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Activities through 10-21-18 Potluck

This week was a little on the crazy side. We got a lot done with the garden harvest and winterizing and then had a good potluck to round out the week!

Isabeau has a bunged arm. Hoping for quick healing there and that it’s *not* broken.

This coming week has all meetings at the normal times.

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 – 11/18, 12/16
Winter Feast Date is 2/17/19

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

Early Week

Sunday night, right after the report went out, the cheese finally curdled! That meant that Loren had to scramble to get the molds drilled and Anja needed to sit with the cheese to make sure that it was going to be ok.

=On Monday the cheese got finished after a snafu with the brine and was left to cool and drain. On Wednesday the next batch finally curdled

and got finished on Friday.

On Thursday another was started with the unripe figs and it didn’t quite work, so it got some rennet added and finished on Friday.

From Facebook on 10/14/18

Mea Passavanti – Dad has a saying about what we call peers… kitchen help. Last night after a long and lovely feast, the dish washer broke. I walked into the kitchen to see what help to give and nope… It was more than handled… By his Highness, Sir Einar, Sir Brand, Master Charles, Master Armand, Duchess Zanobia, Mistress Elanor … And that was just at glance. 💗#mysca

Kasilda Kubasek – The SCA I remember and love

Amy Rich – cleaning up yesterdays coronation…. 70% old Peers…

Amy Carpenter – When I was a newbie in Caid, I heard this:
”What do you call the last person out of the kitchen after the feast?”
”Your Excellency!”

Another SCA story

Cookery

Sauce Bob – a better version: 2 sticks butter, 2 bunches spring onions, 1/4 cup dry mustard, 1/4 cup black mustard seed, NO RICE FlOUR!

Sauce Bob, or a trial run, was part of Loren and Anja’s supper on Sunday and then again on Friday.

Sauce Bob is what the Stromgard culinary group called it to be funny. It’s actually a recipe from Le Viandier de Tallivent.

Barbe Robert [Sauce]. (aka Taillemaslee) – Take small onions fried in lard (or butter according to the day), verjuice, vinegar, mustard, Small Spices and salt. Boil everything together. (A 1583 cookbook quoted by Pichon et al., p. 109.)

So we used:

2 stick butter (1/2 pound)
6 spring onions (rinsed with dry or slimy parts cut off)
1 small shallot (this was ‘coz we had it)
1 1/2 Tbsp pickled caper buds
3 Tbsp mustard
1/4 cup cider vinegar
1 tsp salt
3 Tbsp rice flour.

Method

Melt the butter in a frypan on high.
Cut the onions and toss them into the butter. (We cut the shallot and added it likewise because it needed to be used up, otherwise use 10 spring onions)
Cook until fragrant. (just a few minutes on high)
Turn the heat to low.
Add the mustard powder and stir it in, well.
Add the capers, vinegar and salt.
Stir well.
Add rice flour and stir until it cooks. (This was because there seemed more grease than it should have from the butter)
Cook on low until flavors blend.
Makes about 1 cup of sauce.

Note – Next time we’ll start with 1 stick of butter and only add it if it looks to be needed, which would make 1/2 cup and some change of the sauce. The capers were saltier than we realized, too, so might cut down to 1/2 tsp of salt. The sauce set up, too, after it sat for a bit… so maybe 2 Tbsp of the rice flour?

Ingredients, less the rice flour and salt

Measureing with the debris from the cutting (onion ends are getting planted….)

Sauce Bob – Done. It’s “grainy” because of the rice flour

Sunday’s version

2 sticks butter
2 bunches of spring onions (about 25 small ones!)
1 tablespoon capers
1/4 cup caper juice
1/4 cup dry mustard
1/4 cup black mustard seed, crushed

No salt, no flour, no vinegar needed!

Moar Cookery – Cheeses – Fig sap rennet

This was started Saturday evening. By Sunday morning there was only a little touch of thickening, so Anja barked a 2nd twig (total of about 22 inches) and added it. It suddenly curdled at about 7pm! It was a soft curd again, but not quite as bubbly or wet as last time. We added garlic and onion powder and dill weed. By 10:30 it was in the molds and being pressed. By 11, one of the bottoms was done and in the mold and the cheese flipped. They sat in the fridge overnight, then were unmolded and brined in the morning. We used 6 cups water, 1/2 cup salt for the brine.

Added dill weed and onion and garlic powder

Out of the mold and more miss-shapen than it should be.

…and people on one of the cheese fora were kinda weirded out by brining in a cloth, so I didn’t. 🙂 …well, the cheeses started to fall apart! So, they got scooped up, put back into the molds and listened to me cuss…. So, they started brining at 11:20 and were put back into the molds at 11:40 and left until 12:40. Once they were pulled out they were put in “drain boxes” (made for veggies) and set in the fridge.

On Tuesday (10/17) some of the cheese got tasted. It *wasn’t* bitter, or if it was, the brining ameliorated the bitterness. It was incredibly salty, but I’m putting that to the explosion in the brine and putting it back into the molds. It was very dry, even though it molded well, almost crumbly, and some did crumble as it was cut. One of the two was wrapped in pickled grape leaf and left for Sunday.

Loren went out and got another gallon of milk, figuring to actually see how long the curdling takes with the smaller amount of fig twig. That batch was started at 11pm. At 11am you could just barely see that something was happening. At 3pm it got stirred well. and again at 7pm and 10pm and it still wasn’t curdling. It didn’t curdle and didn’t curdle and didn’t curdle even after 24 hours, so it got another batch of twigs in at 2am, Wednesday morning.

At 8am, still not much curdling, but you could see something was happening and then at 5pm it finally was turning to curds all through. Phew! It got cooked that evening, and Anja re-cooked the whey for recocta (ricotta), but didn’t get brined until Friday.

Thursday evening we started another gallon of milk with the unripe figs. The milk was brought to 110 or so, the figs chopped, and added and the pot left under towels overnight.

Friday – It’s possible that the Thursday cheese might have curdled if heated (didn’t think of it in time), but we added rennet and then it really did. The odd part was that there were two layers of curd. One was the usually foamy stuff that the figs produce (that floats), the other was the standard rennet (that sinks) that cut. If you look carefully at the pic of the curd, you can see the cut ones in the center. Anja cooked it by the schiz recipe and molded it for that purpose. …and then the Tuesday brined cheeses exploded out of the molds. There’s got to be a trick for that… but the 3rd cheese of the 2nd batch got *cold* brined. We’ll see if that works. So there are two over-brined cheeses (one of which is grape-leaf-wrapped, plus 4 schiz (which didn’t fit in the boxes either….) We quit at midnight with everything done and fridged and us, really frustrated.

Sunday – The tasting

One person loved the fresca and four liked it. Two loved the cold-brined ricotta/regular one and two liked it. 3 enjoyed the leaf-wrapped one and the others got tasted and pronounced, “ok”

Fig rennet cheeses – Clockwise from left: overbrined dill/onion, dill/onion wrapped in pickled grape leaf, fresca, cold-brined, plain

Yet more Cookery – Potluck foods – Saturday evening

We set up to do some meats in the roaster: a chicken, just for us, and some chicken parts to go with another incarnation of Sauce Bob. Those had to thaw overnight. A crockpot went together of a lamb shank stew with vegetables, and another of a lentil pottage with our homegrown carrots to cook overnight and we cleared a space to do the sauce and set up the roaster with the meats for Sunday.

Sewing – Anja’s still working on the same cuff. Rotten pic…. but this is as far as it got over the week. Wrong side, btw.

Herb Bunch – Plant tending happened on Tuesday. Anja says she has enough greens for the potluck stew. Loren started helping with the watering of the small plants. More plant tending on Wednesday, the plants from Anja’s garden that are at a friend’s. We harvested some carrots, and a few herbs for the stew, too and the rest of the greens & herbs were harvested Sunday morning.

Saturday’s Workshop was on Infusions, Decoctions and Tinctures and then we made rose ball sachets.

Some harvest

Project Day

There were 5 of us, so some of the group projects happened, mostly working on ball sachets and sanding. Two people spent the day sewing on a couple of gowns, a pouch, etc and the third got to be the dressmaker’s dummy. 🙂 . Anja got some licks in on a spoon and the cuff. Loren did a little sanding, set up the lamb bones for sterilizing and found things.

Cute grin!

Potluck – We started on the lentils late in the afternoon because everyone was getting hungry, and the did some taste tests on the cheeses (see above) and Loren surprised us with his version of the Pompeii bread. Once Loryea arrived we had some of her cumin butternut squash soup and it was delicious enough that one of us had at least 4 bowls of it! (Might have been more…lost track!) The lamb stew turned out pretty disgusting, unfortunately, but at least we have the bones for needles. The chicken with Sauce Bob was pretty tasty, so that looks like a decent dish for Winter Feast.

Potluck Menu

Chicken with Sauce Bob
Cheeses
Bread
Garlic butter and Italian butter
Lamb Stew
Various pickles – bean, cabbage, strawberry, carrot and turnip
Butternut squash soup
Strawberry sekanjabin

Loren surprised us with his version of Pompeii Bread!

