Winter Feast 2-17-19

There is more to come on this page! There are some photos still floating around and certainly the cookbook needs to be finished. Keep checking back.

What a feast! We had 18 people and fed everyone very, very well! This was a seven-course feast based on the period books, Le Viandier de Tallivent and Le Menagier de Paris, although there were dishes from other manuscripts from the same era and a few that just fit or had been requested. We dropped a few dishes at the last minute as people dropped out, but the ingredients had already been purchased. …and there are lots of leftovers….

We had a major camera failure during the feast, due to someone hitting the “video” button on a camera that doesn’t really do well with those, so pictures of some foods didn’t happen. 😦 Pictures were taken by a number of folks on Anja’s camera, plus Amy and Jay took a lot. This means that a number of the pictures of finished dishes on the page that this will transfer to, were actually taken at potlucks and other times when we did the trial runs on the foods.

Meetings are 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
Next Potluck – 3/17, 4/21, 5/19, 6/16

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 Hall

Prep – Loren did at least 3 trips fetching things from the shop, which is where we staged most of the foods. He did another trip to Newport to fetch James and some last-minute things and a 5th trip to pick up the foods that stayed at Sasha’s overnight. While that was going, Anja (and then others as they wandered in) first set up the kitchen and sorted out the boxes onto counters, work table, fridge and pass-through and then “decor” boxes out to the main room.

Eventually, James, once he was there, set up the tables and chairs out front, the solar and then finished up the prep on the helpers table. By noon that was becoming the snack table.

Foods for helpers – bagels, butter, fruit, hot spiced cider – Anja got a mulled cider going almost as soon as she got to the site, that had cardamom pods, star anise, nutmeg, whole cloves and cinnamon sticks in it.

Morning Cookery – …started with the soups

Green Bruet (bread crumbs to make sauce)

A lot of prep work was done, getting the crockpots of soups and meats put together, lining things up on the pass-through to be served and matching serving dishes with various foods.

Afternoon spread

This was for 1pm, where the special food was the wrapped sausages which are at the left, then l-r is: water, cheese cubes, dilly beans, olives, fruit, breads and a butter

On Tables – Breads, Potted cheese, Tvarog, butters, pickles, jam, Various waters, sekanjabin
1pm – Served hot sausage rolls
2pm – Added more bread, butter, pickled eggs
3pm – Served Fried Cheese
4pm – Added pickle.

Afternoon activities – Lots of things going on from embroidery to inkle-weaving to calligraphy and lots of other projects!

Wilhelm, Aesa and Ella with recorders and Inkle Looms

Aesa worked on an embroidery project all day.

…and Anja did a short talk on the research behind the feast.

Entertainment – …was pretty much Wilhelm and Estella with others chiming in on the ones they knew. …and they kept it up well into the feast! Both of them sang songs. Estella played her guitar and Wilhelm accompanied on his recorders when he knew the song. It sounded like Wilhelm also told a story or three. It was fantastic! Loren had set up a Bard in a Box and it hardly was needed.

Various people – We asked people to do selfies, but not everyone managed it.

Minnie, proud of being the canine vaccuum cleaner.

Ella = You can see the feast goign on behind her! This is somewhere around the end of the 5th course.

Feast and Miscellaneous pix

Kitchen and Clean-up

1st course – Soups

Applade Ryalle
Cassia Soup
Green Bruet – egg and cheese soup.

Sauces included: Sauce Bob, Garlic Cameline Sauce, Purple Mustard Sauce, Ginger Jance, the onion sauce from the pork roast and the Yellow Pepper Sauce with the fish.

Sauces clkws from bot left: Garlic Cameline, Sauce Bob, Ginger Jance

2nd course – Subtlety

Subtlety – Poulaille Farcie
Golden Dragon eggs (everyone)
Red Dragon eggs (swimming sausage) (not made)
Cumin Almond Chicken (everyone) Sauce
Lemon water

Need gilding

Side

Side (sharpened by Stella)

And the Tallivent Chicken!

3rd course – Pork

Pork with Tallivent onion sauce
Green salad
Honey-Ginger Carrots
Strawberry sekanjabin
Tallivent Pork Roast with onions (just started)

4^th Course – Fish (no pix)

Poached Fresh Tuna with Yellow Sauce from Feast at Talmont
Parry of Pesoun
Sweet Tisane

5^th Course – Pie/Tart

Mushroom Tart
Egg/Cheese pie
Une Faire Tarte (veg/cheese tart)

l-r: Mushroom Tart, Une Faire Torte, Egg & Cheese pie

6^th Course – Sweets

Golden Toasts (not made)
Tailliz
Mint water

7^th course – Nibbles – set out for snacking, after, or to take home

Persian Boobs
Seed cakes (not made
Spiced nuts
Marzipan cookies

Cookbook – Will appear here at some point in the next couple of weeks.

Music

Total of 18 people.

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

ASXLVII = 24
ASXLVIII = 88
ASXLIX = 794
ASL = 2138
ASLI = 731
ASLII = 304
ASLIII – 96+22 = 118 plus 25 pouches for block-printing, 8 bookmarkers, 24 bottles of gall ink, 22 unfinished pincushions, 1 sewing kit (except for bone needle), varnished stuff (124)

Total as a Household = 3802 handed off

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Activities through 2-16-19

Oh, we’ve got a *lot* to do before the feast is ready! This week has all been feast prep. Really excited!

If you’re coming to the feast, the weather should be decent. It’s the first dry or sort-of dry day we’ve had in a week, so things are muddy and slippery. Temps should range from 46 to 33, so there might be ice during the evening and night.

This is for the week leading up to the feast and almost no pictures are ready to go into it. We have too much to do to get ready! …although a few bits of clipart happened.

…and yes, this coming week, the 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
Next Potluck – (no Feb potluck), 3/17, 4/21, 5/19, 6/16
Winter Feast Date is 2/17/19

Early Week – Sorting equipment for the feast ate two days!

Sewing – Only embroidery. Anja found she screwed up and had to pick out a whole double motif….

Herb Bunch – Watering and tending plants was most of what happened this week, other than re-potting a geranium branch that got broken off. Some herbs and greens were harvested for the feast foods.

Feast Prep

Monday was all sorting dishes, utensils and equipment and making sure the shopping list was correct.

Tuesday was the big shopping trip: meats and cheeses and such, but for me it was one of those days when nothing that was supposed to happen got done. Every dish I went to do was missing an ingredient, a tool, or something. The tapioca for jam doesn’t seem to be on the shelf. The fennel for the dragon eggs is buried in the freezer and out of my reach. The mixer has been put away somewhere…. The fridge is stuffed enough that some things that I know I saw in the morning had vanished. A favorite knife isn’t in the block. My garlic peeler had dived out of its place and I found it on the floor today. My sewing scissors were behind a tote that was too heavy for me to move. I sat down to embroider and ran out of floss. The large hank that I’m working from was nowhere to be found until well after midnight…. it was on my desk instead of with my needlework pouch. The hotplate even refused to work when I went to hardboil some of the eggs! It also took me two hours to write up the subtlety directions and Tempus hadn’t pulled out the last of the equipment boxes.

Wednesday the equipment boxes got pulled, eggs hardboiled and the missing pieces found, plus Loren repaired the hotplate…for the umpteenth time. The funny one is that we’ve had this one for years and the brand-new one that we got year-before-last quit after 4 uses and has never worked since…. I printed out some of my recipes. I started with jam, then went on to one of the more complicated butters, then did a simpler one. Eventually the table was clear enough to finally make the dragon eggs. Well, we got the chicken stuffing done and the mix for one set of eggs, anyway.

On Thursday the pickled eggs were set up and the lenten slices got made.

On Friday, the fresh stuff got shopped for, some pickles happened and some baking prep.

On Saturday we were up really early, but we ended up getting moving very late, compared to what I had been hoping. We went directly to Newport and picked up some forgotten sausage. Loren drove us right to Sash’s place after that, off-loaded me and totes and headed back. I started cooking right away. The first thing was to cook the sausages for the appetizers and the bacon for the pie. While those were going I set up an egg and cheese pie and a “fair tarte” which was mostly leafy greens with a little egg and cheese. I also set up some small versions of the mushroom tart, because I didn’t have a mixer and only scraps left over from the first two pies. Eventually, that was all cooked/baked/fridged and I made a batch of the sausage appetizers for Sash and his roomie, and a few of the cheesy olives, then made a batch of the appetizers for the feast.

Loren got back at about 6:30, loaded our stuff and me and we headed for the garden club, where we dropped off the check and picked up the key, then headed back to the shop.

We spent the evening packing everything, and then getting the first load into the car, so that we can just skedaddle this morning. I have to be on-site at 8am and will be starting cooking as soon as I can plug in the 1st crockpot!

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More Snow Challenge pix

by AshleyRose Waltner‎ of Thadeus Waldner/Samuel Waltner

by Chloe Josephine Johnson‎ of herself and Sean Hall

by Decimus Aurelius of himself and Jacomina van Vossenbrouck

by Judy lucy Pogson Mulloy‎ of herself and sister

by Trever Czarnecki of himself and Brandon Scheltema

Music

Musica Reservata ‎– Music from the Court of Burgundy (Full 1969 Album)

Unless otherwise noted, all pieces composed by Guillaume Dufay (c. 1400-1474).

Basse Danse: La Bassa Castyglia (anon.)
Stropha: Vergene Bella, Che Di Sol Vestita
Chanson: La Belle Se Siet Au Piet De La Tour
Ballade: Se La Face Ay Pale Se La Face Ay Pale 2 Se La Face Ay Pale 3
Rondeau: Mon Cuer Me Fait Tous Dis Penser
Ballade: Resveilliés Vous Et Faites Chiere Lye
Basse Danse: La Spagna (anon.)
Rondeau: Par Droit Je Puis Bien Complaindre Et Gemir
Rondeau: Le Souvenir De Vous (Robert Morton)
Rondeau: Pour L’Amour De Ma Doulce Amye Bassa Danza: Collinetto (anon.)
Chanson: Bon Jour, Bon Mois
Rondeau: Adieu Ces Bons Vins De Lannoys

Featuring the voices of mezzo-soprano Jantina Noorman, countertenor Grayston Burgess and tenor Nigel Rogers.

Links – Les feux de Guédelon – saison 2 – épisode 6

Funnies

Anja, Jay, Loren, Sash.

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

ASXLVII = 24
ASXLVIII = 88
ASXLIX = 794
ASL = 2138
ASLI = 731
ASLII = 304
ASLIII – 96 plus 25 pouches for block-printing, 8 bookmarkers, 24 bottles of gall ink, 22 unfinished pincushions, 1 sewing kit (except for bone needle), varnished stuff (124)

Total as a Household = 3780 handed off

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Activities through 2-10-19

Oh, the foods for the feast look and taste *so* good! That’s pretty much all we’ve been working on, this week. The regular meetings that got held (bad weather cancelled some) were all about foods. Spare time was all about feast stuff. Only a little embroidery and working on bone needles even happened. This coming week will be the same, ending with the feast on Sunday.

