one that isn’t dance music. – Lurpakket – Cuncti Simus Concanentes, Midvinterfestival 2008 – Published on Feb 16, 2008 – Optræden af Lurpakket til Midvinterfestival i Den Grå Hal på Christiania, lørdag den 16. februar, 2008.

Cuncti simus concanentes – Ave Maria.                                                Let us all sing – Hail, Mary.
Cuncti simus concanentes – Ave Maria.                                                Let us all sing – Hail, Mary.

Virgo sola existente en affuit angelus;                 To the only Virgin, an angel appears;
Gabriel est appellatus atque missus celitus.      He is called Gabriel, sent from Heaven.
Clara facieque dixit: Ave Maria.                             In Glory he said: Hail, Mary.
Clara facieque dixit: Ave Maria.                             In Glory he said: Hail, Mary.

Cuncti simus concanentes – Ave Maria.                                                Let us all sing – Hail, Mary.
Cuncti simus concanentes – Ave Maria.                                                Let us all sing – Hail, Mary.

Clara facieque dixit, audite, karissimi.                 In Glory he said, Hear me, Dear one,
En concipies, Maria, Ave Maria.                            You have conceived, Mary. Hail, Mary.
En concipies, Maria, Ave Maria.                            You have conceived, Mary. Hail, Mary.

Cuncti simus concanentes – Ave Maria.                                                Let us all sing – Hail, Mary.
Cuncti simus concanentes – Ave Maria.                                                Let us all sing – Hail, Mary.
Cuncti simus concanentes – Ave Maria.                                                Let us all sing – Hail, Mary.
Cuncti simus concanentes – Ave Maria.                                                Let us all sing – Hail, Mary.

En concipies, Maria, audite karissimi.                  You have conceived, Mary. Hear me, Dear one.
Pariesque filium, Ave Maria.                                  You are carrying a son. Hail, Mary.
Pariesque filium, Ave Maria.                                  You are carrying a son. Hail, Mary.

Cuncti simus concanentes – Ave Maria.                                                Let us all sing – Hail, Mary.
Cuncti simus concanentes – Ave Maria.                                                Let us all sing – Hail, Mary.

Pariesque filium, audite, karissimi.                      You are carrying a son. Hear me, Dear one.
Pariesque filium, audite, karissimi.                      You are carrying a son. Hear me, Dear one.
Vocabis eum Ihesum, Ave Maria.                        And he shall be called, Jesus. Hail, Mary.
Vocabis eum Ihesum, Ave Maria.                        And he shall be called, Jesus. Hail, Mary.

Cuncti simus concanentes – Ave Maria.                                                Let us all sing – Hail, Mary.
Cuncti simus concanentes – Ave Maria.                                                Let us all sing – Hail, Mary.

http://www.myspace.com/lurpakket

Links

Funnies 

Anja, Gogor(V), Stella(V),  House Silvermists(1), Amy, Amor(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 – 0 plus foodly things, 20 powder fort packets, 25 pouches for block-printing, 1 medium pouch, 8 bookmarkers, 22 unfinished pincushions, 1 sewing kit (except for bone needle), varnished stuff (124)

Total as a Household = 3830 handed off

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House Capuchin Shield2A lot more happened this week than over the last few. Anja and Loren are finally getting themselves back together and while gearing up for summer, are also spending more time on projects. Cheese happened and more plant stuffs, and then Saturday’s Herbs Workshop was on spices and spice mixes and Project Day was *really* busy!

Meetings are on time this week, although it’s possible that Saturday’s workshops might get disrupted because of the Waldport Great Garage Sale.

There are a few more pix to be added to this post. Watch for notices on our Facebook group!

  • 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 – 5/19, 6/16, 7/21, 8/18
  • Winter Feast Date is 2/16/20 (assuming that there is one….)