Miscellaneous pix

Morning Court at the Bear & Apple Tavern – Photo by Alan Roberts.

At GWW – 10/13/18 – Diane Granander is with Stacey Doe OFlynn and Rich Bright

The Ballroom hangings for 12th Night 2020 in Adiantum!

Largess Project – with seed packets on each page

Music

Links

Medieval Book That Opens Six Different Ways, Revealing Six Different Books in One – http://www.openculture.com/2018/10/medieval-book-opens-six-different-ways-revealing-six-different-books-one.html
Bayeux Tapestry – https://www.historyextra.com/period/norman/bayeux-tapestry-make-how-long-who-when-stitch/
Strung Along: Re-evaluating Gendered Views of Viking-Age Beads – https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00766097.2015.1119384?fbclid=IwAR2maBjq23jWTAnevkvP7-wfYfwTKW8CgXh8bdkLL9mKJMeot4vtWDnzhpA&
Interesting Recipe – https://magdelena-kitchen.blogspot.com/2018/10/recipe-10-pickled-game.html
Archaeologists in Pompeii Have Discovered an ‘Enchanted’ Shrine Covered in Gorgeously Preserved Frescoes – https://news.artnet.com/art-world/archaeologists-shrine-discovery-pompeii-1372657
Egyptian blue – http://www.artinsociety.com/egyptian-blue-the-colour-of-technology.html

Funnies

Anja, Loren, Gogor (V), Gudrun (V), William, Æsa, Ella

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

ASXLVII = 24
ASXLVIII = 88
ASXLIX = 794
ASL = 2138
ASLI = 731
ASLII = 304
ASLIII – 82 plus 25 pouches for block-printing, 8 bookmarkers, 25 bottles of gall ink, 25 unfinished pincushions, 1 sewing kit (except for bone needle), varnished stuff (124)
Total as a Household = 3766 handed off

In ministerio autem Somnium! Anja, graeca doctrina servus to House Capuchin
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October 23, 2018 0

Activities through 10-14-18

Other than the horrible news about the Society Equestrian Marshal this has been a busy, but quiet, week. There is a section below on the accident.

Otherwise, we finished the ink, pickled some grape leaves, started a cheese, dried some more mushrooms and did a few other tasks.

Potluck next Sunday! We’ll be concentrating on doing some of the test dishes for the winter feast, including Sauce Bob and a couple of others.

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 – 10/21, 11/18, 12/16
Winter Feast Date is 2/17/19

On Monday the Known Worlde was reverberating with shock…

Kelly Magill via Announcements <announcements@lists.sca.org>
To: announcements – Oct 7 at 7:46 PM

On Saturday, October 6, a brother in arms to many of us lost his life in the pursuit of our game. The Society’s Equestrian Marshal, Master Terafan Greydragon, died while competing in an equestrian game at an SCA event in Kentucky. The Society is investigating the matter and is fully cooperating with the authorities. The Society Marshal is conducting an investigation to determine what might have led up to the accident, and what specific measures should be taken to ensure that this does not occur again. Upon the completion of our investigation, the SCA will make the results available to the public. We have reached out to Terafan’s family to express our support for them at this moment of loss. We ask that Terafan and his family be held in your hearts.

Society Marshal – Alan Gravesend, Society Marshal
Comments are strongly encouraged and can be sent to:
SCA Inc.
Box 360789
Milpitas, CA 95036

You may also email comments@lists.sca.org.

This announcement is an official informational release by the Society for Creative Anachronism , Inc. Permission is granted to reproduce this announcement in its entirety in newsletters, websites and electronic mailing lists.

Then his brother posted….

John Barclay – October 6 at 6:19 PM

It comes with great sadness that my younger middle brother, Peter Barclay has died. 53 years old, raised in Las Cruces NM. NMSU grad. He was at an equestrian/medieval event in Ohio, when his metal tipped lance, used for catching rings (not jousting), hit the ground and flipped. Freak accident. It impaled him under his sternum killing him. He was air lifted but died in route. He led a distinguished career as a retired Lt. Colonel in the US Army. He leaves behind his wife Deborah A. Barclay, and daughters Amy and Taryth. Survived by his father Jack Barclay, older brother John Barclay and younger brother Charles Barclay. He died doing what he loved, but will still be missed. 😥. RIP Peter aka: Terafan Greydragon !

In Memoriam – The East Kingdom Gazette – https://eastkingdomgazette.org/2018/10/12/in-memoriam-master-rhys-terafan-greydragon/

Anja used to do jousting back in Maryland (where it is the state sport) and had her share of close calls. She was horrified for him and even worse for those who saw it happen. Our sympathies to his family, friends, the spectators, and to all who knew him well.

Early Week – We needed to finish the ink, so that was first up. We decided that up front by Anja’s beading area was *not* the best place to be making ink, so Loren cleared up some space on the worktable in back.

Hmm… that’s not as much liquid as I thought…

1 hour – Stirred some more (the gum arabic is almost all dissolved.

The front stuff is after it had been sitting for an hour. The two pale stripes are from about 10 minutes after it was stirred.

…and we got a bunch more information from the frantic questions that went out on Sunday about the ferrous sulphate. These are some good how-to’s and what-is-it’s.

Ink Links

On Tuesday it turned out that the thickness was resolving and under a “foam” cap, it was regular ink! Yes, Anja’s calligraphy sucks. She was using a square nib and she’s a lefty. She says, “I gotta cut me a quill!”

The next step was filling tiny bottles. So that went on for a couple of days.

Wednesday, 10/10/18 – Waxing the corks to keep the ink where it belongs is necessary.

Some of them, when dipped, “bleed” ink since the wax shrinks

Partially done

Done (in the back) Need more (in the middle) and some that haven’t been touched, yet.

Sunday 10/14 – All done. 53 bottles, a one cup bottle and 2 cups in a ball jar. We just don’t have any more corks! 1/2 the ink is going to Loren and Anja for their shop to pay for the materials.

Cookery – Grape leaves got pickled on Saturday. These get used for wrapping cheese and wrapping around a meat and barley filling. They will sit for a couple of weeks before use. We used previously made pickle broth, but it wasn’t enough, so boiled another quart of cider vinegar with salt/sugar.

Soaking the leaves in water to make sure they’re clean and don’t stick to each other.

Poking the leaves down into the gallon jar.

Sewing – Anja’s blackwork had gotten this far by Saturday evening.

Herb Bunch – On Tuesday (10/9) the plantain seeds were dry, so a couple of us sat and stripped them. The other batch got finished on Saturday.

All dry, but some rose petals spilled on them.

Stripped and in the jar, minus the rose petals

Wednesday, 10/10 – The same folks who gifted us with the previous bolete brought in a whole bag of them! One was a King Bolete, but the others were Suillus tomentosus, Blue-staining Slippery Jack. Kinda gave us a turn to see the blue! The Suillus was full of little black jumpy bugs and the king full of white worms… ew… But we got them into the dehydrator as soon as we could. Not all fit. There were a couple of paper towels worth yet on the table….

King bolete at the bottom left. The other are Blue-staining Slippery Jack

Tray 4 (the bottom and left is the king)

10/11/18 – First was to finish the spore print.

Then to get the one set of mushrooms out of the dehydrator, then the 2nd.

The 2nd set sat in the dehydrator until Saturday morning, when it got turned back on, then they were zipped with the rest.

Project Day – We started with some cookery, some non-period squash (so no pix). There was a fig rennet cheese starting, but it wasn’t curdling, so Anja added another piece of twig. Next up was more ink. (Pix above)

Anja spent a little time re-organizing the cheese box, since things had gotten tossed all over and made a bag for the coasters and the bottoms of the spring-form molds. Loren had never seen finger-crochet! I was using a piece of the cotton string that is tied around the newspapers for the bulk drops to make a thick enough cord for a small net onion bag and he was fascinated. Watching, he realized that it’s the same technique that he uses to shorten the long orange outdoor power cords.

A little embroidery happened, some sanding, a little reorganizing of the games box, drawers and the block-printing box happened, but no pix.

Winter Feast! – Josh finally managed to get his pix off his camera, so here’s another batch.

Miscellaneous pix

Temperance and Tryggr at GWW 3 years ago.

Eleanor De Bolton – GWW – Summits! Thank you Diane Tripp Brazell for the fantastic photos — with Njal Tjorkilsson, Attila Karolyi, Sif The-Fair Kay Preston and Ayla Roth.