Dilly Beans, left and Applade Ryall leftovers on the right.

We’re planning two newsletters this week. One should be out Saturday evening and the other as soon as we get the pictures done from Sunday, probably by Tuesday evening, at the latest.

Summits A&S and Bardic was this weekend (picture below) even if none of us got to go, and the Snow Garb Challenge had some wonderful pictures!

Schiz molded and ready to be sliced for frying

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
Next Potluck – (no Feb potluck), 3/17, 4/21, 5/19, 6/16
Winter Feast Date is 2/17/19

Early Week – Feast prep and planning, but in between both Anja and Loren were working on embroidery and needles, respectively.

We heard from people all week about the feast, who was going to make it and who wasn’t.

Sewing – Just more on the tissue cover band….

Herb Bunch – Cancelled because of icy weather. Plant tending happened this week, though and ginger got planted.

The sprouted ginger pieces got planted on Sunday. Yes, that’s a box from a rotisserie chicken.

A batch of things started early in the winter.

Summits A&S Championship – None of us got to go. Temperance is the new Alpine Scholar!

Temperance Trewlove our new Alpine Scholar sitting on her lovely bench. the prize!

Tryggr gets a Silver Sleeve (most inspirational consort)

Anton Ray becomes the Alpine Bard! …and then his phone rang… apparently he turned beet red!

Project Day – Was mostly cookery, but Anja embroidered a bit.

Feast Prep

Tuesday was sugared, spiced nuts, baked marzipan, Persian Boob cookies and dishwashering a bunch of the boxes that foods will be put in for prep, that then had to be sorted.

You can see why they get called “boob cookies”

Wednesday – Set up a tvarog. Did the trial run on an other batch of Applyde Ryall. Finished a batch of Dilly Beans, Black bean pickle, Garlic butter, Italian butter, several lime waters and started dried lime zest. Got the Spiced Nuts boxed. Made one spice mix.

Butters, l-r – Dill/Onion, Garlic, Italian

Thursday night was tvarog, setting up a 2nd tvarog and a dill/onion butter and then making schiz. Also, some grocery shopping and then grocery putting away got done.

Friday – Unmolded schiz in the morning and got butters into the freezer. Managed to drop the pickled chickpea jar onto my foot and broke the lid. The chickpeas that didn’t exit the jar (which was fine, it was just the lid) got more pickling broth and a new lid. Put the tvarog into the fridge

Schiz molded and ready to be sliced for frying

so it could be done in the morning. Sorted the breads and butters and froze. I mostly worked on spice mixes, doing cheese spice, salsa fina, powder douce and powder fort.

Saturday – Finished the spice mixes and did a lot of dishes. Sorted the period spice box.

Finished, but not shaken spice mixes (added grains of paradise)

Sunday – Finally had a clean table again. Pickled mushrooms, first, then potted cheddar, then cooking the rest of the bacon for the bacon blue butter. I re-thought on the bacon ‘coz it got a little scorched, so I’ll do that at some future point. The ginger that went into the mushrooms was sprouting, so the main stem went into the fridge, but the sprouted bits got planted. They’ll go in one of the big tubs once it’s warm.

Later I got the 2nd tvarog done, then set up a chowder (for mundane use) with the whey and veg left over from the pickles, and the scorched bacon where it won’t matter. I ground some dried mushrooms for spice and organized some other things, while Loren did more dishes.

021019 Made of leftover whey, veg and such

Recipes

Potted Cheddar with Bacon and Shallots

Cook Time: 30 minutes
Total Time: 30 minutes
Yield: about 1 pint

Ingredients

2 tablespoons butter
8 ounces bacon
2 medium shallots, sliced paper thin
12 ounces sharp cheddar cheese shredded
1 cup heavy cream
2 tablespoons burgundy (or dry or cream sherry or even dark beer, have done it with all of these)

Method

Melt butter in a pan and fry bacon over medium-high heat until cooked through and crispy.
Remove the bacon from the pan, and set the strips on a rack to cool slightly and de-grease.
Decrease the heat to medium-low.
Toss the shallots into the hot fat, and sauté them until deeply fragrant and browned, about 15 minutes.
Combine bacon and cheddar in a food processor and pulse until well-blended.
Add the shallots and pulse until mixed, then the cream, then sherry to the bacon and cheddar, and continue to process them together until they form a smooth, spreadable paste.
Spoon the cheese spread into a jar or into ramekins, and either serve right away or store, carefully covered, in the fridge for up to a month. Remember to bring the potted cheddar to room temperature before serving, and spread over crackers or bread as an appetizer or starter.

Spice Mixes

Rafaella’s Salsa Fina

2 Ginger
2 Cinnamon
2 grains of paradise
2 nutmeg
2 mace
1cloves

Powder Douce

½ cup powdered ginger
1½ tsp. Grains of Paradise, ground
2 Tbsp. cinnamon (Ceylon), ground
1½ tsp. Cloves, ground
1 Tbsp. sugar

Powder Fort – Daniel Myers

3 Tbsp. ginger
1 1/2 Tbsp. cinnamon
1 tsp. cloves
1 tsp. cubebs (subbed grains of paradise
1 tsp. grains of paradise
1 tsp. black pepper (subbed horseradish)

Cheese spice

1 Caraway
1 Mustard
1 Horseradish
3 Salt

Funges pikld – makes 8 servings (SCA recipe from ‘70’s)

Ingredients

1 onion, thinly sliced
1 cup red wine vinegar
1 cup water
3 tablespoon brown sugar
3 tablespoon mustard powder
1 Tbsp mustard seed
1 ½ tbsp. salt
24 oz ounce) cans whole mushrooms, drained

Directions

Bring onion, vinegar, oil, sugar, and Dijon mustard to a boil in a saucepan.
Add mushrooms and simmer until liquid is slightly reduced, 5 to 6 minutes.
Transfer mixture to a covered container and chill. (It overflows a quart canning jar….)
Drain before serving.

Snow Garb Challenge – This was a fun one! The idea was to get outside in your garb, if you were snowed in.

by Patricia Bostick – She says, “No one said we had to wear it. I’m not going out there.❄️❄️❄️

Miscellaneous pix

This is a picture of the archetypal Angel/Devil-on-your-shoulder, but it looks to me like an airhead getting a re-fill!

Music

Links

Funnies

For The Medieval Kids…

Q – How did the Vikings send secret messages? A – By norse code!
Q – Why did the knight run about shouting for a can opener? A – He had a bee in his suit of armour!
Q – Teacher: Who can tell me where Hadrians Wall is? A – Pupil: I expect it’s around Hadrian’s garden miss!
Q – Why were the early days of history called the dark ages? A – Because there were so many knights!

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Dance, Pizza Knight, Dance!

Sash, Anja, Loren, Gudrun, Brandon

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

ASXLVII = 24
ASXLVIII = 88
ASXLIX = 794
ASL = 2138
ASLI = 731
ASLII = 304
ASLIII – 96 plus 25 pouches for block-printing, 8 bookmarkers, 24 bottles of gall ink, 22 unfinished pincushions, 1 sewing kit (except for bone needle), varnished stuff (124)

Total as a Household = 3780 handed off

In ministerio autem Somnium! Anja, graeca doctrina servus to House Capuchin
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Activities through 2-3-19

Our focus is more and more on the feast, since some trial dishes are not done, even yet. We’re going to try for a baking day this Tuesday and then next Sunday. Hoping for a 3rd one, but we’ll have to see how that works out.

It looks like we might have more serving baskets this time again. There’s an opportunity to pick some up either tomorrow (barring snow) or Tuesday.

Workshops and meetings are on time this week, with a Cheese and Wine on Wednesday, it

Mustard sauce – It’s actually more red-purple than the pic shows.

looks like.

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
Next Potluck – (no Feb potluck), 3/17, 4/21, 5/19, 6/16
Winter Feast Date is 2/17/19

Feast invite! Everyone is welcome! There is some limited gold key available (if you ask) if you bring a co-worker or friend.

All Wednesday evening was putting this up on groups and sending PM’s to those who might not see it.

Various people started answering. Gudrun definitely can’t make it this year. It’s just too far from her new digs. Amor and Brandon are also too far for this year. Amor is talking about next year, already.

Early Week – Anja kept going with the bottle cover, starting with the thorny issue of how to splice the strings. She also printed some largesse tags, since we need to get the box out, so’s they’ll have it for Summits A&S. She switched from the needle-hitching to square knot lace on Tuesday, since the knots in the former were driving her up a tree.

l-r Bottle, needle-hitching, square knots, rest of the string.

Cookery – See Feast section below from now through 2/18…. Final invites went out on 1/30.

Sewing – Mostly has been on hold this week since Anja was working on the bottle covers, but a little happened Sunday evening.

Needles/Sundials – Just a needle this week and only on Sunday.

Working on a needle and covered with bone dust.

Herb Bunch – Worked on rosemary prep. This is a bundle from over a year ago, very dry. The big wood will become spoons and handles. The smaller becomes lighting sticks. The rosemary needles are being bagged for sale. The fresh stuff at the bottom is made up into Brigdhe’s Crosses.

Clkws from the yellow bowl or rosemary needles – Lighting twigs (behind the daffs), spoon twigs, fresh rosemary and Brigdhe’s Crosses. Center is wand lengths and spoon pieces.

Project Day – We quietly worked on needles, a tiny spoon and some bottle cover knot-work, during the afternoon, because we were very tired. Anja got around to some embroidery in the evening.

The fig rennet cheese on a roll for lunch!

On my hand. Today must have been mini-day.

Feast cooking

Tuesday was mustard sauce. We have the purple stuff again. Wednesday was another fig rennet cheese. Lots and lots of planning going on. Shopping lists achieved. Mulling over how to use up things that won’t go into the feast dishes (stems, etc….probably a stew/soup crockpot sitting in the back corner of the counter.) …and working on cookbook and working on cookbook and *working* on cookbook because without that at least in rough form I can’t be sure the shopping lists are complete…and *dang* we still have recipes that need to be tried!

Marzipan – Clkws from top left – ball, squish, splat

After the fig rennet cheese was set up we tried baking some of the marzipan that didn’t get eaten at Tymberhavene’s Yule. We put 3 in a pan (since we were using the convection oven) one ball, one “splat” and one “squished”. The “squished” was a little too hard, but the other two were good, so we’re going to cut the whole block into cubes and bake it as cookies. We also did a trial run on the cheesy olives.