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/

Happy Birthday SCA, AS LIV! Posted in Kingdom of the Middle  Phillip C Reed – May 1, 2017

Once upon a time there was a scholar who lived in an ivory tower. And in that tower lived many other scholars, who spent their time reading books and writing papers about what some other scholar had said another scholar had said *another* scholar had said they used to do in the Middle Ages.

But the scholar of whom I speak was more fortunate than the rest, for she used to escape from the tower from time to time and go down into the town, where she met many interesting people. And some of these folk belonged to a tribe called “fandom,” and they too read many books and wrote many papers, and they published them in loose journals printed on coarse wood-pulp paper. And the scholar, who had some skill as an artist, drew pictures of knights and ladies and elves and dragons, and these appeared in the wood-pulp paper journals.

And in this tribe were two young men with whom the scholar became acquainted; and they were beautiful young men, one dark and one fair, and both with eyes the color of summer heaven. And on a day the scholar went to visit the young men in their home, and she saw hanging on the wall two bright swords and two well-wrought shields emblazoned with devices of heraldry. And she said, “What do you do with those?”

And the young men replied, “WE FIGHT WITH THEM.”

And the scholar said, “How splendid. Next time you practice, I shall come and draw pictures of you.”

And on many a day the young men met to practice their skills with sword and shield, and the scholar covered many sheets of wood-pulp paper with their likenesses.

Then there came the day when the scholar stepped out of her own house into her back yard, and the thought came to her,

“You could hold a tournament here.

“Look! Here the fighters could fight, and here the spectators could sit, and if there were too many of them some of them could stand behind the wall there, safe from random blows. You could do it. You could hold a tournament here.”

And she thought, “How delightful!” But she also bethought her that she had her Master’s orals coming up in two weeks, and going back into her kitchen, she said to her housemates,

“I’ve had the most wonderful idea. TALK ME OUT OF IT!”

And she told her housemates her idea, and they all answered, “That’s wonderful! We’ll all help!”

And so they chose the First of May as the date of the tournament, and they caused to be printed on many sheets of wood-pulp paper the message, “Come to a Tournament–for that it is spring.” And the message was broadcast all round the ivory tower and the town besides.

And on the day, at the stroke of noon, being the time set to begin the tournament, the scholar set foot outside her door, and there was no one there.

And half an hour later, she stepped outside her door again, and there were fifty people there.

Then came Jon deCles in the robes of an Archbishop, and intoned, “Ecce Eduardus Ursus nunc occipite post Christophorum Robinem tump-tump-tump scalis descendens,” and all sang “Amen.” And Elizabeth Pope, Doctor of Philosophy, was named Judge of the Lists, and the knights and squires came forth to do battle, and many brave deeds of swordplay were seen.

And young David the Herald fought so well that Sir Siegfried von Hoeflischkeit dubbed him Knight there upon the field.

And Marynel of Darkhaven, being then but young, had bidden her father Beverly Hodghead to come to the place half an hour after she did, in case she wished to return home; but when he saw the noble company and the deeds that were being done, he hurried home and returned again in haste, bringing the crossbow that he had made for himself. And he fired a bolt against one of the shields, and behold! the point curled up upon itself like a little shell.

And a certain Knight was named victor, and he crowned his Lady with a wreath of roses.

And then all said to one another, “What shall we do next?” And it was answered generally thus, “This is Berkeley. Should we not be protesting something?” And they marched up and down Telegraph Avenue protesting the ugliness of the twentieth century, from which they had escaped that day.

And then, passing by the market, they bought roasted chickens and bottles of wine, and returning to the field of the tournament, they built a fire and sat around it, eating chickens and drinking wine and telling tales, long into the night.

And the scholar, sitting by the fire, said to herself, “This happened. This really happened. The Last Tournament *wasn’t* in 1839, it happened today; and someday, years from now, I shall be able to tell my grandchildren that once, just once long ago, this happened.”

But the man seated beside her was saying to the man next to him, “Now, *next* time I’m going to hit him like THIS!”