Scopperels! Nicholas Bassee 1571 _New Modelbuch_ https://gallica.bnf.fr/

Morning Modelbuch (10/1/2018) Related to yesterday’s Stent engravings is the 1592 printing of _Archetypa studiaque Patris Georgio Hoefnagelii_. Joris Hoefnagel was an illuminator whose work I have often drooled over, especially his illumination of _Mira calligraphiae monumenta_. His son Jacob did a series of engravings taken from his father’s work and painted pattern book. The book became highly influential to both painters and embroiderers. A bit on the context and both men. http://web.archive.org/web/20041204045617/http://www.martayanlan.com/cgi-bin/display.cgi/Books/4/30/10/786 An online copy of Archetypa. http://docnum.u-strasbg.fr/cdm/compoundobject/collection/coll13/id/73052/rec/28

We’ve run across the printer Paul Furst previously, because of the series of 4 modelbucher engraved by his daughter that are totally and completely, no questions asked, unmistakably for embroiderers with charted floral designs. I was intrigued by this book that is similar in style to Hoefnagel’s 1592 and Crispijn van der Passe’s 1612 plates published by Peter Stent. Titled _Viridarium Novum_ it was published in 1652. The full title once again puts forward the images as being for embroiderers, goldsmiths, and other artists. “New little book of flowers, in it all kinds of beautiful flowers, also fruits and little animals, which are very useful to painters, silk embroiderers, goldsmiths and similar artists and are especially useful for travelling. Engraved in copperplate in honor of all art-lovers, published in Nuremberg 1652 in the publishing house of Paulus Fürst, art dealer.” A digitized copy is available here. http://docnum.u-strasbg.fr/…/collec…/coll13/id/189029/rec/53

Morning Modelbuch (9/21/2018) I started a big garden design project yesterday and I think I’m going to do the square pears up in cross stitch with variegated thread as a cover for the binder. The garden is going to be a mash-up of medieval kitchen gardens and modern raised beds, so it seemed appropriate. I’m also planning on planting some warden pears. Pears. I like pears. Pomegranates and acorns and roses are much more common, but there are a few pear patterns. These are from Vinciolo’s second book. It’s bound with the first one in a copy at the BNF https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10548003c.r=Vinciolo?rk=236052;4

Morning Modelbuch (6/19/2018) Bunnies, and butterflies, and puppies. I needed a smile today and this one just seems sweet and joyful and fits the bill. It’s amazing how much whimsy and expression is managed with little boxes. It’s another one from the second volume of Vinciolo that doesn’t turn up anywhere else. – https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b10548003c.r=Vinciolo?rk=236052;4

Summits! – Vinciolo – It seemed fitting to do another of those. I think the gryphon with its dragonfly is one of the most charming patterns. It’s one of the first I ever encountered since its in the Dover version of Les Singuliers. A PDF copy of that can be found here. They also have cleaned up printable versions of the charts http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/vinciolo/

Oh! Lions & dragons embroidered with metallic thread onto medieval slippers, also decorated with garnets, for Hubert Walter, Archbishop of Canterbury (d.1205) & made from Syrian silk given to him by Salah ad-Din (d.1193) .. From Prof Susan Oosthuizen

Music – the Chant de Oiseaux is one of Anja’s favorites.

Links

The original 12th Night Facebook had to get taken down. Here’s the good one: https://www.facebook.com/events/467142110437376/

New Pages – We finally got the pointer page for multi-week projects started. There are 4 projects on it at the moment.
Projects over period of time – https://housecapuchin3.wordpress.com/projects-over-period-of-time/

…and a pointer page for the Winter Feasts – Winter Feast – https://wp.me/P8ngGY-1Lp

Funnies

Loren, Anja

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

ASXLVII = 24
ASXLVIII = 88
ASXLIX = 794
ASL = 2138
ASLI = 731
ASLII = 304
ASLIII – 82 plus 25 pouches for block-printing, 8 bookmarkers, 25 bottles of gall ink, 25 unfinished pincushions, 1 sewing kit (except for bone needle), varnished stuff (124)
Total as a Household = 3766 handed off

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October 15, 2018 0

Activities through 10-7-18 Ink and Wick

Although our time is less limited than it’s been for a few weeks, it’s going to take time to get back up to speed on getting things accomplished! This week ended up being mostly research, except for an interesting mushroom and prep for things that will be finished this coming week!

Meetings should be at the normal times this week and we may have either a

cheese night or a wine night down toward the end of the week. Watch our Facebook group for that info!

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 – 10/21, 11/18, 12/16
Winter Feast Date is 2/17/19

We *are* the Society for Creative *Anachronism*! This is a photo of the latest SpaceX Falcon9 launch from Vandenberg, Sunday evening. This shot was by Reannag Teine, “Space X launch during teardown at GWW”.

Early Week – Anja was stitching, as usual, and doing some research both on smocking (grandbaby on the way….) and on other rennets for cheeses. She found “cardoona”, which is made with thistle flowers! More in cookery, below.

Games box was found and games put away. One of the boards was washed since it turned tan (from optic white!) at Shrewsbury.

Ready to grind. This set is flaky and crunches easily.

A reply about Oak Gall Ink from Antonia – We made it one year at Egils and as I recall it was possible to make a usable ink in one session, grinding up the oak galls (the woody ones from twigs work much better than the ones on leaves) and shaking them up with vinegar, ferrous sulfate (moss-be-gone) and water; adding powdered gum arabic at the end to get the right consistency. Traditional recipes call for fermenting the oak gall and iron shavings. I have all the ingredients but have never made it myself, except at the workshop.” (more in Project Day)

So we need to get some moss-be-gone. We have the vinegar and gum arabic.

Cookery – There are a lot of vegetable rennets out there. We’ve been playing, trying to find all the various ones. Thistle bloom is a new one in our list! The first cheese in the list below is made with it. It’s not one we’re going to attempt soon, since it has a long, finicky, aging process.

Cardoona Cheese Making Recipe – https://cheesemaking.com/collections/recipes/products/cardoona-cheese-making-recipe
Monks Cheese – https://cheesemaking.com/products/washed-rind-monks-cheese-making-recipe
Esrom Cheese Making Recipe
– https://cheesemaking.com/products/esrom-cheese-making-recipe
Tete de Moine Cheese Making Recipe – https://cheesemaking.com/products/tete-de-moine-cheese-making-recipe
CamBlu Recipe – https://cheesemaking.com/products/camblu-recipe

Louisa and Anja are hunting sources for sheep’s milk. There *are* dairy sheep in Oregon, but tracking ’em down, wow! There was a lot of that searching going on Wednesday. We were hoping to have Machengo cheese for Louisa’s feast in January, but it’s too spendy.

Sewing – Cuffs got started on Sunday. No pix until Friday, though. The collarband got trimmed.

Sewing Time – Saturday – More bookmarkers got worked on.

Blackworked

From the special trim from the gift exchange.

Herb Bunch

On Thursday we were offered a nice bolete (mushroom). Loren went to get it and Anja cut it up, and they put it into the dehydrator. Remember that we did this before with a different mushroom? So once this is done, we’ll pull pieces and try them in the lamps.

Starting

Cutting the embedded soil and forest floor detritus away

Slicing

Setting up to dry

…and then we changed our minds and set up the dehdrator

After 1 hour, then 3 hours, then after 6 hours, and done at 8 1/2. Btw, it smells *horrible* in the dehydrator!

1 hour, there some twisting and bubbling on the ones on top.

Top tray – 3 hours, the grayish parts are are still flexible and squish a bit.

4th tray not dry, especially the gills (greenish)

at 6 hours, bottom tray (4) still not quite

6 hours, contents of trays 1 and 2 less two pieces that went into tray 3

Oak Gall Ink – So Saturday evening (10/6/18) it took 2 hours to grind 8 oz of oak galls… Wow…. The we added the water to let it soak overnight. …and added water and added water, and two hours later added water…. wow…. The redness of the photos is from where they were taken.

The yellowy ones are too hard without being thwacked a bit

Added water and shaken…. lots of air space in there….

…and of course, when Loren pulled out the two packages of oak galls he said, “Caesar got it wrong!” “Whut?” “Omnia gallia in *duos* partes divisa?”

Project Day – The big one for today was Iron Gall Ink and started Saturday evening, so it could soak overnight.

We used instructions from – MAKING IRON GALL INK – https://www.instructables.com/id/Making-Iron-Gall-Ink/

2 oz crushed oak gall
1 pt water
Soak 24 hrs, then strain.
1 oz ferrous sulphate (moss-out)
½ oz powdered Gum Arabic
Mix well

So then, the ferrous sulphate became a problem. The name that we were given doesn’t seem to be stocked anywhere around here and most of the moss-killers are zinc sulphate. Loren talked about making our own and Anja kinda freaked (battery acid? Gleep!) but a lot of the packages of iron sulphate are 10 pounds or more (and $30) and we needed 4 ounces!

We did a lot of consulting online trying to work this out. Loren was researching and Anja embroidered. At about 5pm (when we were pretty sure that no one else was going to be here) he took off for Newport to see what he could find for ferrous sulphate. Anja was working on the gum arabic in small amounts during the late afternoon and into the evening, finishing before 9pm.

5:30 – Partway crushed. We sift it so that the powdered part doesn’t overheat and stick.

…but this is where we stopped. To be continued next week! Oh, …and embroidery….