Thursday was the cheese. It was started Wednesday evening, then slowly warmed Thursday evening until it curdled, cooked for an hour, then was poured into the mold and spiced and the ricotta started. The ricotta got added to the bottom of the cheese, instead of being stored separately. After that she sorted the canning jars and then set up a couple of bean pickles. Friday morning the cheese was unmolded and partly fell apart, so it got flipped over in the box and just mashed together.

The last of the whey is being boiled for ricotta.

Bean Pickles

Miscellaneous pix

Judy ‘lucy Pogson’ Mulloy – I found this random photo of a Clinton long ago with Baron Gerhard Kendal of Lionsgate and Baron Ross of Montengarde…the gentleman in white is pointing all the ” separated at birth” highlights.

Music

Rue Des Jugleors: Instrumental And Vocal Music From The 12th To The 14th Century

Artista: Ensemble Anonymous & Claude Bernatchez

Compositor: Anon.

Danse 0:00

Istanpitta Choniciamento Di Gioa 2:44
On Parole : A Paris : Frese Nouvele 8:52
La Uitime Estampie Real 12:01
Sire Cuens, J’ai Vielé : Istanpitta Isabella 13:47
La Seconde Estampie Roial 21:32
Retrove 26:12
Souvent Souspire 29:50
Stantipes : Retrove Petrone 37:58
Homo Quo Vigeas Vide : Et Gaudebit 44:41
Improvisation 47:20
Curritur As Vocem 50:50
Procurans Odium : Div Christi Veritas : Bulla Fulminante 52:52
Tempus Est Iocundum 59:03

Origem Musica Medieval – Tradução Português. https://drive.google.com/open?id=0Bye…

The Ensemble Anonymus is subsidized by the ministère de la Culture et des Communications du Québec, the Bureau des arts et de la culture de la Ville de Québec, and by the touring Office of the Canada Concil.

Links

Merlin in a Medieval Manuscript! – https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-bristol-47062919
Les feux de Guédelon – saison 2 – épisode 4 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyX3RTb3dEM

Updated Pages

Feast page – Of course! – https://wp.me/P8ngGY-1Ls
Cheesy links info – https://wp.me/P8ngGY-241

Funnies

I got permission to use the comment with this. Love it!

Martha Sherwood – “I think the city of Eugene could solve its housing problem by breeding giant snails, allowing them to graze on public lands, making the snails into soup and allowing the homeless to occupy the now vacated shells.”

Anja, Loren, Sasha, Amy, Stella, Gudrun, Gogor,

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

ASXLVII = 24
ASXLVIII = 88
ASXLIX = 794
ASL = 2138
ASLI = 731
ASLII = 304
ASLIII – 96 plus 25 pouches for block-printing, 8 bookmarkers, 24 bottles of gall ink, 22 unfinished pincushions, 1 sewing kit (except for bone needle), varnished stuff (124)

Total as a Household = 3780 handed off

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Activities through 1-27-19

Recovery from two big events takes a few days! We’re gearing up for our Feast, though, coming up with samples of foods and food prep is starting. We’ve several baking days and a couple of days of making candies and sweets coming up very soon.

The invites are taking longer than they should, since the

illumination needed to be re-done. We’re talking about just putting out the wording since it’s getting so close.

If you want to come to the feast, drop a note here, on the House Capuchin facebook group or on the Summits group tagged to MaryAnne Anja Bues Bartlett, or just reply to the invite when those are us.

An awesome ladle that Stella found for us.

So this week was all clean-up, food and some embroidery, plus the needle-hitching that Anja’s been trying to learn. This coming week, we may have a baking day, certainly we’ll be making condiments and maybe one of the candies, and there are always the constant projects. At least we’ll have the workshops on time this week!

Herb Bunch – At Ancient Light, Saturdays, 11am-1pm
Amy says, “Thank you!”

Sewing Time – At Ancient Light, Saturdays, 3-5pm
Project Day – At Ancient Light, Sundays, Noon to 6pm
Next Potluck – 3/17 (no Feb potluck) 4/21, 5/19
Winter Feast Date is 2/17

Early Week – Unpacking, cleaning, putting away, all got done. Stella stopped by on Monday and picked up some of the soups to try. She and Aleks are both going to be able to come to the feast, so we have our entertainment sorted out!

The fabric & thread (even weave linen and linen thread) is from last weekend ( a gift from Marian) and the wonderful ladle is something Stella found. That’s going to be great for the feast. Amy got her book!

On Tuesday evening some soup samples got dropped off for one of the Newport members to try, since neither of the guys could make it to the potluck. We got the other one on Thursday. Amy got a sample of the cassia on Friday…and I didn’t get any pictures….

Cookery – Pickle Broth is going to be required for foods for the feast, so that got done this week on Tuesday evening. We also found another sauce to try, ginger jance, plus Anja decided to take another whack at the cameline sauce that didn’t work last time.

Sewing – Anja kept going on the tissue cover blackwork, getting a long ways when she was feeling too sick to be up and around.

Progress

Cleaned

The back

Herb Bunch – Didn’t happen this week. Mostly what was going on was getting things watered again and discovering that the starts that were supposed to go to the seed swap were either frozen or moldy. 😦

Project Day – We were still digging out and putting away some of the feast serving things this morning! ….but they were things that had gotten “parked” elsewhere over the summer.

… We were supposed to have a home-schooler come for a “class” on making period balls, but things didn’t work out for this week…

We got some embroidery pictures after that (above). Loren had to go run errands and wasn’t back until later. Anja worked on balls while he was gone, getting this one done, hair-stuffed.

Stuffing with a year’s accumulation of combings.

Done! What’s left of the hair is about 1 inch in the bottom of the bottle!

Anja started to try to learn how to use string to cover a bottle using this link. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHKbDGBQnKk She’s done a lot of macrame in the past so figured it might be easier that it looks. …It is, but the devil is in the details, as usual. The start was awful and the knotting process was pretty bad. It got better as she went, but it was a first try. Later in the afternoon pictures got done.

Miscellaneous pix

Natural Dyes colors

– “By the Emperor´s Hand: Military Dress and Court Regalia in the Later Roman-Byzantine Empire” de Timothy Dawson (2015). (Lots more on the new page!)

Courtier and palatial service staff of the 7th century AD The officer wears the dalmatic tunic (a variant of the old manicata tunic), the khlamus with the purple tablia, symbol of his rank, the hood felonion or maforian and the kampagia on the feet , which showed their status within the senatorial class. The service woman wears a simple outfit that endured all the changes of fashion in the Empire.

Zoste patrikia and courtesan of the imperial family of the tenth and eleventh centuries AD. The courtly title of zoste patrikia was a very high title within the Imperial Court, since she was the first lady of company and direct assistant of the Empress. In the illustration he wears a delmatikon tunic, he wears a maforion covering his ears and above it he wears a white propoloma cap adorned with gems. The zoste patrikia was the only woman outside the imperial family that could dress with a parrot (purple in this case) and that had as symbol of its rank a golden thorakion formed by chains in a blade. The imperial lady, on the other hand, wears a blue delmatikon with geometric ornaments and images of birds with golden backgrounds and has as a complement a belt with frets called zonarion. She wears a purple propoloma cap, which identifies her as a member of the imperial family.

Constantine VII Porphyrogennetos (905-959 AD) in an imperial ceremony of Triumph. Wear the triumphal crown or toufa and the pearl epilorikion to match your purple boots. The kaisar, on the other hand, carries the golden spear, while the protospatharios holds the helmet. The latter also dresses the golden klivanion armor as the kaisar, the spekion robe and the turban (fakeolion). The kaisar wears different colored boots, one is purple and the other is black. It symbolizes that it is between the people and the throne.

Empress of the 6th century AD half dressed. The empresses enjoyed a regalia similar to that of the emperor but with feminine details. In the suit (divetesion) of the illustration of the augousta some ornaments are observed such as the sementa (the circles on the shoulders) and the klavoi, it still does not wear the purple khlamus nor the imperial collar (sthethokarokalllon) and has in its hands the imperial diadem (stemma).

Courtier and official of the year 1050. The Courtier wears a white suit of the summer, a shirt (Esoforia) called kolovion but which forms a single piece along with the pants called esoforokolovion. The book of ceremonies tells us both the color and the functions of these courtiers. The Dark Officer is the rhaiktor (Rector-Rhaíktōri) who wears a black suit (Raiktorikion) to play with his cape. It was not usual to wear black, because in the th century the white and gold were dominated in the court, but the black was accepted and aesthetically defined (ta atravatikia, ” the black “, ” the black “). The Rhaiktor was A post created, possibly, in the th century but it was changing over time. Being a farm manager becomes a special dignity (axiai eidikai in the kletorologion of the year 899) and then to be a judicial position in the imperial house in the 899th century and XI. Your appointment ceremony is shown in of. Rhaiktor’s position could be occupied by a noble, cleric, priest and even a eunuch. We also know that your position could be combined with other high charges, such as stratopedarches or logothetes tou genikou. In the lists of precedence to the imperial banquets of the centuries ix al x occupied a very prominent place, right after the magistroi and before the synkellos and the patrikioi. The figure of the rhaiktor disappears from the records after the year 1055.

Mobilization in the th century. C.. a woman collaborates with the army, helps recruit, spy and even watches and maintains order in the city within the police body of la vigla. Theophanes tells us how women served as spies and Archbishop Eustathius of thessaloniki narrates as in the defense of his city there were women with turban (Fakeolion) and military clothing that threw stones and darts from the walls to the besiegers in the th century. The two men belong to the factions of the city (which ended up absorbing others). The man on our right is an auriga of the faction (Green). It has the winner of a race in the track; a silver helmet with golden envelopes and a luxurious belt. His green tunic was called aurgarion. The other is a member of the faction faction (Blue) and is being recruited while enjoying his free time drinking wine.

A Sebastokrator of the fourteenth century, of the imperial family, wears a roukhon that accompanies with a very elaborate tabarion (cloak). The cap is a skaranikon with the image of the emperor. His boots have the double-headed eagles of the Paleologos dynasty (such as tabarion). The other man is a protovestiarios, who wears a skiadion (with the aêr or covers nape) and kavadion very decorated with two-headed eagles and imperial monograms.