Dorothea of Caer-Myrddin
Dorothy J. Heydt
Mists/Mists/West/UC Berkeley
Argent, a cross forme’e sable
PRO DEO ET REGE

Early Week – The new plantings all got watered on Monday, but the cheese kept getting put off. We finally got that far on Tuesday, (pix below) but it wasn’t until Friday that we actually got to have the palacinky (pancakes stuffed with cheese and fruit).

Cookery – Anja’s been wanting to do thin pancakes rolled around cheese and fruit (palacinky) for awhile. It’s a “traditional” Czech dish with only mentions in very late period, but they’re yum, anyway, so a sweet “scalded milk” cheese was indicated, rather than the more sour tvarog.

So, the cheese was finally started at 8:05pm on Tuesday. We added 1/2 a vanilla bean, and a bunch of ground nutmeg, with more of that added at the last minute. Cider vinegar was the “coagulant”. We used brown sugar for a sweetener.

The worst part of making this style of cheese is that it has to heat slowly, so it seems to take forever. At 9:30- it was still only up to 115F. We’d go back every 15 minutes, stir, test the temp, turn up the heat one more notch… at 9:50 it was at 135. …and at 10:45, only to 175….

Finally, just after 11pm it hit temp and curdled with a bit of vinegar thrown in, so it got ladled into the cheese cloth and hung by 11:15.

Anja tried some at about 1am, and liked it, but to go with the pancakes it needed fruit and sugar, so that got added about an hour later, shaken a couple of times and fridged.

Late on Thursday (5/2) we started a couple of cordials. Recipes are below for an Herb (more a spice) Cordial and a Pear Cordial.

Friday 5/3

On Friday Anja cut two of the pears, discovering that they were still very hard. She also discovered that the recipe wasn’t going to fit in a quart jar, so they had to find another of the 1/2 gallons, and then that there wasn’t going to be enough liquid. A splash that got tasted also told her that there was too much zest compared to spices & sweet, so that was going to have to get adjusted. …and supper was the pancakes and cheese!

Sewing – Anja got a little time during the week to work on her projects and then spent a block of time on Saturday. (Pix are in the Project Day galleries)

Herb Bunch 

Plants during the week. A lot of watering happened. With a bunch of starts they need to be kept damp and the weather’s been dry. At least the humidity’s been in the 70-80% range. That helps. Anja also asked for help on the “violets” that they picked last weekend around the back steps. It turns out they’re Kenilworth Ivy, not violets. That’s why the strange leaf shape!

Saturday’s Herb Workshop ended up being on spice mixes. We discussed everything from where certain herbs and spices came from to who used what and when and finally made a batch of powder fort.

Project Day – Anja started the day making a playlist for a group called, “Lurpakket”. They’re

20 of the little packets of powder fort, kept in canning jars for freshness.

Danish, doing a lot of “crossover” of Medieval/Renn music with more modern arrangements, but still on mostly period instruments. One of the most interesting is a seriously uptempo version of Douce Dame Jolie, but their version of Horses Bransle is also very good.

Next up was bagging some of the powder fort. We’re going to set up batches of the various mixes and put them into sets for largesse. We got 20 bags out of the near-pint of powder fort from Saturday.

A warped card loom and the gown is behind the flowers

While Anja was finishing that, Loren was working in back to get the table clear for sewing. House Silvermists showed up at 2pm and started in on projects: a banner and a re-build on a gown. We talked a lot about the various projects underway, but also Anja and Wilhelm got going on religious history. They have mutual interests in that in Central and Eastern Europe. Aesa brought in her warped up loom. Ella took pictures for everyone and did a lot of twirling in her cool skirt outside.

The finished banner for camp use.

Eventually the banner and Wilhelm were back in the sewing machine and got finished, all the way to the motif that was machine-stitched on. This is one for camp use and to hang on a spear, so it’s more for the look than for the stitchery. Still, it was accomplished, start to finish, in just a few hours.