Miscellaneous pix

Eleanor De Bolton – Summits representing at GWW. I think we had the largest contingent on the field ❤️❤️❤️

More fiber testing

oldest found in a European text. 1590, Theodorus, Iacobus, Eicones plantarum seu stirpium, Francofurti ad Moenum ;[N. Bassaeus], Chicago Botanic Garden, Lenhardt Library P 928, [Beretinus fructus; Varii Fructus peregrini]

Music – Medieval Music Recorders Lucente Stella

EGMusic Classic – Published on Jun 13, 2017

Álbum: Medieval: Lucente Stella Artista: Pierre Hamon: Flûtes à bec (Recorders) Compositor: Anônimo Pierre Hamon: Spécialist de la musique médiévale. 01. Lai Du Ch Vrefeuille (Anonyme, XIIIe Si Cle) 0:00

02. Lucente Stella (Ballata Anonyme, XIVe Si Cle) 4:10

03. Belicha (Istanpitta Anonyme, XIVe Si Cle) 8:57

04. Mes Cuers Est Emprisonn S (Rondeau Anonyme, XIIIe Si Cle) 16:39

05. Nota (Anonyme, XIIIe Si Cle) 17:24

06. In Pro (Istanpitta Anonyme, XIVe Si Cle) 18:44

07. Fragmente (1968) (Makoto Shinohara (1931)) 24:22

08. Tels Rit Au Main – complainte 31:58

09. Non Perch’i’ Speri, Donna (Ballata Anonyme, XIVe Si Cle) 36:57

10. Chominciamento Di Gioia (Istanpitta Anonyme, XIVe Si Cle) 39:08

11. Black Intention (1975) (Maki Ishii (1936)) 46:04

12. Chanson Du Papillon (Chanson Des Indiens Du Pueblo Laguna) 56:09

Origem Musica Medieval – Tradução Português.

Links

A Health Book – Regimen sanitatis Salerni This boke techyng al people to gouerne them in helthe, is translated out of the Latyne tonge in to englishe by Thomas Paynell. Whiche boke is as profitable [et] as nedefull to be had and redde as any can be to obserue corporall helthe. Joannes, de Mediolano., Arnaldus, de Villanova, d. 1311., Paynell, Thomas. [Imprinted at London: In fletestrete, in the house of Thomas Berthelet, nere to ye cu[n]dite at ye signe of Lucrece], 1528. – https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A11336.0001.001/1:4?rgn=div1;view=toc
Juggling balls! …and historical fabrics and shoes and more… – http://www.historiskarum.se/medeltid_english.htm
The Importance of Capturing a Medieval Aesthetic – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M47pqSmkK1Q&feature=youtu.be
The Reversal of Myth: Overcorrecting Arms and Armor Misconceptions – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAcdn7HQFDY
Just ‘cuz, A Princess Bride reunion on Good Morning America from 2011 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PaU-mgtBBY
Viking Chess Pieces May Reveal Early Whale Hunts in Northern Europe – https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/viking-chess-pieces-may-reveal-early-whale-hunts-northern-europe-180970466/
The importance of London for craft and industry in medieval England – http://www.medievalists.net/2018/10/the-importance-of-london-for-craft-and-industry-in-medieval-england/
Fast food has existed since ancient Rome — where restaurants sold fish sauce and baked cheese and narrowly survived two emperors – https://www.businessinsider.com/fast-food-ancient-rome-history-2018-4

Updated Page – The fig sap rennet page – https://wp.me/P8ngGY-1F9

Funnies

Anja, Louisa (v), Amor (v), Loren

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

ASXLVII = 24
ASXLVIII = 88
ASXLIX = 794
ASL = 2138
ASLI = 731
ASLII = 304
ASLIII – 82 plus 25 pouches for block-printing, 25 unfinished pincushions, 1 sewing kit (except for bone needle), varnished stuff (124)
Total as a Household = 3766 handed off

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Activities through 9-30-18

Chaos still reigns. Anja and Loren’s shop is still a mess. It’s a wonder that the embroidery hasn’t vanished, but it is proceeding. The amount of things that they’re finding, good things, supplies that wandered, mostly, is making resolving the chaos worthwhile, although jokes about just burning it all down made the rounds at one point…. Herbs, Sewing and Project Day all happened, but we didn’t get much in the way of pictures.

This week shouldn’t be quite as bad….we hope…

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 – 10/21, 11/18, 12/16
Winter Feast Date is 2/17/19

Early Week – Amor was knapping. Loren was sanding. Anja was embroidering (pix below). Boxes of supplies came out and got sorted and put away again. As in any moving situation things appear that have been missing, so those got put away, too. Where did the House games box go?

Cookery – The An Tir Culinary group had a whole bunch of links from our target place and time for the feast.

They did a lot of the work already!

…also some of the ‘Danes from the local community were talking about the fig rennet cheese on Saturday.

…and we ended Project Day with tasting some pickled capers for the Sauce Robert (that shall henceforth be known as “sauce bob”….) Sauce Robert is from Le Menagier de Paris, and is made with butter, mustard, cider vinegar, capers and green onions.

Sewing – Moar embroidery, collarband

Tuesday evening

Wednesday, mid-day.

Thursday Morning. Done but for the one stray end. How’d I miss that?

Herb Bunch – Went out hunting for this ‘shroom. No luck.

Dyer’s polypore (Phaeolus schweinitzii) and samples of yarn dyed with pigments from the same species show the range of colors available from mushroom dyes, California

…but we did have luck with a small tree. …and sold a couple of the tiny starts which will help pay for the potting soil for the rest of the herbs

Project Day – Had to be fitted in around Anja and Loren’s customers at the shop and also around trying to get the sorting out after the move done. She worked on embroidery and sanding. He did sanding and started a bone needle. No pictures.

Miscellaneous pix

The box with water paints of Vizier Amenemope. Egypt. New Kingdom. c. 1427 — 1401 BC Cleveland Museum of Art. This paint box still preserves its original cakes of pigment: one cake each of red (red ocher), blue (Egyptian blue), green (a mixture of Egyptian blue, yellow ocher, and orpiment) and two of black (carbon black, from charcoal). It belonged to Amenemope, who was vizier, or prime minister, under Amenhotep II. Amenemope probably used his paint box for recreation. — Now that’s some long lasting pigment!

Music – Medieval Llibre Vermell de Montserrat Alla Francesca Instruments du Moyen Age

Links

St Cuthbert Gospel: Talismanic Medieval Holy Book Used to Ward off Evil Forces Publicly Revealed – https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/st-cuthbert-gospel-0010775

The pepperpot roof of the Guedelon Chapel.

Funnies

Anja, Aymer (v), Loren, Isabeau (v)

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

ASXLVII = 24
ASXLVIII = 88
ASXLIX = 794
ASL = 2138
ASLI = 731
ASLII = 304
ASLIII – 81 plus 25 pouches for block-printing, 25 unfinished pincushions, 1 sewing kit (except for bone needle), varnished stuff (124)
Total as a Household = 3765 handed off

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October 1, 2018 0

Activities through 9-23-18 Acorn War

Congratulations to the Shire of Mountain’s Edge! They joined the Summits this week and it was made official in a ceremony at the Acorn War this weekend! Welcome! Going from the banner staff to the right you can see Vesta with the Grail, Attila, Eleanor, someone, Turk in the blue robe, Pieras and Louisa (in red). To the left is the populace of Mountain’s Edge, with Tamar in orange who just has a sleeve and a bit of face visible near the middle of the group. The others your scribe does not know.

Loren and Anja are right in the worst of their move, so a number of meetings aren’t happening until next week at the earliest. We did have a project day this week and herbs are happening (although not at the stated time).

Yes, the monthly post is late. It got run over by the moving problems.

Gudrun has worked out her set of problems and moved as of this weekend, which is *really* good! She’s going to be farther away (NE Salem) but in a nice place. She might actually get to 12th Night.

We’re in process of working out who all is going to 12th Night and Anja is also hoping to get to Marya’s elevation at the Tri-Baronial Yule.

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 – 10/21, 11/18, 12/16
Winter Feast Date is 2/17/19

Early Week

Loren and Anja spent time on Monday with some of the woodworking projects that just take sanding and finishing, then on Tuesday, Anja put

some time in on her collarband. (pix below)

Gudrun stopped by with her Mom on Friday to drop off the sewing machine and sewing desk that she was loaned a couple of years back. She doesn’t have room in her new place.

Cookery – Some of the pickles and stew got eaten later in the week when folks visited and we kept right on with consuming pickles and butters. Too busy to do more.

A blast from the past – During the week, this set of pages from a newspaper article was posted on the Dragon’s Mist Facebook group about an event from many years ago. The article includes a bunch of recipes. If you’ve ever heard your scribe talking about her “debating partner”, that’s Ciarain (the guy in the orange) in the photos below.

Sewing– Anja is making steady progress on the neckband.

Friday – Neckband-progress on the 2nd border

Tuesday – Neckband-starting the 2nd border

Sunday, late – Progress

Herb Bunch – … was all watering, harvesting and tending plants. Too much to do before it starts raining!