Music

Links

Mapping the World – https://www.bl.uk/medieval-english-french-manuscripts/articles/mapping-the-world

Herb Garden for a Roman cook – https://www.thespruceeats.com/herbs-for-a-roman-herb-garden-1762018

Tintagle, a Dark Age Beacon – https://www.archaeology.org/issues/323-1901/features/7195-a-dark-age-beacon. – https://www.archaeology.org/issues/323-1901/features/7195-a-dark-age-beacon

Les Feux de Guedelon, Season 2

Episode 1, Choosing a tree and shopping the forest – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KV5xfRoq9Wc
Episode 2, Felling the tree & the Green Man – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZu7Na0EK28
Episode 3 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLbfcsBdpmQ

New Page

Byzantine Clothing Inspiration page – https://wp.me/P8ngGY-22E

Funnies

Anja, Loren, Sasha, Stella, Jay, Amor, Amy

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

ASXLVII = 24
ASXLVIII = 88
ASXLIX = 794
ASL = 2138
ASLI = 731
ASLII = 304
ASLIII – 96 plus 25 pouches for block-printing, 8 bookmarkers, 24 bottles of gall ink, 22 unfinished pincushions, 1 sewing kit (except for bone needle), varnished stuff (124)

Total as a Household = 3780 handed off

In ministerio autem Somnium! Anja, graeca doctrina servus to House Capuchin
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Last updated 1/27/19

January 28, 2019 0

Activities through 1-20-19 Mid-Winter Feast and Potluck

Cleaning and putting away occupied the early week and then it was all set-up for Anja to get to Adiantum’s Mid-Winter Feast. We had our potluck on Sunday.

This week should see the invites for our Winter Feast go up on Facebook. You’re welcome to invite others! Please let everyone know that we must have RSVP’s by February 10 as we’re doing the feast shopping on the 11th.

Back to a more normal schedule 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
Next Potluck – (no Feb potluck) 3/17,
Winter Feast Date is 2/17/19

Early Week – …was all unpacking and computer problems. By Wednesday most of the things were unpacked, cleaned and put away with the exception of Anja’s blackwork display things, most of which got done on Thursday.

Cookery – On Monday we ground the dehydrated mushroom lees. (Those are going to Alexander as a giftie.) Starting to get serious about feast food. Some of the soups ended up on the menu this week. On Wednesday we sorted the fridge, started a “scraped icebox” soup and got the pickles ready.

On Friday the tvarog got packed, plus some snacks for the day on Saturday. We used the little cheese crock and a paddle knife for display. …and then there’s Sunday… (below)

Sewing – A bunch of mending got done in the early week and then Anja was back to it on pouches. She did several scrap ones and then took the feast ones out and did another round of that sewing on Tuesday (pix on that project page), along with finding pieces of projects and putting them where they belong. She had an idea for a hood that would go with the new surcote, so that got pulled out on Thursday to work on. It got mostly finished on Friday, and then basted during the early morning. It still needs an internal hem on the lining/facing and some tweaking to make that work right, plus buttons and buttonholes.

Tuesday pouches – 3 finished but for strings

Adiantum’s Mid-Winter Feast – Anja

It was very dark as we left home, at 5am Saturday morning. We had packed all but us, pillows and snacks into the car on Friday night. Not being sure what the weather was going to be like we took the route out 20 to 99W. There was a lot of fog, especially as dawn got going and up through the mountains. We stopped in Philomath for some breakfast and then drove through Corvallis, down 99 to Territorial Highway and then turned onto Ferguson to go to the Long Tom Grange. Google maps has some bad milages on those roads. The Grange is as least a mile closer on the maps, to the turn, than it actually is, and I think it was closer to 1 1/2 miles.

Loren offloaded after I found out where to put things and took back off for home. After getting gas, he was an hour late opening the shop!

I got signed in and then got the labels onto our serving dishes that we loaned the crew and found a spot where I was out of the way. Louisa had me fill the oil bottles for the tables and some other small stuff that I could do sitting down.

After that I pulled out my embroidery and worked on that in between watching people setting up, commenting and kibbitzing and looking at the wonderful scenery out the window.

I think Vesta was getting a little punchy by this point! 🙂 Photo by Ayla Roth

Food

The kitchen was beautifully run. Louisa did a *lot* of planning and it showed. Sitting outside but within sight, I was amazing by how smoothly things were flowing. Some of that was omg-Alys-how-can-you-do-*all*-the-dishes-every-time, and some was Isis chopping and chopping ….had no clue that she wasn’t originally on the team. She’s a pro… and then watching Louisa keep it all going. Seriously impressive! Even had a job for impaired old me that no one sensible trusts with a knife! …although after that pic of Vesta…. 🙂

Louisa, the feastcrat and the beef – photo by Marian Harris

A&S Championship – Antonia did a good job of running this. I sat an listened to the judging and the entrants for quite some time. There were some really good entries on this one. Ainslee was the winner.

A&S Competition – photo by Shaina Tyndall

A&S, Ainslee and Marya – photo by Shaina Tyndall

Court – Vesta and Pieras, he was given an award for most inspirational consort – photo by Marian Harris

There were two courts during the day. I got to both. Many awards were given at Principality and

Baronial level.

Other activities – There was rapier fighting, a dance class, a number of people playing games, darts, and general connecting and talking! I had a good long talk about cheese with a guy whose dad is a pro chef and he gave me some resources for the fig cheese. I got Vesta’s blackworked band done and gave it to her. I also got to talk to a lot of people about our Winter Feast and I think I have a final menu.

Viscountess Breaca and the baby bump. Isn’t that a gorgeous gown by Ayla Roth? – photo by Margaret Alexander

Alan the Bowyer and Yseult – photo by Margaret Alexander

Fencers and the magnificent view – photo by Shaina Tyndall

Arwen teaching dance – photo by Shaina Tyndall

…and then the feast was ready! We all ate until stuffed and folks with weird dietary problems were accommodated. Yes, I was able to eat the feast! They served me special versions of the feast dishes and I ate until I couldn’t fit in another bite!

A vegetable dish – photo by Marian Harris

Marzipan, Arms of Adiantum – photo by Marian Harris

Good company, too! I talked food with Marion and blackwork with her senior apprentice, Janet. A bunch of us all talked about teaching history as stories for quite some time. I passed around the remnants of the tvarog and have sent recipes to the folks who requested that.

Marian Harris,With Godwyn Reynard and Janet Lueck.

Lots of stories and songs got told during the feast and I went and regaled the person who did the song about SCA parents at a teacher’s conference, with the story of my oldest getting expelled from first grade for knowing too much history. 🙂

After the feast folks started to pack up and head out, saying their goodbyes. The staff and crew got going on the clean-up with the few folks who were left at that point. I got a chance to talk to various people, embroidery with one, tablet weaving with another, games with a third and gradually sorted my things into the totes and packed.

Finally my stuff was in Alys’ van and we headed back to her place, going to bed soon after. I was asleep between 9:30 and 10pm, which just doesn’t happen! I woke during the night, thinking it was nearly morning (no clocks) when my air purifier quit. I got up and packed and then realized it must still be too early and went back to sleep for awhile, getting up in morning twilight and embroidering until Alys woke.

We had coffee and breakfast and she showed me a bit of the house, which is a wonderful old one with all the lovely dark wood and built-ins and porches. She gave me a couple of Christmas Cactus starts that I’m going to plant this week.

Loren got there around 9am and we loaded and headed home. We had a good drive, but I was pretty sleepy, fading out around the time that we gassed up in Florence, since the weather was good enough that we took the more usual way home.

Project Day – Ended up mostly Anja working on the soups and little embroidery, Loren working on his bone pieces and unpacking.

Potluck – No one said they were going to show for the potluck, so we decided to make it easy on ourselves and only do the test runs on the soups. These were all three crock-potted, but Anja adjusted the recipes, so we know how we’ll do them for the feast. There might be another trial run or three on the Applade one. We made a good meal with the other things on the list!

The Applade had far too much ginger in it, but until the aftertaste hit was really good, although Loren thought it wasn’t sweet enough. The Cassia soup was much more subtle and the flavors blended. The Bruet… that stuff smelled horrible when it was cooking, and the first taste of it pre-egg was not so hot, but when salted and with the poached eggs in it was tasty and unusual. We’re going to use a better parmesan in it for the feast, but I think we’re going to make it ahead of time, so people don’t get put off by the cooking smell. It’s in the ballpark with cooking cabbage…. We have two sets of samples out for folks to try (maybe 3), so we’ll report on those next week.

Clkwse from left – Carrot/Turnip pickle, pickled beans, tvarog, pickled eggs, pickled mushrooms, crock top, and dilly beans

Tvarog, all that was left covered 6 “bread fingers”.

Bread fingers with tvarog and small sausages in cream of mushroom sauce

Potluck Menu

1st course

Pickled egg
Pickled black bean
Veg Pickle
Dilly bean
Carrot/Turnip pickle
pickled mushroom
*dilly beans

Soups – clkwise from top – Applade Ryalle, Green Brewet, Cinnamon Soup.

2nd course

Applade Ryalle
Green egg and cheese soup
Cinnamon soup

3rd course

Small sausages in a mushroom cream sauce
Bread fingers with tvarog

4th course

Nuts and comfits

Recipes – Soups

Applade Ryalle (from Harleian manuscripts) Adapted from https://giveitforth.blogspot.com/2016/10/harleian-ms-279-ab-1430-cxxxv-applade.html?spref=fb

135 Apple Royal – Take apples and seeth them until they be tender and then let them cool; then draw them through a strainer; and on flesh day cast thereto good fat broth of fresh beef and white grease, and sugar and saffron, and good powder; and on a fish day, take almond milk, and olive oil, and draw there up with a good powder and serve forth. And for need, draw it up with wine, and a little honey put there to for to make it than sweet and serve it forth.

Interpreted Recipe 2-3 apples

water to cover
1 cup broth, wine or almond milk
1-2 tbsp. sugar or honey, or to taste
1 tsp. good powder (I used pouder douce)
1 tbsp. butter (for flesh or fish day recipe)
pinch of saffron

(Original instructions)

Cut the apples into large chunks and place in a pot (uncored, unpeeled them.
Cover with water and boil until apples are tender and water was almost gone.
Put apples into a food processor and pureed.
Strain into a bowl.
Add powder douce to the apples
Heat the broth with sugar or honey
Add the pureed and spiced apple mixture.
Cook together until the soup has reduced to the consistency you want, and then serve.

Anja’s version

The apple stuff for the feast will be created from apples harvested, cooked and frozen in the early fall.

1 3/4 cup apple used 1 apple in water to cover
2 1/4 cup red wine 1 cup wine
1/2 tsp nutmeg 1 enough nutmeg to cover the surface
1/8 tsp clove 1 dash
1/4 tsp cardamom 1 shake
Some ginger got in there from the brewet
Drizzled honey to taste and left honey on the table to add.

The apple stuff was cooked, already, so it was dropped into a crockpot to heat with the other ingredients. Honey was added before serving.

Tallivent – Green egg and cheese soup (bruet or brewet) – Anja’s version

Take parsley, a bit of sage, just a bit of saffron in the greens, and soaked bread, and steep in puree [of peas] or boiled water. Add ginger steeped in wine, and boil. Add the cheese, and the eggs when they have been poached in water. It should be thick and bright green. Some do not add bread, but add almond milk.