The sad remnants of a snack

Aesa and Loren went over to the Chocolate Frog and got some goodies for sustenance: gummi bears, sea foam, jelly sticks and a couple of kinds of fudge. Most of it didn’t last long enough for a pic!

Aesa worked on her gown all day. Most of it was pulling out the side seams, so’s to add some

Pinned seam

fabric so she can move in it while attending to Silent Herald duties. There were a *lot* of interesting noises coming from that side of things, resulting from how long it take to rip out seams, from a couple of oopsies with tearing fabric and the eventual jubilation of being done with that part. She got the fabric cut for the insets and for bias cuffs and did get some time on the sewing machine. Pix will follow on that.

Anja did quite a bit on her sampler and then also started a ball. Nick stopped by for a hug after work and then Amy dropped in for a bit.

Recipes

Herb Cordial – http://www.godecookery.com/begrec/begrec67.htm

  • PERIOD: Modern | SOURCE: Contemporary Recipe | CLASS: Not Authentic
  • DESCRIPTION: A cordial of honey and spices

Ingredients (We doubled the recipe and it fit in an 1/2 gallon jar)

  • 1/4 cup honey
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1/2 cup water
  • 1/4 tsp. caraway seeds
  • 1/2 tsp. whole cloves
  • 2 sticks of cinnamon
  • 2 1/2 cups 100-proof vodka (used rum)
  • 1 whole nutmeg, broken
  • 7 cardamom pods, crushed
  • 3 whole allspice
  • peel of 1/2 lemon
  • peel of 1/2 orange
  • 1/2 vanilla bean, broken

Method

  1. Simmer all but rum for 15 minutes.
  2. Pour into glass container along with rum.
  3. Let stand 3 weeks.
  4. Strain through cheese cloth and leave until clear.

Pear Cordial – http://www.godecookery.com/begrec/begrec68.htm

  • PERIOD: Modern | SOURCE: Contemporary Recipe | CLASS: Not Authentic
  • DESCRIPTION: A cordial of pears and spices

Ingredients (Single recipe requires an 1/2 gallon jar)

  • 3 fresh pears
  • 1 orange
  • 3 whole cloves
  • 1/2 tsp. whole coriander (doubled)
  • 1/2 tsp. ground cinnamon (doubled)
  • 1 whole peppercorn (subbed 1 tsp ginger and doubled))
  • 2 cups rum
  • 2 cups sugar, dissolved in 1/2 cup water

Method

  1. Remove seeds and dice pears. (pears added day 1 & ??)
  2. Put in a glass jar along with spices and peel from 1 orange (avoid the white pith).
  3. Add rum, cover, and leave for 2 weeks.
  4. Strain through cheese cloth and add sugar solution.
  5. Leave until clear.

Medieval tile pics at St Fagan’s (National Museum of Wales), shared via Brick of the Day. …and those chairs are cool, too. 

Miscellaneous pix

Music

European Renaissance music compilation mix (XV-XVI th century) – Published on Oct 3, 2017

Music of the european renaissance (1450-1600) , in a long play compilation mix of 37 songs (77 min.) ; french , spanish , flemish, english and german renaissance music of the XV and the XVI th century ;