Project Day – The weather was beautiful and this was the last day of Anja and Loren’s move. Anja was sitting at the shop embroidering while the garden stuff was moved. That means shed and tools and watering equipment that are used for the herb stuffs . The plants are all still at Rayna’s. …and sanding of spoons, butter spreader and bowls happened during the evening, but nothing got finished.

Miscellaneous pix

Another shot of the Mountains Edge ceremony

Detail of the Lion Armor of King Henry II of France Attributed to armorer Benedict Cleze in 1550 AD

Herbalists wildcrafting – c 1564-1584 Pietro Andrea Mattioli Discors, a herbal assembled and illustrated by Gherardo Cibo British Library Add MS 22332 f003r

Strawberry – c 1564-1584 Pietro Andrea Mattioli Discorsi a herbal assembled and illustrated by Gherardo Cibo British Library Add MS 22332 f081v

Genealogy of the Derrer family Nuremberg 1626-1711 in the Getty Museum

Music

Links

7200-year-old-cheesemaking – https://www.realmofhistory.com/2018/09/17/cheese-making-pottery-croatia/
Making Manuscripts – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuNfdHNTv9o&feature=share
Anglo-Saxon era glass bowl – http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/archaeology/art12605
Heraldic Standards – https://threegoldbees.com/collegia-notes/heraldic-standards/
Medieval Board Game Discovered in Secret Passage Under Russian Castle – http://www.belloflostsouls.net/2018/09/medieval-board-game-discovered-in-secret-passage-of-russian-castle.html

Funnies

Anja, Loren, Gudrun, Isabeau (v)

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

ASXLVII = 24
ASXLVIII = 88
ASXLIX = 794
ASL = 2138
ASLI = 731
ASLII = 304
ASLIII – 81 plus 25 pouches for block-printing, 25 unfinished pincushions, 1 sewing kit (except for bone needle), varnished stuff (124)
Total as a Household = 3765 handed off

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Last updated 10/24/18

September 24, 2018 1

Activities through 9-16-18 – Summits Fall Coronet & Potluck

For being really tired starting the week, and an event that wasn’t supposed to happen, this turned into something spectacular!

Yeah, Anja and Loren were both really wiped out from the Shrewsbury weekend demo and driving and then out to Coronet and back, twice for Loren during the weekend, was a lot of driving, but wow!

Oh, not that the House did a lot this week, but look at Saturday’s write-up to see why we’re all so happy!

This week the regular meetings should be on time. It’ll be nice to get back into the groove.

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 – 10/21, 11/18, 12/16
Winter Feast Date is 2/17/19

Early Week – Writing up the report and unpacking started the week and then there was a flurry of activity trying to work out how to get Anja to Coronet and still get the potluck cookery done. Well, a lot had been put together over the last few weeks.

More pix showed up from Crown and a few more from Shrewsbury. That’s Anja in the food tent setting out the fig rennet cheese. >>>>>>

…and below demonstrating carving techniques to a fascinated small person… and look at the basket on his dad’s back! He’s had it for quite awhile, he says.

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Anja had an Embellisher’s Guild meeting online on Wednesday evening. There’s a project to set up largesse for a presentation at 12th Night, online classes, report on the Crown meeting, online challenges, and a lot more.

Sewing – Was all on the collarband. After pecking at it all week, court on Saturday gave the best time to work on it.

Herbly things – We harvested a *lot* of plantain seed this week, intending to try it in a bread, which didn’t happen.

Coronet, Friday – Anja

…and then I couldn’t find my split rings and then I couldn’t find my tunic and then something else disappeared…. all the while Tempus was making bread. Eventually, I had enough pieces for the weekend, so I finished packing.

…and then he had to get oil for the car and our card got declined…. apparently compromised… and we were already 1/2 an hour past when I had to leave.

We finally got going at 6…. We had a nice drive, and it was only just getting dark once I was at the site. Summits Court happened fairly soon after, mostly officer changes. The Moon and the stars and planets were gorgeous, but I was getting awfully tired. Yseult, Emma and I left the site early enough that I was crawling into bed at 10pm. I slept pretty well, on a hide-a-bed with an air mattress on it.

Coronet, Saturday – Anja

This was a huge day! So much going on! So much happy!

Me, looking very fat and rumpled, working on my butter spreader.

I was up early, pretty excited about the day. I knew it was too early to disturb anyone else, so I browsed the library shelves (me and books, I swear….) and found a book on musical instruments and curled up with it for an hour or so. When Yseult knocked on the door I was so into the book that I actually yelped. 🙂 Quietly, thank goodness. 🙂 So, I got a shower and when I went out we had some breakfast of smoked steelhead from Market of Choice (really, really good!) and pear sauce that was made of pears so perfectly ripe that it was delicious with no sugar or spicing, just as is! That’s *good* pears!

We headed out and picked up Emma on the way. Once on-site, we headed for the A&S pavilion and Yseult hurried off to meetings. It seemed like she never got a break from those, which I know isn’t true, but still…. Emma and I worked on set-up and Antonia once she was there and gradually we got things together. Alan brought some things and wandered through with a horn, at one point, honking it during Court, several times. 🙂 Taran brought her Cranach gown and the self-portrait that goes with it, among other things, and talked a lot about the styles and some of her work. Emma had some njalbinden displayed and spinning things. No fish helmet this time, though. 🙂 Antonia was painting a charter and making paints and such during the day. She got handed a bunch to work on, too. I know Louisa was working on something, but never did see what, most likely embroidery, since hers is lovely. I had my spoons and mostly finished the carving on the butter spreader and worked on the handle of one spoon. When my hands gave out, I got going on the collar band and then kept working on that during court.

I had a lot of fun giving out some of the coins that I got from Alpha Officium. Lots of them went to the fighters that I know for luck and others to various people that I know who’ve done cool things in the past. It was nice to be able to do that with something small, so that folks didn’t feel obligated, although Aelfgifu gave me one of her coins in exchange. I’m going to get Loren to make me a special box for that one. She looked better than she has in the past, although still a little dragged down, poor girl. I wish her health would improve and stay that way.

Spoons, display at the top, tools in the middle, in process at the bottom.

I got to waggle my Lion’s Strength belt at Finn, and give him a hug and thank you in person (and a coin. 🙂 …and to say hi to a lot of other people that I haven’t seen for awhile.

A&S was right on the eric, which was great, although Antonia missed the announcement about not crossing the space during the thrown weapons tourney… but they called “Hold!” in good time. No one’s weapons went into the net, in any case, but they were being very careful. It’s the first time I’ve seen Thrown Weapons out where you can see, rather than tucked behind and off to the side.

The Coronet tourney was beautiful to watch, as usual. Njal and Sif are the new Heirs!

Then, Court… omgs court! Iurii and I sat together and kibbitzed while I embroidered and Alys was on my other side inkle-weaving.

A lot of the things that happened were with officer changes and oaths and various awards for people that I mostly didn’t know. Some throne favors and barberries and such were given out, and of course, the Heirs sworn and the other awards from the tourney given. The auction stuff was announced and the pottery set that Their Highnesses are holding in the pic brought in something like $350,

the total coming up to over $1600 for the Travel Coronets Fund. Their Majesties giving 1st-timers some goodies and Her Majesty taking the children off to rummage through her treasure chest were two highlights of that part. Vesta was the grail-bearer and she is so very lovely and *so* dignified…until she gets out her pom-poms, of course. 🙂 The pompoms are how I recognized her during the evening court on Friday. Didn’t even see her behind the Thrones until I saw the pompoms! 🙂

Several kinds of bread and cookies went around during court because the potluck was scheduled for after dark. I had a piece of a yummy braided oat bread, choc chip cookies and then another bit of a honey/wheat bread as the platters were going around. It was just enough to hold everyone through a long court.

Yseult (our “Mama”) was awarded the Argent Crucible for research in the Sciences. So long deserved!

Alex (a young teen from Terra Pomeria) was given

a Leo Minor. Remembering the little kid who had so much trouble controlling himself, that was truly beautiful, and I got teary-eyed. He’s come *such* a very long way, and in the SCA we have ways of saying, “Well done!” that really stick!

The Order of the Laurel was called forward and then Their Majesties called Marya! She hopped up, dropped her cane and darned nearly danced around in a circle, dithering, which was utterly adorable, then her cane got put back into her hand and she was escorted to the front while Court was going absolutely nuts.

Everyone was standing and clapping and screaming and jumping up and down. I’d guess they heard us in town! I was happy-crying again, more because of the joyous noise than even the recognition.

There was more business and then Their Majesties called Vesta forward. I think almost everyone expected another public thank you, and that’s what it started as, with her kneeling as they thanked her. Then the Herald asked the Order of

the Laurel to come forward again. Vesta’s shoulders jerked as though she’d been swatted as she realized what was about to happen. Talk about an ambush award! …and yes, both Marya and Vesta (and also Seamus from before at Crown and Gersvinda, from 3Mtns, who started in Glyn Dwfn) are vigilants for the Order of the Laurel! …and there was as much of a joyous noise as for Marya and as many folks jumping up and down and I absolutely *soaked* the front of my hood, with happy tears.