Crockpot
Parsley, 2 bunch
Dab sage
Dab saffron
Bread crumbs, 1 cup cubes made 3/4 cup crumbs
Dried Ginger cubes soaked in white wine
Dried green peas cooked pureed (used 2 cups water)

Cook all of the above together
Cassia Soup

Grate cheese and add (cheddar? Parmesan?)
Poach eggs in almond milk, maybe? Or water
Add a little cooked bacon.

Cinnamon Soup (based on Bera’s version, mixed with Tallivent and simplified)

8 20 80 Ingredient
4 cup 5 cup 5 qt Chicken Broth
1 tsp 2 1/2 tsp 3 1.2 Tbsp Cassia (rather than cinnamon)
2 Tbsp 1/2 cup 2 cup White wine
1 cup 2 1/2 cup 3 pound Frozen Green peas

Method

Bring all but peas to a boil and taste.
Add cinnamon and salt, if necessary. (Can be saved at this point)
Add peas, bring back to a boil.
Turn heat to “keep warm” until serving

14. Cassia soup.

Cook your chicken (or whatever meat you wish) in wine or water, quarter it, and brown it [in lard]. Take completely dry almonds cooked without peeling, plus plenty of cassia; crush, sieve, and steep in beef broth. Boil well with your meat and some verjuice. Take cloves and grains of paradise, crush, and add. It should be thick and strong.

Miscellaneous pix

Laurel scroll on a pot for a cooking Laurel at Menhir yesterday (Murfreesboro, TN)..in Meridies.

This is the “Faust House” in Prague. The story goes that Faust sold his soul to the devil to do the things he wanted to do. The Devil came for him one night and dragged him out through the roof, leaving a large hole. A starving student came upon the house and entered. He ended up marveling at the talking statue, the soup tureen that was always full, the invisible servants and the incredible library. He became the next magician of the house and the devil got him, too!

According to František Kruml, historian – The Fausto House, actually mladotovský palace (Prague 1-New City, Karl Square 502/40) has not disappeared, but has a little different form today. The house is at the heart of gothic, rebuilt in the renaissance style around 1618 and twice baroque adjusted around 1740 and 1770. Other adjustments took place in 1820 and 1857 and also after world War II. There was a pagan obětiště at the place of the faust house. For the first time there is a mentioned house held by Jan Duke Opavského in the 1378. Records in 1432 he is listed as the holder of Peter’s house, reeve from the house of Because he was a supporter of the “sirotčího army”, his house became one of the objectives of the attack of the master’s unity on 6. The house went through repairs. About 1501, he became the property of jaroslava capon of svojkova, who was beheaded in 1537 for a capital crime. The house was seized, and in 1542, the jaroslavovu was a relative of the relative kapounovi of svojkova, who sold it in 1543 Around 1587, the English Alchemist and Mystic Edward Kelley acquired the house. Before his fall, Kelley transferred the house to his sister-in – The house had a number of other owners. In 1721, Ferdinand Antonín Mladota of solopysk, who was interested in physics and alchemy, bought it. (the first owner of the house with interest in alchemy was václav duke opava, the second was Edward Kelley, the court alchemist of Emperor Rudolf II. . The period in which the house was owned by mladotů is seen as the beginning of the reputation of Dr. Faust, who developed the romantic literature of the 19. th century The last of mladotů Francis fell into debt, and in 1800, the creditors acquired the house. In 1838, the house belonged to a private institute for deaf. In 1856, it was designed to tear down ground objects on the east and south side and build new ones in their place. The construction was carried out in 1857. In 1902, purchased by a general hospital house. In February 1945, the house was damaged during an air raid.

Music

Links

The Oldest Clove – http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/53963?fbclid=IwAR2tpkGKf1QgULm64dLpkf61e7ub1e_-T67gUDkwY-pmatvT9olgpE9npgM
Pick your format – The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened by Kenelm Digby – http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16441?msg=welcome_stranger
5 Objects That Illuminate the Medieval Exchange Between Africa and Europe – https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/trade-between-africa-and-medieval-europe

Funnies

J.d. Johann Shush posted on Facebook. He says it’s anonymous….

I swear, a horse came into the bar tonight. You get used to that sort of thing at this joint. So that wasn’t the weird part. He sidled up to the bar, right beside Thor, god of Thunder—still nothing surprising about a mythological warrior throwing back a few at my favorite watering hole. Truth be told, Thor was so drunk before he even ordered another giant flagon of mead, he paid the steed no heed either. The strange part happened next.
Suddenly, the horse went slack-jawed and whacked his hoof onto Thor’s shoulder, whinnying, “By the Great Mr. Ed, I know you!”
Thor, used to being recognized in public, responded, “Yea, verily, it truly is I in all my splendor.”
The horse continued, “Do you think you could give me the recipe?”
Thor looked a little puzzled, just briefly, but replied, “Thor’s wonderous deeds cannot be reduced to a mere recipe. I say thee nay!”
The horse’s nostrils flared, his tail swatted in agitation, and he said, “By Trigger, they always say you should never meet your heroes. All I wanted to do was get your doughnut recipe!”
“Doughnut recipe? I am Thor god of Thunder!” Thor proclaimed and raised his mighty hammer, preparing to smite the equine offender.
If such a thing were possible, the horse turned red and said, “My apologies, sir. Let me buy you another round. I mistook you for one of the hosts of my favorite cooking shows, God Eats.”
Thor bellowed a thunderous laugh, “Apology and beverage accepted. It seems as if you have confused me with Andhrimnir. Happens all the time.”
“I see,” said the horse. “Well, I guess it’s . . . A Norse of a different cruller!”

Loren, Anja

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

ASXLVII = 24
ASXLVIII = 88
ASXLIX = 794
ASL = 2138
ASLI = 731
ASLII = 304
ASLIII – 96 plus 25 pouches for block-printing, 8 bookmarkers, 24 bottles of gall ink, 22 unfinished pincushions, 1 sewing kit (except for bone needle), varnished stuff (124)

Total as a Household = 3780 handed off

In ministerio autem Somnium! Anja, graeca doctrina servus to House Capuchin
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Last updated 1/22/19

January 22, 2019 1

Activities through 1-14-19 Twelfth Night

Some weeks just get too interesting…. This week is a good example. Everything was focused on 12th Night, from sewing to packing to food. There wasn’t one thing that got completed the way it was planned and some things just blew sky high! Still, there’s food, garb, write-up of the event (what we got to of it) and more for this week.

The main computer where we do all the photo processing and the major part of the editing, not to mention files, is one of the big issues. So…..very few photos this week. They just didn’t happen. ….and this is being put together on a very old backup laptop that’s slower than honey in January… in Sami territory….

Anja was supposed to go to Mid-Winter Feast in Adiantum on this coming Saturday, but that’s looking iffier by the minute. Hoping that this coming week sees some of the stuff getting sorted out! Meetings are at the regular times this week, plus we end it with a potluck!

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
Next Potluck – – 1/20 (no Feb potluck) 3/17
Winter Feast Date is 2/17/19

Early Week – ….was almost all pointed at 12th Night.

Amy chimed in, “I’ve been looking into finding a copy of ‘Nalbinding for Beginners’ book. It hasn’t been re-released yet. I’ve also got only a few lucet cords made for largesse.” She dropped the cords by on Sunday.

Cookery – On Tuesday we got a grocery list together for what was needed for the weekend and started a mushroom catsup to use as a hot liquid “sauce” for some tiny sausages for the Vigil food that we were taking to Seamus’ vigil. We also got several cheeses to cube for that same purpose and looked over the pickles to see what all we needed. Most of those got finished Thursday night into early Friday morning.

Sewing – Anja

Gonna weep a little weep here. After fighting my way through *all* week and into Friday morning, early, I discovered that the smock neckline had been offset by almost 2 inches…. I hadn’t noticed! How did I miss that?!?!?? …but miss it I did and the other pieces (kirtle and coat) weren’t finished, either, and I ended up having to stop. To my way of thinking, since this outfit was due for this weekend, I failed. Going to have to get back at it, next week.

The three fabrics for the outfit, spool for scale.

1/7 All done but the back lacing

1/10 Skirt gores fixed, ready for side seams

Ready to add sleeves. How did I not see that it’s off….

Loren’s projects, Sundials & such – Loren pecked all week at njalbinden needles and lacing fids of bone. He sold one in the merchant booth as he was working on another. 🙂 …but there are more to go, both for Anja & his shop and for largesse.

Herb Bunch – Pretty much nuffin’s this week, unless you count watering plants and using spices in cookery. 🙂 Mushroom catsup… dehydrating the lees… that’s going to Alexander as mushroom spice, once it’s ground.

Project Day – …was all unpacking…. more on that farther down….

12th Night – Friday – Anja

Loren went to take a nap on the sofa, Friday morning, and I kept packing, but was done in about 1/2 an hour. He staggered past me, saying he *had* to sleep, and I crawled in with him. We woke around 11 and got going, running on just coffee. I was still fighting the computer, but gave up after awhile and just went with what we had.

We *finally* had everything in the car and were checking for the last bits (We made one *big* oopsie, but got everything else. …more on that, later…) and were on the road just past 1pm. We stopped in Newport for gas and at Cash&Carry for some things we needed and were heading out rt 20 by 1:45.

It was a pretty drive. We were both so tired that not a lot of it registered, though. We did stop for some lunch in Philomath and then at one of the rest stops, but we finally had to pull over in Woodburn and nap. We were back on the road just past 4:30, which meant that we hit traffic getting to Arlys’ place, but got there not long after dark.

Arlys and I scrambled into our garb, quickly, while Loren was offloading the things that would stay at her place. We loaded her and her stuff and headed for the Red Lion/Doubletree by Lloyd Center.

<<<<< Alys had this awesome sign in front of her booth. It is available here: https://www.redbubble.com/people/whisket14/works/33679546-an-tir-we-believe?fbclid=IwAR3ICsDwPsBCH99l6aacvB3Kfhf26JDCHXfHPWE4g1dyNWgRSGRIxhJnYII

Arlys went in the main entrance and then Loren and I went around to the Annex. We offloaded the merchant stuff and rough-set the display, then I went and signed us in to the event while Loren got the vigil food and caught up to me. Once he was signed in we went to the 14th floor (where all the parties were being held and there were a *lot*!) found Seamus’ and I started helping set out foods and set up.

I got to hold Rori for a bit until Mom was *just* far away enough, getting food, for him to react badly to someone playing peek-a-boo. 🙂 He’s adorable.