Playlist

  1. (0:00) Jordi Savall – Une jeune fillette [Tous les matins du monde ST.] 1:56
  2. (1:56) Eustache Du Caurroy (1549-1609)- Une jeune pucelle 3:41
  3. (5:37) Le chant des oiseaux – Clément Janequin 5:49
  4. (11:26) Entre vous filles – Clemens Non Papa 1:06
  5. (12:33) Il est bel et bon – Pierre Passerau 1:07
  6. (13:40) Je ne menge point de porc – Claudin de Sermisy 0:57
  7. (14:37) Monsieur de Sainte Colombe – Gavotte du Tendre – Jordi Savall (Tous Les Matins Du Monde ST. track #04) 1:23
  8. (16:00) Folies d’Espagne (viole de gambe) 1:02
  9. (17:02) French Renaissance song 1 1:57
  10. (18:59) French Renaissance song 2 2:05
  11. (21:04) Flemish Renaissance song 1 [part one] 1:02
  12. (22:07) Flemish Renaissance song 1 [part two] 1:10
  13. (23:17) Flemish Renaissance song 1 [part three] 0:45
  14. (24:02) Flemish Renaissance song 1 [part four] 2:55
  15. (26:57) Flemish Renaissance song 3 0:58
  16. (27:55) Flemish Renaissance song 2 1:15
  17. (29:10) Spanish Renaissance song 6 1:08
  18. (30:18) Spanish Renaissance song 7 1:36
  19. (31:55) Spanish Renaissance song 8 1:32
  20. (33:29) Spanish Renaissance song 9 1:58
  21. (35:25) Spanish Renaissance song 10 1:06
  22. (36:31) Spanish Renaissance song 11-A 1:11
  23. (37:43) Spanish Renaissance song 11-B 1:08
  24. (38:51) Spanish Renaissance music – Cancionero de Palacio -Entra Mayo y sale Abril 2:47
  25. (41:37) Propiñan de Melyor – El Cancionero de la Colombina 1:17
  26. (42:55) Diego Ortiz. Tratado de Glosas. 1553 (Recercada 9ª) 2:27
  27. (45:23) Diego Ortiz – Recercada II sobre Doulce Memoire – Roger van der Weyden [XVI th century] 2:54
  28. (48:16) Hans Newsidler (c.1508-1563)- Washa mesa 3:36
  29. (51:52) German Renaissance song – Ludwig Senfl (1486-1542) – Es Hett Ein Biderman Ein Weib 2:02
  30. (53:54) J.H. Schein (1586-1630) – Allemande Tripla 1:20
  31. (55:15) English Renaissance song 2:58
  32. (58:12) English Renaissance song 1 3:15
  33. (1:01:28) Helas Madam – Music From The Court of King Henry VIII 1:43
  34. (1:03:11) Renaissance Music – Ia não podeis ser cõtentes 2:13
  35. (1:05:25) Jehan Planson – Bransles de la Grenée – Puisque le ciel veut ainsi – Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien 3:58
  36. (1:09:23) De tout mon couer t’exalteray (Psaume-Palm IX) 4:03
  37. (1:13:26) Jordi Savall – La seconde Estampie Royale 4:05

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Posted 5/3/19 by Joe Cook-Giles on Facebook

Little known historical fact…

Growing ever increasingly frustrated that his wife, Anne, was not producing a much-needed male heir to the throne, Henry VIII concocted a scheme to get rid of the unpopular queen. After effectively creating enough suspicion of her infidelity and treason to the crown, Anne was sentenced to die by the sword.

What most people do not know is that when she was executed, her head did not stay atop the executioner’s stand, but instead was sent flying off of the dais where it rolled down a side alley, hitting an unsuspecting courtier, startling him and making him lose his balance.

As tragic as this event was, it is the first documentable case of a Boleyn alley.

…and J.d. Johann Shush added:

True???? story: At the execution of Mary Queen of Scots, the executioner did the deed and started to raise her head, only to discover that her hair was a wig. The wig came free and the head fell to the ground, much to the embarrassment of the headsman.

So even when you think you’ve taken care of your enemies once and for all, they can still leave you with hell toupee.

Loren, Anja, Gogor (V), Gudrun (V), Estella (V), Herbs Bunch (2), House Silvermists (3), Nick, Amy

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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 – 0 plus 20 powder fort packets, 25 pouches for block-printing, 8 bookmarkers, 22 unfinished pincushions, 1 sewing kit (except for bone needle), varnished stuff (124)

Total as a Household = 3830 handed off

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