Summits Laurel ranks are filling up, at last! It’s something that the folks in the apprentice group that I’m part of have been hoping and working for, since before we started the group. We’re getting there! and Marya is technically also 3M,

but… She’s ours.

So, so glad! My heart is full for my friends!

So court ended in hugs and more hugs and back-patting and a whole crowd around Marya and Vesta. It took awhile for me to get through to hug them, too. 🙂 Everyone was so very happy!

Seamus’ vigil and elevation are going to be at 12th Night. No clue yet on Marya’s and Vesta’s, but I’ve offered my help to the folks who are putting them together.

After court, while it was still a little light, those of us who had been in the A&S tent started packing up our things. Antonia had done hers before court and taken off, if I remember correctly, but gradually the tables were cleared and things piled where they could be carted away. Antonia gave me one of her scrap totes and I love the lining!

Marion and I chatted during the interval before everyone started eating (I’ve been asking some questions of the Laurels) and then I asked my questions of Yseult, also. I hadn’t planned on eating at the potluck, not having brought anything, but I sat with the other folks in the pavilion as they were eating and we talked over the day and research projects and books and all. Marion brought some baklava and russian tea cakes that were for the celebrations for the vigilants (that she had known about… 🙂 ) over to the bunch of us in the A&S pavilion. I made a huge hole in the pile of the cakes (oops….not thinking…. just loving them….) and then got a couple of pieces of the baklava, which had been specially made for the non-dairy/non-nut crowd. It was made with sesame seeds and tasted a *lot* like halvah, but without the grainy texture. Since I love halvah… well, I ate too much of the sweets…

Progress – The handle is gradually taking shape

I had a longer wait than I expected and went to call Loren only to discover that the phone was dead, again. William went to charge it for me, but it’s too old a phone, so that didn’t work. Alys loaned me her phone to call and Loren finally answered once he was onsite. I couldn’t find him, but then he called back to say he was by Yseult’s car, which I *thought* I had checked at, but I found someone

Baywood butter spreader – Still very rough

else’s similar car. <sigh> Everyone helped me drag the stuff down there, which was wonderful, since I was hurting quite a bit from the rough ground by that point.

We hugged and said our goodbyes and headed home, talking the whole way over my day, his day and all the stuff that had happened. Both of us were ravenous by the time we hit Florence, so since A&S was already closed we went to McD’s, and then drove straight home, through some rather thick fog along the coast. The Heceta Head Light is shining again.

Project Day – Sunday was a little on the “wow” side, with a lot to do, with unpacking and sorting out some stuff (and putting things back into the shop displays) and after that set up for potluck.

During the afternoon just as we sat down to work on some things, a lady came in who was interested in what we had to say about the SCA among other things.

Anja spent several hours talking with her while working on her butter spreader.

We got the food together for the potluck and got pictures of it and ate, but Anja and Loren were the only ones there, so being tired, we got things put away and went home to bed.

Potluck Menu

Beef Stew
Lentil Pottage
Four butters
- Garlic
- Double Garlic
- Bacon/Blue
- Italian Garlic
Bread (plain white)
Pickles
- White Bean pickle
- Asparagus pickle
- black bean pickle
- turnip and carrot pickle
- ginger/cardamom pickled strawberries
- Cabbage, Shallot and onion pickle

Pickles – Clkwse from bottom left – White Bean pickle, Asprargus pickle, black bean pickle, turnip and carrot pickle – Center is ginger/cardamom pickled strawberries

Cabbage pickled with shallots onion and spices

Miscellaneous pix

Kitty prints in medieval floor tiles of Wormleighton St Mary

Aerial view of Hovelsrud Gård, historic garden reconstruction in Helgøya island, Hedmark, Norway

Music – European Renaissance music compilation mix (XV-XVI th century)

Links

Funnies

Loren, Anja, Amor (V), Gudrun (v)

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

ASXLVII = 24
ASXLVIII = 88
ASXLIX = 794
ASL = 2138
ASLI = 731
ASLII = 304
ASLIII – 56+19(8’s)+6(sil)=81 plus 25 pouches for block-printing, 25 unfinished pincushions, 1 sewing kit (except for bone needle), varnished stuff (124)
Total as a Household = 3739 handed off

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September 18, 2018 2

Activities through 9-9-18 Shrewsbury

Oh, was *this* a full week! From the fig rennet cheese, the usual herbs and sewing during the week through the big effort for the Shrewsbury Ren Faire demo there are a lot of pix below and the write-up.

Special thanks go to Rae Sidisklaus and Isabeau for the linden log, Alan the Bowyer for splitting it and for

Anja’s Mary Rose style spool and needlecase, Alys and Louisa for putting Anja up over Friday night and Eileen for Saturday night! (…and your scribe *always* values her Lord Loren’s packing toting and driving, along with putting up with occasional panics….) …and my goodness Alys, you’ve been coordinating this demo for *how* many years?

We’re not sure what the schedule is going to be this coming weekend, with Coronet and the Potluck. Herb Bunch and Sewing may get dumped if Anja gets to Coronet, but the Potluck will happen as scheduled.

The 4 pieces of linden, for size, those are Loren’s knees and fingers at the top of the pic.

Herb Bunch – At Ancient Light, Saturdays, 11am-1pm (Possibly not this week)
Sewing Time – At Ancient Light, Saturdays, 3-5pm (Possibly not this week)
Project Day – At Ancient Light, Sundays, Noon to 6pm
Next Potluck – 9/16, 10/21
Winter Feast Date is 2/17/19

Moar Crown Tourney

Artisan’s Village

For those who are not in the SCA, or maybe they are but don’t know what’s going on here, this is our annual salute to those of our friends who have gone on before us. Each tassel represents a person who has passed away in the SCA. This year, two acquaintances of mine were added to the rolls: Kate Redstone and Patricia Grey. Several more were added–maybe 2 dozen in all–whose names I did not know. It’s a somber time and there were many, many tears shed. Her Majesty pinned the tassels on as the names were read. – Photo by Anne Asplund and comment by Karen ‘Elewys’ Draper Ostheller

The Riderless Horse – Photo by Anne Asplund

Alina and a horse. Photo by Theresa McGee

Viscountess Temperance Photo by Anne Asplund

Beth Piper and other musiciaions – Photo by Anne Asplund

Artisan’s Village – Beth Piper – photo by Giata Magdalena Albierti

Artisan’s Village – Elisabeth de Besancon – Photo by Wendy Banks McComb

Artisan’s Village – Photo by Wendy Banks McComb

Early Week – This week kinda started on Tuesday….. and most of it was packing for Shrewsbury, except that during the week Anja worked on a cheese, among other foods.

Gudrun’s mundane issue is sorting itself out, which is a big relief.

Cheese-making from the Tacuinam Sanitatis

Cookery – We thought the fig sap rennet didn’t work. Nothing was visibly separating along the sides of the pot, but when Anja lifted the lid, there was a *huge* bubble up of curd! The curd was stirred, rather than cut, then heated to 120F and left at that temp for about 10 minutes while Anja got the cheese vessels set up and together. There wasn’t a lot of room, since other projects (including a non-period carrot soup) had been happening there but she scooped out the curds with the big ladle into the cloth, salting/spicing as she went. That got set aside because more curd, (although little pieces) was floating in the whey. A cloth over the strainer was to catch them as the whey went through the cloth. Best laid plans…. The whey built up, rather than going through the muslin and then the screen tipped into the pot. Ok, try again, screen went into the cookpot and the whey was repoured and again a flood cascaded onto the floor, then again when Anja went to pick up the muslin, it shot out every crevice and fold… Well, she didn’t smell like sour milk, just odd from the rennet.

It’s curds! The pic of the “bubble” didn’t turn out.

Trying to show how it’s separating while being heated. Rotten picture….

Scooping curds to drain (see the drizzle at the bottom center of the scoop?

Ack! Out of focus! This is the first scoop into the cheesecloth

Most of the curds are out. The scooping swirled the liquid in the pot.

All in. Out of focus again. That’ll larn me to not use the tripod!

Hung up. You can see the whey draining at the bottom.

So after hanging for 18 hours I used these instructions for brining. https://tavolamediterranea.com/2017/08/24/making-cheese-romans-columellas-cheese/ She said, 5 Tbsp for 4 cups of water. Our cup was way wider, so we used 8 cups and a heaping 1/2 cup of salt. Instructions said to bring to a rolling boil and then simmer for an hour. There wasn’t quite enough water, but it worked well enough.

Waiting for the brine to come back up to temp.

Hanging to cool. You can kinda see the steam coming off it, just above the dowel end.

Served over the weekend – More on that, below.

Herb Bunch – We got a fern that was rescued from a trash bin re-potted and it’s doing fine. Much like the tiny begonias, ditto, and a number of broken pieces set by to callus. A couple from last week have put out roots and an ice plant got potted of those. We’ve got a couple more cacti to work with, but those need rather special treatment. No workshop on Saturday.

Sewing – Anja got a little time in on a towel that she’s embroidering on Tuesday. Tuesday evening she set up the cuffs and collar band project for Seamus Laurel shirt and started the collar band on Wednesday. No pix until the weekend, though.