Alexander and I talked food a lot and I got to talk to Seamus for a little before the vigil officially started. Wow, there was food! Everyone pitched in and the table and the credenza for the hot stuffs were so full that we were having trouble putting plates and utensils out! My dilly beans and the cheese and the smokies in mushroom catsup were a hit…but earlier than we had planned on heading home, Arlys’ back gave up and we zoomed out, hardly saying good night to folks.

I fell asleep on the way back to her place and only remember a couple of things before falling into bed. Unfortunately, that’s when the “oopsie” kicked in. We forgot my air purifier…. I was up for several hours with a bad asthma attack that then never quite quit for the rest of the time we were at the event. It really only quit this morning (Sunday is when I’m writing this….) which meant that I was pretty miserable on Saturday. <sigh> ….but more on that in the next day!

12th Night – Saturday – Anja (most pix in this section by Alan Roberts)

Another cold, windy day.

Saturday was insane. We knew it was going to be, but for me, having my lungs act up the night before meant that I was in a haze for a lot of the day.

We got up pretty early and headed for the event as soon as we were dressed. I sat in the merchant booth for a bit while Arlys headed off to a meeting and Loren was trying to track down someone from Seamus’ household. Alys fed me a scone and a cup of coffee, so I had something to start the day with.

At 10 I headed for the Embellisher’s Guild meeting, then after a brief stop back at the booth I went to the area where the Challenges were occurring and was there for several hours.

After that I went to Court to see Seamus’ elevation. I’m afraid that I dozed during all of it but Seamus’ part.The wonderful (and really cute) poem that was written for him is included below. I wish I could have heard all of what was going on, but between my distance from the Thrones, the Tablero game going on behind me and my lack of knowledge of sign I missed a lot.

Speaking for Seamus, Finn, by Miriam Pike

Speaking for Seamus, Pieras, by Miriam Pike

Seamus medallion (which also says WOAW!) Made and photographed by joe cook-giles

The wonderful embroidery on Alexander’s outfit by Miriam Pike

Yes, the Silent Heralds we there! One of them was Aesa (House Silvermists) and she was very clear and large enough to see. Some of the others were rather….smudgey… I don’t speak Sign, but it helped when I was really lost as to what was going on.

There was a funny bit with a bunch of beakers that I wish I could have followed and I really couldn’t hear much of the stuff that was said about Seamus. He’s posting some of it, so maybe I’ll have more to put in next week.

And there’s a Youtube of the ceremony here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NA74CJc79_4&fbclid=IwAR3yVnL36kynLM0XokGrNbYa9OQammdfAlyA9UF-sFHTmloB0sjf4mBNcfs

There was a Lion of An Tir made and a Knight, as well.

Then the Coronation

…and First Court

…and Vesta reacts!

Loren sat booth during that whole time and after, when I stopped back near the Embellisher’s display and then just sat. My blood sugar was way low and I was worn through. At least I managed to talk houpellandes with Elisabeth de Besancon for awhile and got Marya her wire that I had promised several weeks back.

I sat booth for several hours after that as Loren sorted out what had happened with the various bits and pieces of things that had needed to get delivered and/or picked up. He was running up and down a lot. Alexander turned up in the booth and we talked food for quite awhile and then he went back up to the room with Loren to get our stuff from the fridge and closet.

Seamus stopped in the booth not long after that. I got to chat with him for a few and got to see the *awesome* mantle that Snorri had been embroidering at Tymberhavene Yule.

I chatted off and on with Alys, which was lovely. We don’t often get to connect at events.

By 6pm we were packed up and heading for Arlys’, since she decided to skip the Laurels’ meeting. Once there we pulled out a new Alliance scroll between her and House Capuchin, and got that signed (the old one has Marcus’ signature and he’s left the House). We had pizza for supper, talked a little, packed up there and headed home. We hadn’t intended to until Monday, but without my air purifier the dander at her place just overwhelmed my lungs’ ability to cope.

We had a good drive home, although I faded out fairly quickly, and then woke at a jerk on the wheel because Loren was fading. We pulled over at a rest area and snoozed for an hour or so and then went on. I watched the moon set and beautiful stars all the way home, but we drove through some interesting fog in the Coast Range. We got in around 1am.

12th Night – Sunday – Anja – Unpacking

Sunday was all mail and unpacking, at the shop. We didn’t worry about timing because we had planned on the shop being closed and no Project Day. Some dishes happened. There are a lot because of the vigil foods. …and there were leftovers.

A lot of what we ate was leftovers from the weekend, but I took some of the Little Smokies (TM) and made a hot dish for supper in the crockpot from those, canned tomatoes, olives and onion, and spices. So, not period…. I also cooked up the rest of the green beans that didn’t go into another batch of dilly beans (which were *really* well-received!) and it turns out that green beans do show up in Gerard’s Herbal, so are counted as period. I gotta look more into that.

We pecked at unpacking, but mostly caught up on mail and then I started to write, finally managing to get the write-up about Saturday done just before Sunday was!

We still have to finish getting things put away, but at least we’ve made a good start. I have to get back to my outfit, again, since it’s now expected to be done and looked over at Summits A&S.

Seamus O’Caellaigh – I also want to thank Paul Cook-Giles for being my Herald! Best Herald ever!!

His wonderful words…

Obedient to Your lawful summons,
And ready to leave the ranks of the commons,
To happy plaudits and resounding cheers,
Seamus O’Cellaigh now appears.

Blessed with a quick and a ready wit
His learning accomplished, a fully packed kit–
His pillbox is full, his fleam sharp and ready,
His book is now finished, his hand is quite steady.

Proud son of the Summits, his skill is wide-famed
And his face with golden locks is framed.
His knowledge of plants is a little scary
And some few know that his toes are hairy.

Born in Clogh Shiúrdáin (Cloughjordan), on the Emerald Isle
He has lived in An Tir for quite a while.
Youngest son of an elderly father
An enormous estate did not him bother.

He makes his way with his skill and his mind
His potions and tinctures are fully refined.
His students are many, his volumes are varied,
And his few mistakes have been quietly buried.

The Laurels are mighty, the Laurels are pretty,
Their knowledge is great and their converse is witty.
Their numbers, alas, are now incomplete,
And you’ve summoned them all to kneel at your feet.

His procession is finished, and he now stands before you
Ready to speak and to swear and adore you.
Here to be Laureled — a mighty fine felly–
I’m proud to present to you Seamus O’Caelligh!

Written and spoken by Baron Giles Hill of Gyldenholt in Caid

Recipes

Mushroom Catsup (plus bonus “mushroom spice”) (This is what we cooked the little smokies in for the vigil.) – This is a product of the 18th century, not period, at least as far as the name. The methods all make sense for a period sauce, though, so we decided to try it after watching yet another Townsend’s video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29u_FejNuks ). Start this in the evening because this needs to sit overnight, and then the dehydrating takes awhile. Makes about 1 ½ cups of catsup and 1 pint of dried mushrooms. Takes 24-36 hours for the catsup and another 12 for the “spice”.

Ingredients

1 pound of fresh mushrooms
3 oz dried mushrooms in water to cover
two Tbsp of salt
several bay leaves (used 5 small)
Small Crockpot
1 shallot
1 Tbsp horseradish sauce, or 1 tsp prepared horseradish, ¼ tsp cloves, ¼ tsp allspice, ½ tsp lemon peel, All to taste (suggested amounts, iow)
1/4 cup of cider vinegar
Cloth at least 18 inches square (best is muslin or old percale, cheesecloth wastes too many little pieces and lets too much through.) or coffee filter
Small bowl (2 cups or so)

Directions

Start with the dried mushrooms, water and bay leaves. Put ’em on “keep warm” in the crockpot to get ’em to re-hydrate. After a couple of hours drop them into a a storage box in the fridge to wait for the fresh mushrooms. (You can do this with all fresh or all dried, adapt to suit.)
Chop fresh mushrooms and put into the crock.
Add salt.
Let sit overnight with the crockpot turned off! Volume should reduce by about 1/3 by morning, after having been mostly full.
The next morning stir it well.
Add the re-hydrated mushrooms
Chop shallot and add.
Add spices.
Stir.
Add 1/4 cup of cider vinegar.
Cook on high for 1 1/2 hours.
Pour into a cloth.
Hang to drip into bowl until cool.
Squeeze hard, until the “waste” appears mostly dry.
Refrigerate the “catsup”.
Dehydrate the “waste” and save to use in soups, stews or as “spice” in other dishes. (Grind well to use as spice, and no, use a coffee or herb grinder, food processors don’t work….)

Dilly Beans

fresh green beans
Pint jar
Pickle broth
1 Tbsp dill seed

Method

Wash your green beans.
Take the straightest ones and cut to fit the jar, at least cutting the ends off the bean.
Pack tightly into the jar.
Musta liked ’em!

Add dill seed to the tops of the beans
Take previously made, cold, pickling broth and pour over packed beans. (This recipe shows up repeatedly in our posts, use the Search function.)
Screw jar lid down, but not tightly.
Refrigerate, at least overnight, screwing the lid down tightly about 12 hours after putting the jar into the fridge.
Eat within a week.

Music

Basketry Links

Funnies

Anja, Loren, Sasha, Brandon, Amy

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

ASXLVII = 24
ASXLVIII = 88
ASXLIX = 794
ASL = 2138
ASLI = 731
ASLII = 304
ASLIII – 87 plus 25 pouches for block-printing, wood butter, tissue holder, 8 bookmarkers, 25 bottles of gall ink, 25 unfinished pincushions, 1 sewing kit (except for bone needle), varnished stuff (124)

Total as a Household = 3771 handed off

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Activities through 1-6-19

12th Night is coming!!!! Aaaaach!!!!!! Loren and Anja are going, and taking merchant goods. Anja is challenging for Embellisher’s Guild and possibly getting into the Costumer’s Guild contest if everything goes well.

There was a lot of progress with the Herb Bunch. A lot of plant pix, this time. Sundials and needles and puppet and embroidery was all going on while Anja was sewing, frantically. …and snacks …and holiday… and so on. (I originally typed, “sew one”, because I’m getting really tired…. )

12th Night means that none of the meetings be happening this coming week. This is the one time when we completely cancel Project Day.

Herb Bunch – At Ancient Light, Saturdays, 11am-1pm – Not this week!
Sewing Time – At Ancient Light, Saturdays, 3-5pm – Not this week!
Project Day – At Ancient Light, Sundays, Noon to 6pm – Not this week!
Next Potluck – – 1/20 (no Feb potluck) 3/17
Winter Feast Date is 2/17/19

Early Week – Got all tangled up in the holiday again, but Anja’s going bonkers, trying to get the 12th Night outfit done. That means Loren is involved, too, since he has to go pull equipment and materials from where they’ve been stashed. On Tuesday she was at her wit’s end since the fabric for the main body of the gown was nowhere to be found! (Gown pix are below in a separate section.)