Shrewsbury – Food – Anja – I spent Thursday evening making up more foodly things for the weekend, plus Loren cooked a couple of bread loaves. The last pix, of the bacon/blue butter, finished, and the two versions of deviled ham didn’t turn out for some reason, so I tried for pix at the event.

Getting ready, some ingredients, containers and my mini-processor, since I don’t have servants to do the chop/mix!

The secret ingredient in Italian Garlic butter

The chopped garlic and the secret ingredient.

Shrewsbury – Packing – Anja

Early in the day Isabeau finally got in touch with me about the crash space. Isabeau’s been sick all week and is only just now starting to feel better.

During the early afternoon while I packed boxes, Loren started making it possible to put everything in the car. By 5 mostly everything but largesse, food and clothing was ready. The hats display was a bit of an effort. It’s heavy, so were some of the totes and boxes and the suitcase.

The tables had to go in first, two large and one small, along with my walker and then 7 boxes of display demo stuff. The blackwork backing display turned out to be missing the pieces to finish it. No clue where they vanished to.

By 6:30 everything was packed, but not in the car, but we decided to sit down to eat supper. By 7, I was champing at the bit, as usual, but the car was filling up.

You can see the hat rack, peeking through.

Shrewsbury – Friday – Anja – We headed out at around 7:30, stopping for ice and then to pick up our pizza slices from home. The drive was nice. We munched pizza and talked the whole way. The starts were really bright at the site and Mars was amazing.

Loren/Tempus offloaded and we really had a car-full. 7 boxes, two tables, a totes, my regular basket and two more, a cooler, water-bottles, the drink cooler, plus all the little odd pieces that never fit anywhere…. and then a re-think and he also dropped off the tote of blankets and my heavy denim coat…. and it was a good thing he did! We said our farewells for the weekend, then I talked awhile with various folks who were onsite, waiting for the person who was supposed to come find me for my crash space. Who didn’t.

My log (I was expecting a chunk, rather than a log!) had come down from Gate, where it had been dropped off and then taken down to the SCA area by the next SCAdians who came through the gate, “Get this thing off our table!” 🙂 It is a beautiful piece. (pix, farther down)

After awhile it was well past 10pm and obvious I was on-site for the night. Louisa and Alys consulted and the extra cot got put up in their tent for the night. Louisa set it up with my blankets from the car box and an extra-cushy one of hers. I crawled in, fully dressed and she tucked me in. I went immediately to sleep, being really, really tired.

I half-woke several times as car headlights lighted up the tent walls and more times as the fighter-types camped across from us and really loud with their war stories and combat demonstrations. There were no weapons just wildly waving arms, but they were loud, and more than a bit drunk. 🙂 Louisa and Alys didn’t wake me coming in. They were vewy, vewy quiet….

…though a leg cramp dumped me onto the tent floor late in the night after the whole place was silent. Amazingly, I didn’t wake *them*! I crawled out of the tent, since I couldn’t stand, yet, dragging my jacket and walker and shoes. I finally managed to stand up and then walked it off, back and forth along with pathway, bumping and rattling over the hard ground. I managed to find the biffies, too, which was direly necessary by then.

Omgs, the stars! It was worth it to see them! It’s been awhile since I’ve been out at night with an unobstructed view, a clear sky and time to look. I got a bit chilled, so I found my heavy coat and went back out to sit and stare. We have beautiful views of the stars on the coast, too, but at this time of the year it’s usually overcast before dawn. I got a snack (the last of the pizza) and some water and finally got tired enough to go back into the tent and back to bed.

Shrewsbury – Saturday – Anja

The others woke before I did, but I nabbed some bread and cheese and a nectarine and started setting up. Alys was the lovely person who made sure I had coffee, so I wouldn’t disgrace us all. 🙂 There was a tent with potluck foodstuff, so that’s where The cheese was placed. I cut it and grabbed a bit for myself and I *liked* it. It’s a good eating cheese, not too salty, not too crumbly, and dry enough to not be sticky in the mouth. It was all gone, but for scraps and one chunk that I snagged out for Loren, by the time we were done on Sunday!

All of us worked steadily and got our displays up and ready and then most sat for a couple of minutes before the 10am horns started blowing and the parade came through.

Set-up

Setup of my table over toward the games.

…and then the mundanes started through. Whew! We were *busy*! I ended up working with people on blackwork during the day and at least a dozen more took cards to go look at the blogs. Someone at the gate started telling parents with kids about the toys display and we had a *lot* of people who came through with that in mind.

Alan stopped by and gifted me with a Mary Rose style thread spool with the center case for needles! How wonderful! I’ve been lusting after one since the first time I saw one!

The son of the person who is doing largesse for their highnesses picked up the box during the afternoon after I spent awhile getting labels on things.

By the end of the day, and it was hot, everyone was drooping, either from heat or not enough sleep and we were glad to hear the last jousting bouts start (since the crowds thinned) and then the cannons going off at 6.

I got some more to eat of the bread, fruits, pickles, butters and devilled ham and sat still for awhile, myself, swilling water. I had talked to my crash space person, (Eileen) finally, earlier in the day and her son came by to tell me that they were thinking of leaving more around 8pm, than 10, which was fine with me. So after chatting with various around the A&S camp, I headed out with them.

I went to sleep pretty early, but it turned out they had cats, which was fun while the one was in a frenzy over the ties on my gown and smock, but not so fun when my lungs went off in the middle of the night. I had to sit up for several hours, because I would start coughing when I lay down.

When I did, though, I had to convince one of the cats, that my hip was not an appropriate sleeping spot, but then she curled up right in front of my feet and purred until the soreness from hard ground and more standing than my bones like was soothed and I drifted off again, sleeping hard. Apparently, I didn’t even wake when Eileen spoke to me after she first got up.

Shrewsbury – Sunday – Anja

I had a leisurely morning while folks went off on errands and to church, getting to spend some time chatting with Eileen’s son who is quite an intelligent young man. I read a bit, bathed, got myself put together and then we headed for the site. It was as crazy busy as Saturday and stayed pretty steady right until the cannons went off.

I had fun talking with people and seeing how others interacted with the displays. Antonia was right next to me display her painting and scribal work. It was great to actually see a collection of her work, too, since it’s usually one piece at a time, and the demo of how she preps the inks/paints was *great*. I had fun watching when I had a free 30 seconds. 🙂

Antonia made a comment later about things that appeal to folks who are “homozygous for the nerd gene”. <giggling> I gotta remember that phrase!

Anja’s displays

Toys

Alan the Bowyer got my linden log quartered during the day, bless him! …and he also gifted me with one of the beautiful Mary Rose thread winder/needlecases that he does. I’ve been drooling

Looking into the needlecase part of the spool

over these for a couple of years, already. They’re *great*!

I did get one short break where I drooled over some pottery. I really want a couple of the blue Make Mine Pottery mugs, and she has a lovely spouted bowl in the same color. <sigh>

At one point I was talking about my crazy hobbies and mentioned the fig sap rennet cheese to a ‘dane. He was fascinated and left with some instructions on where to find more info and how to do a scalded milk cheese. 🙂 Before we were done talking a couple more people joined the conversation and I went through a lot of the same information, and then a few more…. for an hour I talked cheese. Wow! …and not a darned piece in the display. I have to figure out how to do this one, now. 🙂

During the quieter interludes I was watching what folks looked at. Everything we had drew attention, but when Antonia was there, a lot more was on the ink/paint prep, so that’s a fantastic active demonstration. There was one little guy who fell in love with Antonia’s painting of the guy carrying a castle. He told the parental unit with him, with his eyes very wide and in awed tones. “He’s is pretty-es!” Couldn’t have been more than 3 1/2 years old, and a scribe in the making? 🙂

The displays

Games – A lot of these are House Capuchin’s

As soon as it turned 6pm most of us dumped the heavier Renn garb and got back into t’s and jeans or light skirts. That was a *huge* relief! 4 layers of non-light fabric heavily gathered? It was too hot for that.

The 4 pieces of linden, for size, those are Loren’s knees and fingers at the top of the pic. You can see where Alan had to wrassle the one piece because of a knot.

…and displays were being pulled down pretty quickly. I think I was packed down within 3/4 of an hour and consolidating for another 1/4 in between rest breaks. I got myself some more food (and I actually got breakfast and lunch and an afternoon snack this day), sat down and ate and re-hydrated while others were pulling tablecloths and tapestries, then went back and packed down the food, found suitcase and comp bag and pulled them out and so on. Right after that, they were getting ready to drop the A&S pavilion and the others herced the stuff that I had in the display to the path, dropped the tables and ditto and within another 5 minutes Loren was pulling up in the car!

So I sat and kept track and found things while he packed the car and everyone else was dropping the pavilions, pulling stakes and the like. We were ready to go not too long after sunset, said our farewells and hit the road.

We got to rt 20 before full dark and talked over our weekends all the way home. We stopped to grab a late snack, then hit the shop and unpacked, going home yawningly at nearly midnight.