She was also keeping up with the blackworked band and the tissue holder sewing.

Liqueur cake in the center, then clockwise from top: Champagne, Peas and Hominy in the New Year, Chlebicky, pickled chickpeas, pickled herring

Cookery – We had some Czech foods for New Year’s that are documentable to the late medieval era. Herring pickled with onions in wine is found back to the 1200’s in mentions and an actual description of the pickle broth can be found in the 1400’s. Chlebicky (little breads) a type of open-faced sandwich, are mentioned in the 1300’s and a vague description of what goes on top can be found in the early 1500’s. Unfortunately, any real recipes or good descriptions of these are out of period, but for what it’s worth, Happy New Year!

David H Ritterskamp to Cheapside Tavern of Atlantia – January 1 at 9:18 AM – This one is all, totally, Ingegerd Kastanrazi ‘s fault.

Benevolent Ghost of what a SCAdian Should Be

I was 18 years old, a freshman in college
had just heard of this thing, SCA
And I made me a tunic, from upholstery fabric
with no sides, ’cause I’m new here, OK?
Did the best that I could, fixed it up with more fabric
And I went to my very first event
And the laughs and the taunting because of that tunic
Made me wish that I never had went.
And I sat in the corner, alone, by myself
wishing that I could just disappear
When from far off, a voice, someone I didn’t know
speaking words of encouragement and cheer.
“did the best that you could…with no one to help
…and you did it in time for this day
here’s the fabric I used, here’s the pattern I used
you’ll do fine, we were all there one day…”
And I looked and I looked to see who owned that voice
but I never found anyone, you see
So I called it a name, the Benevolent Ghost
Of what a SCAdian Laurel should be

And not too much time later, got my first suit of armor
and it’s crap, I mean, pickle barrel, you know
And it’s blue and it’s piecework with orangeish cords
And they called me the Battle Smurf, and so
I went over and sat down, tried to fade in the background
’cause people are cruel, you know it
And a guy walks up to me, says “that armor is awesome,
you’d get hit with a log and not know it!”
And he loaned me his legs for the authorization
And he signed all my paperwork and cards
And we laughed at the armor, and that made it all better
And just then the Ghost sent his regards
“did the best that you could…with no one to help
…and you did it in time for this day
here’s the leather I used, here’s the pattern I used
you’ll do fine, we were all there one day…”
And I looked and I looked to see who owned that voice
but I never found anyone, you see
So I called it a name, the Benevolent Ghost
Of what a SCAdian White Belt should be

And not too much time later, I’m at an event
And my lady’s been helping, you see
’cause that’s who she is, she’s a helper, you know
just some tables to move, then to me
she comes crying, in tears, she’d been told “we don’t need you
“and you’re doing it wrong anyway
Then not five minutes later all these tables are done
done exactly and in the same way.
And I hugged her and held her, didn’t know what to say
When the Ghost gave me all the right words.
“did the best that you could…with no one to help
…and you did it in time for this day
move the tables right here, move the chairs over here
you’ll do fine, we were all there one day…”
And I looked and I looked to see who owned that voice
but I never found anyone, you see
So I called it a name, the Benevolent Ghost
Of what a SCAdian Pelican should be.

And they’re out there, you know. They’re alive and they’re real.
And some of them even have names.
Like Duke Ragnarr, Lynette, Ashia, and Christoph,
And Daemon, and Emma, and James.
But those are just names that they give to the people
Who embody this concept, to me,
This thing that we call the Benevolent Ghost
of what a SCAdian Peerage should be.

Sundials – Finally got some pix of the new graph and the dowels that are going to be used. After that Loren got the graph cut and started trying it. Pix are below.

Sewing

On Wednesday Anja was dealing with a low-level migraine all day, so sitting under fluorescent lights was painful. She did some embroidery, finished the prototype tissue cover and did a small amount of mending, plus working on the outfit stuff shared below.

Still need to take the measuring snip out

Needlebook cover – Well, I’ll add pages, later.

Herb Bunch – We have more than 1/2 of the dried herbs prepped and stored, now! The other thing that got worked on was making pots for some of the succulent starts that really need to get finished. We also talked about starting to make some candles after all the 12th Night flap is over.

3 rescues on the left and a frost-nipped, then sunburned begonia

The big tray that was done a couple of months back

Rescued ferns and baby jade plants around a very big jade plant

Project Day – Starting with boiling eggs that we’re going to need for next weekend, planning to pickle ’em. Next up was pictures of progress over the last couple of days. Anja was working on the smock and then Loren started back in on the bone njalbinden needles. He also did a bit on the sundials.

Dowel Bundle, some of these for sundials, some for the puppet

Miscellaneous pix – Alodar Stanson – A short and in-concise history of the Crowns of An Tir…

An Tir was elevated from a Principality of the West to The Kingdom of An Tir in AS XVI (1982).
The First Set of Crowns (v1.0) were made by Master Gerhard Kendal of Westmoreland in that Year, for Monfred and Morag, 12th Night, AS XVI

We (An Tir) are currently seeking/trying to locate these Crowns (v1.0) If you know where they might be, please, do tell…

2nd set of crowns worn from 1986 to 2016. Master Torgul

The Crowns of An Tir (v2.0) made by Master Torgul, first briefly worn by Thorin and Angharad before they Crowned Dak and Lao with them for 12th Night AS XXI. (1986). Retired at 12th night, A.S. 50 (2016) (or not retired-just out for repairs {?} ) by Torgul’s former student and artist of the current Crowns, Master Torfin Torgulsson. (possible update, please?)
So, These Crowns were worn for 30 years – 60 (+/-) of our Kings and Queens. That is a lot of Royalty…

The Crowns of An Tir (v3.0) made by Master Torfin Torgulsson and first used at 12th Night, AS 50 (2016) for Eirik and Driffina.

Miscellaneous pix –

medieval browser with multiple tabs open

Music – Getting ready for the Friday Night ball?

Anja’s Outfit (Anja) – Mostly I had to find pieces and re-start the project. I finished cutting out the kirtle pieces and then started back in on the smock. The body of that wasn’t too bad. I had mis-cut, but simply split the two pieces apart where a normal shoulder seam would be and then added in the right size gusset after staring and swearing and trying for about an hour. I got it done, then did the front opening and pleat and that was done for the moment…although I have an awful feeling to that one side is a bit short and I’m going to be adding a strip of fabric there.

I spent most of Tuesday evening cussing at the cuff and wrist ruffles of the smock that’s the underpinnings of the outfit that I’m doing. Trying to get itty-bitty pleats into place is better than itty-bitty ruffling that wasn’t working at all, but it’s a matter of degree how awful it is!

Smock – neckline with shoulder gussets and front split

Smock – Pleating is *not( my favorite, but the ruffling wasn’t working

Neck machine sewing is done.

On Wednesday the ruffle hand-sewing got accomplished, although I might hand-sew them to the smock. On Thursday those got ironed and I started on the rest of the smock and did some more cutting out of gores. I got the main seams done on the kirtle, as well. Friday and Saturday were taken up with sewing the neck of the smock and starting to add the neckband/ruffle.

Sunday

Starting the neckband. It’s only attached right at the bottom of the photo, slightly right of center

Links – Virtual Bardic! Cariadoc of the Bow – http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Medieval/Bardic_Circle/Virtual_Bardic_Circle.html?fbclid=IwAR3B_291QMa7GyufVdRzbLOWxMzAPInOjzYHcZJCXXfo5XG00Xkc1J463Z0

New Page – Page not complete, but will be found here: https://anjasquest.wordpress.com/tasks/spanishe-coat-smock-and-kirtle/

Funnies

Anja, Loren, Sasha, Amor, Brandon.

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

ASXLVII = 24
ASXLVIII = 88
ASXLIX = 794
ASL = 2138
ASLI = 731
ASLII = 304
ASLIII – 87 plus 25 pouches for block-printing, tissue holder, 8 bookmarkers, 25 bottles of gall ink, 25 unfinished pincushions, 1 sewing kit (except for bone needle), varnished stuff (124)

Total as a Household = 3771 handed off

In ministerio autem Somnium! Anja, graeca doctrina servus to House Capuchin
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January 7, 2019 0

Activities through 12-30-18 Tymberhavene Yule

Holidays and events mess with schedules, but this coming week should be more normal. Tymberhavene’s Yule, a bunch of sewing and some recipes 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
Next Potluck – 1/20, (no Feb potluck), 3/17
Winter Feast Date is 2/17/19

Progress on Saturday – Still need to trim ends

Early Week – …got eaten by the holiday celebrations, but Sasha got to try some more of the goodies that we’re putting together for the Winter Feast.

Eugene Trip, 12/26, Anja’s take – We had a tire blow Tuesday evening. Loren ran over with the tire as soon as the tire place was open and then got it mended. We’re still not sure what happened with it, but it got mended….. so, he got it onto the car and got quite soaked in the process. He had to come in and change before we headed out and we had a tote of stuff and my walker to load. I had been talking back and forth with Vesta since the night before when we realized the tire problem.

I really needed the walker, too. Whatever I did to my right hip on Wednesday was still whalloping me and I had to use the walker to keep from limping (which does more damage….)

We had a lovely drive down. The *views* from the car of the ocean and then of the trek up and over the Coast Range! It was decent weather, only a little spitty at times, and the roadways weren’t slippery. We talked the whole way, chatting about this and that, things that we often don’t have time to bring up, since we’re so busy.

We had stopped for gas in Florence, but that was all, and we got to the restaurant (Vietnam Restaurant on 11th, Eugene) 10 minutes past the time we were supposed to get there, but Vesta was waiting. I ordered what she suggested which was the #4, a shrimp/chicken/veg roll with peanut sauce, in an almost transparent casing and beef pho. Now, I get what the shouting’s about! That was delicious, but some of the odd bits that floated up in that bowl… Um… well that was neither beef nor a noodle…it looked like it had suckers on it. Maybe I don’t want to know… I happily chowed on it until it started to get cold. That was a mixing bowl, not a soup bowl…. So I got mine into a tub to take home.

We exchanged presents. She gave Loren a loaf of delicious bread and me a beautiful Czech tablecloth…vintage at this point, since it says, “Czechoslovakia”. 🙂 She had a good laugh over the Nutella socks that we had for her and loves marzipan. 🙂 …and we talked and talked. It was good to be able to do that outside of an SCA event.

She took off for the rehab center where our friend, Iurii, has been since he got ill around Thanksgiving. …and we followed the google map directions and got thoroughly lost for over an hour. We finally called the rehab center and one of the secretaries talked us in. Loren says he’s humiliated forever…. 🙂

Iurii is still looking peaky and he all kinds of places for tubes to attach. all plugged off, but wasn’t attached to anything at that time we were there. Vesta took off (she’d been there for 1 1/2 hours before we got there!) and we gave Iurii his Christmas goodies and then sat and talked for awhile. He was kinda dozy. I’m sure he’s still on a bunch of pain meds, but he was moving easily and coherent, so I know he’s doing better.

We were supposed to go to fight practice after, but Loren was tired enough that we headed back. I dozed a lot, but Loren was dealing with people trying to drive in our non-existent trunk and high beams and fog, so I kept getting startled awake. I got some lovely views of the starry night sky and some really spooky vignettes of the foggy landscape. I finally came completely awake at about Mapleton on the way back.

We stopped at A&W and had a good supper with cheese curds for dessert. 🙂 They really do have the best root beer! We took it easy on 101 from Florence to Waldport, since we were mostly alone on the road. The Heceta Light was amazing in the slightly foggy weather, the rotating beam sweeping over the trees and cliffs and us and ocean. We had seen the brightness for most of a couple of miles.When we came around the bend by the Sea Lion Caves, though, *WOW*! They have the whole B&B lighted and it’s really lovely. …and then coming home…seeing the lights of Yachats appearing and disappearing as we came around the curves. …and all the holiday lights on houses…. I haven’t managed to say anything about those, but we looked and commented all day. I wasn’t counting, officially, but it was upwards of 400! …and we came home and slept *hard*.

Sewing – Anja is starting the big project that she’s trying to finish for 12th Night. So far, that’s mostly been re-studying the pattern and instructions and making sure that she has pieces, but a couple of the biggest pieces are actually already cut and partly sewn. That’s going to help. Some small hand-bits got worked on and the fasteners ordered. (pictures below)

Herb Bunch – We didn’t have the usual Saturday workshop, but during the week a number of herbs were pulled from the drying rack and put by for processing.

Tymberhavene Yule – Anja’s Take

Friday evening we sat down to make sure we had the pickles ready to go, and then set up a pot of čočky (lentil pottage) to cook overnight. We were up pretty early, got our food things put together and into the car and headed out. The wave action was wonderful to watch. I haven’t seen the spouting horn at Neptune Park go off for several years, but caught it going, yesterday. It’s just a tad over 2 hours to where we were headed. We talked the entire way, nothing of any consequence, just commentary.

Once we were at the site I spent quite awhile getting our food contributions set up and then circulated for a bit, saying hi to folks that I haven’t seen for awhile. During the afternoon I spent quite awhile embroidering, watching what others were up to, nibbling on the lunch stuffs and occasionally lurking in the kitchen.

There were several new people there and I gave them all some of my coins. I also handed some to Seamus’ family and a couple of other Tymberhavene folks. I kibbitzed over the embroidery Snorri was working on all afternoon and finally went over and go a good look at it. It’s lovely!

…and not a single picture happened. Not sure why. There really aren’t any even on the Tymberhavene group although I’ve put out a plea for a few. If I get any they’ll get added, later.

The feast in the evening was really delicious. I got more pepper than is good for me, but didn’t hurt myself on it. A bunch of us spent time bullying the Seamus (who was running the event) and Alexander (the guy running the kitchen) about putting out a cookbook. 🙂 The cheese and egg pie was especially good and there was a meatball dish that I want to try. …and I fell apart eating the berry cream and black forest cake, omgs…. We brought home some leftovers and I gave away some of our pickles that folks particularly liked.

Clean-up was actually fun. Various people were talking recipes and I got to ask Alexander about vigil food for Seamus’ at 12th Night. I kept spilling stuff, but at least it went into the tablecloth…

Loren says this is really good. Several meats.

The cheese and egg pie was wonderfully saffrony!

I dozed most of the way home. I had gotten soaked getting to the car, since the mist that we had earlier in the day turned to real rain and an overflowing gutter dumped down my neck, and by the time we got the car started I was really cold, actually past the shivering stage, so it was a relief when the heat kicked in and the windows unfogged and I could turn the heat on my feet and gradually warm and dry. Once I was warm, though, I just couldn’t hold my eyes open.

When I was conscious we talked about the event, people that we had met, ideas that came up…and then I would doze off again, waking when we hit a bad patch of pavement, or at the occasional cussing from Loren over drivers who pull up into your trunk with their high-beams on. I got to see Heceta Head again, but the B&B lights were off. It was just the beautiful light from the Fresnel lens sweeping across the ocean and the trees.

We off-loaded, put the food away, at least, and crashed, only to start in on dishes and such Sunday morning.

Project Day – Started with cleaning up from the Tymberhavene Yule. There was food to put away, pickles to sort and dishes to do. Anja did the write-up and then started with pix, then with sewing, doing the first one of the tissue holders (pix below). Loren was working on another needle, smoothing it. Later in the day Anja got some of the kirtle for her 12th Night project cut and the gown sleeves cut and sewn.

Starting to make it squared off, measuring

Starting to make it squared off, stitching

Outfit pix

Pieces of the smock on the left and kirtle tissues

t-b – Gown sleeves, underskirt, smock body and extra fabric

Recipes – I promised the watermelon pickle recipe to a couple of people at Yule. This is *modern*, but it’s yummy.

Pickled Watermelon Rind

Ingredients

2 pounds Watermelon rind, white only
1 cup salt for 2 gallons water
4 inch piece of ginger, peeled, grated (for “tea”)
3 cups sugar x?
1 cup vinegar x?
4 sticks cinnamon x?
1 ½ tablespoons cloves, whole x?
1 ½ tablespoons mace, whole x?
plus fresh ginger piece and more cinnamon sticks

Tools

Canning jars, lids and rings
Water bath
Cheesecloth

Preparation

Any quantity can be made using the formula below. This recipe is enough for 1 large watermelon.
Peel and cut watermelon rind into strips. Weigh.
Soak in a strong salt water solution (about 1 cup salt dissolved in 1 gallons water) for 24 hours. (Use a big canning jar!)
Grate a 4 inch piece of fresh ginger and steep 2 quarts of hot water for 30 minutes to make a ginger “tea”. Strain the tea through a filter or cheesecloth to remove ginger.
Drain well and rinse with plain water,.
Put the rind into a crockpot with the ginger tea on high for an hour.
Add syrup makings using the following formula. For each pound of melon weighed at the start, add 1 cup sugar. For each 3 1/2 pounds of sugar used, add 1 pint of vinegar. For each pint of vinegar, use 1 1/2 tablespoons of whole mace, cloves and cinnamon bark. (Alternatively, boil the syrup separately and then add to crockpot)
Cook on low overnight.
Add 1 cinnamon stick and one slice of fresh ginger to each jar before filling.
Using a slotted spoon, pack rind into pint or cup jars, letting the liquid drain back into the pot.
Divide leftover spices evenly, then add syrup, ditto. There is usually some syrup left over after filling the jars. If there isn’t, boil some water and add, *carefully*, to the center of the jars, using a funnel.
Put the canning lids on, then rings and allow to cool on the counter.
Screw down the rings and refrigerate.

If not planning to refrigerate – Pack into hot canning jars and fill with enough liquid to cover, leaving 1/4 inch head space. Adjust lids and process pints in a boiling water bath for 10 minutes.

Note – This made a pickle which was a little thin and not quite sweet enough. We packed in 12 oz jars, but forgot the cinnamon stick. What we’ve been doing is when we open a new jar, we add 1 Tbsp of brown sugar, then put the lid & rings back on and set upside-down overnight and shake a bit (or stir in the serving bowl) before serving.

The next recipe is what I usually do and then the difference in ingredients and amounts for how I did the ones for Yule, follows.

Čočky – Lentil Pottage with ham bits (this is a “panic dish”)

1 lb lentils, rinsed and picked over
6 cups water (add more when finished if you want it “soupy”.
Tablespoon caraway seed
1 cup ham rind or bacon, chopped
1 whole medium onion
Salt to taste (I added a palmful)

Method

Put rinsed lentils into small crockpot with water.
Peel onion, take off root and tip and put in with lentils.
Add caraway.
Finely chop ham rind and add.
Cover and start on high for 2 hours.
Turn to low and cook for another ½ to 1 hour.
Will hold for up to 4 hours on warm, singes after an hour on low unless you add water.

For pre-prep, box up and refrigerate (1 week) or freeze (3 months!)
This can be re-heated in a pyrex cup in the microwave or in a baking dish in the oven, wherever you have more room! Serve hot.
For a Panic Dish freeze in 2 cup amounts (4 regular servings, 8 for a feast) and heat as necessary. Yes, you can start from the dish being frozen to heat this.

Variation for Tymberhavene Yule – done in crockpot

2 cups lentils, rinsed and picked over
1/2 gallon beef broth (made from a beef roast cooked in burgundy with onions, caraway and mushrooms)
about 2 cups of a commercial beef broth, plus another cup or so of water.
2 bags frozen carrots (total of 24 oz)
2 Tablespoon caraway seed
1 sliced kielbasa
3 cups of frozen chopped onion
Salt to taste (I added a palmful)
No ham or bacon, just the kielbasa.

Cooked for 2 hours on high, 6 on low, sat for 2, then back on high for another 2 hours (although they were edible before this point, this took the lentils from “crunchy” to soft.

Miscellaneous pix

rabbit hood – Gorleston Psalter England c 1310-1324 BL Add 49622 fol 202v

Music – Medieval Carols, Oxford Camerata, Jeremy Summerly

For track listing and to buy the CD: https://naxosdirect.co.uk/items/medieval-carols-jeremy-summerly-murray-khouri-oxford-camerata-naxos-8.550751-144678

Albums

Ave Maria – Les Plus Beaux Ave Maria Et Chants A La Vierge (The Most Beautiful Ave Marias and Songs To the Virgin) Licensed to YouTube by NaxosofAmerica (on behalf of Naxos); Public Domain Compositions, UMPG Publishing, ASCAP, Sony ATV Publishing, and 3 Music Rights
and
Medieval Carols, Licensed to YouTube by NaxosofAmerica

Songs

Ave Maria
What tidings bringest thou? – What tidings bringest thou?
O viridissima virga – O viridissima virga
Alma redemptoris mater
Deo gracias Anglia – Deo gracias Anglia
Be merry be merry – Be merry be merry
Riu riu chiu – Killer Tracks
There is no rose – There is no rose
Planctus Guillelmus – Planctus Guillelmus
Eya mater Stephane

Funnies

Anja, Sasha, Loren,

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

ASXLVII = 24
ASXLVIII = 88
ASXLIX = 794
ASL = 2138
ASLI = 731
ASLII = 304
ASLIII – 87 plus 25 pouches for block-printing, tissue holder, 8 bookmarkers, 25 bottles of gall ink, 25 unfinished pincushions, 1 sewing kit (except for bone needle), varnished stuff (124)

Total as a Household = 3771 handed off

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