Project Day – …kinda sorta happened. No pix, no real progress on Loren’s projects, but Alexander from Tymberhavene stopped by and they had fun talking.

Miscellaneous pix

Oh, yes! Photo and banner by Ana de la Sara

Music – Ancient FM again this week! http://www.ancientfm.com/flashplayer.php

Links

A story of stories and Cariadoc of the Bow declaring War on himself and losing ….and the effect that one evening can have on a whole life. https://claytonjcallahan.wordpress.com/2016/10/03/let-me-tell-you-a-story/
A female Renn painter and some bits about her life – https://www.boredpanda.com/painting-susanna-and-the-elders-artemisia-gentileschi
Evidence Of 7,200-Year-Old Cheese Making Found On The Dalmatian Coast – https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2018/09/evidence-of-7200-year-old-cheese-making.html#Fy1ciFqgeI0QfeSz.97
To understand Viking culture, look at their plates – https://www.mprnews.org/story/2017/06/24/viking-culture-food
Beer Yeast Is More ‘Sophisticated’ Than Wine Yeast – http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/nature/beer-yeast/
18th Century Beer – http://www.larsdatter.com/18c/beer.html

New Page on the fig rennet cheese – https://wp.me/P8ngGY-1F9

Funnies

…and found on one of Anja and Loren’s son’s Facebook wall…

Tantum in Gallia

Two Roman commanders were tasked with conquering the Gauls.

One of them, Marcus Maximus, has vigorously trained his fighting men to within an inch of their lives. He thinks he is ready for any eventuality.

The other, more senior commander, goes by Brutus Quintus. He also has highly trained men under his command but he never goes anywhere without a unit of half-naked northern men painted blue. They are, in fact, a group of Pictish barbarians.

On the morning of the battle Marcus Maximus charges forward and destroys the Gauls almost immediately. It is total supremacy on the battlefield and Brutus Quintus just watches it all happen silently without committing a single soldier to the battle.

The following morning the army awakes and there, through some sorcery, is the Gaul army untouched and waiting again for battle. Again Marcus Maximus leads his troops into the fight and wipes out the Gauls only to awaken the next morning to find them magically waiting again.

Five days running Marcus defeats the Gauls and yet each morning his victory is undone by the magics of the Gauls.

Finally on the sixth day Brutus Quintus lines up his troops with his Pictish barbarians in the vanguard. They charge into the Gauls wiping them out. The next morning Marcus Maximus awakens ready to taunt Brutus for his failure but there on the field of battle is all the evidence of the defeated Gauls. Somehow, Brutus Quintus has defeated the Gauls and their magic.

Marcus Maximus looks to Brutus Quintus and asks him, “How did you undo these magics?”

Brutus Quintus calmly replies, “Simple Marcus, you must understand that you need Picts or it didn’t happen.”

Anja, Loren, Gudrun (V), Isabeau (v)

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

ASXLVII = 24
ASXLVIII = 88
ASXLIX = 794
ASL = 2138
ASLI = 731
ASLII = 304
ASLIII – 19+37 = 56 plus 25 pouches for block-printing, 25 unfinished pincushions, 1 sewing kit (except for bone needle), varnished stuff (124)
Total as a Household = 3739 handed off

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Activities through 9-3-18 Crown weekend

Here’s hoping that things start calming down at Anja and Loren’s shop pretty soon! This weekend was something else. We got 1 hour on Sunday to work on projects, so we shoved some things off onto Monday and put this newsletter out late.

The Saturday workshops are not going to happen this week, although there may be some pix of work done at other times. Anja’s going to be at

Shrewsbury, but Loren will be at the shop for Project Day on Sunday until 6pm.

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
Next Potluck – 9/16, 10/21
Winter Feast Date is 2/17/19

Your scribe nearly split a wivet over this one! Found on the Facebook group, “No shit there I was”. Used with permission from the writer.

Gerald Loosehelm – September 6, 2013

No shit, there I was at an event in the mid-eighties in East Texas. The event or the group was called Border March I think, I’m not sure now. Well this was my first big event where I was going to fight in melee and I remember the fighters were broken up into 3 sides.

I was barely wearing legal armor but I was amazed at the armor of one fighter that showed up. Full Gothic plate armor with a pig faced bascinet, completely covered from the toes to the top of his head in stainless steel. He was like a beacon in the sun! Everyone had been joking that the other sides would try to hit him first just to put the first dent/blemish on his perfect armor.

Well I was about 12 feet to his left behind our shield wall when the first melee started. I swear I did not make this up!

As the marshals yelled ‘Lay On!’ I think there must have been as many as 10 fighters from my side that turned around and hit this guy at once. Hard!

All you could hear was “Lay On!”

Clang, Clang, Clang, Clang, Clang, Clang, Clang, Clang, Clang, Clang, Clang, Clang, Clang, Clang, Clang, Clang.

“Mother f%*ker!”

I was laughing so hard that I took a spear to the face and never threw a blow. And that is how I died in my first melee. J

Edit -Jan 25, 2016 – I was reading this and laughing at the memory. That made me think that I was so green of a fighter that I was surprised that I knew which end of the sword to hold. I remember thinking, like most 20 year old kids do, that I was going to be the next big hot-shot fighter.

In the real world…

I was standing there with people I had never met. In better armor than mine, and enough small talk happening around me to understand that I was probably going to be clubbed like a baby seal very soon. I was really so scared that I was afraid I would forget the little bit I knew and would piss my pants as soon as the lines closed. So at the lay-on that shiny guy was killed and I

laughed so hard that I couldn’t stop even after I took a spear to the face.

So because of him and his dying, I have never walked onto a tournament or melee field and was nervous about fighting.

Thank you sir shiny fighter for that service. J

Early Week – The first thing was getting some packages mailed. The collar and cuffs set went one direction and a box of baby things in another. The last of the maple candy went to another friend, although the box was handed off as a thank you for helping with the move.

Planning is going on what to take to Shrewsbury and how Anja is going to stay over. Also Louisa is going to be the feast-crat for Adiantum’s Winter Feast, so we’re coordinating not to mix up the menus for the their feast and ours.

Gudrun got hold of us late in the week. She’s got mundane troubles and needed a shoulder and some advice. Anja and Isabeau talked during the week. Isabeau is helping Anja with a place to stay during Shrewsbury.

Cookery – Black and Salal berries got picked and processed, will go into jam, later. Thursday evening two crocks of cabbage pickle got started, and one crock of just plain chopped cabbage to go into soup and maybe some cole slaw if we get to it soon enough. There was about 1’2 of the pickle broth left, so there will be more to come. 🙂

l-r – Cabbage in water, red cabbage pickle, green cabbage pickle with onion and shallot, pickle broth

Green (mostly) cabbage in water – prepped for soup

Pickle broth, with allspice, garlic, caraway, celery seed, mustard seed, bay

Also, Anja got her sugar molds for some sweeties for the feast!

An Tir Crown Tourney

Round 8 – Sven v Bane Skapti v Sverre Tiernan has the bye Roger v Kjartan

Ninth Round – Sven v Skapti Tiernan v Sverre Kjartan has the bye

10th – Tiernan v Kjartan, Skapti has the Bye into finals.

Huzzah to Prince Kjartan over Duke Skepti in 5/9! by by Landinn de Marest

All Hail the new Heirs to the Throne of An Tir, Duke Kjarten and his lady, ………….!

Seamus, Friend of the House, has been put on vigil for Laurel! Photos by the kind courtesy of Maestra Giata Magdalena Albierti

Seamus is wearing the shirt! (embroidery by Anja, shirt by Onora, Sleeves and codpiece by Louisa and outfit by Ayla

Cropped to show Their Majesties (Her Majesty behind him), Seamus kneeling and Maestro Eduardo (Seamus’ Laurel) kneeling off to the side

Sewing Time – Saturday – …got partly eaten by the Finals of Crown Tourney, but Anja got some stitching time in later. The others there were all ‘Danes.

Amor’s Bracer Project – Saturday – Amor sent some photos through of his bracers. He’s not happy with the result. He had rivets that were too long and kept bending and the leather is too supple for what he’s planning. These might come apart and turn into lining for another, since the leather is light.

Herb Bunch – Various root ends are starting to come up. More garlics got planted and some onion ends, too. On Sunday a number of herbs got harvested, mostly bits and pieces of succulents to replant, but also a bunch of sage and another of eucalyptus were cut and separated to dry …and then the fig sap rennet….

Plantain seed was used as a bread additive

Succulent pieces that are callusing. You can see roots starting on a few.

Succulent starts potted a couple of weeks back. You can see new growth in the center and at the top of the green piece, top left.

Eucalyptus

This geranium is *much* happier, now that it’s re-potted.

See the tiny bit at the top left? That’s a new Christmas Cactus from a busted off leaf!

Project Day – We had a bunch of things planned. Things went sideways. We didn’t even have the milk for the cheese until early evening. It was just Loren and Anja again, so we spent the time in the evening working on the various projects….and didn’t finish, so things went over into Monday.

Project Day – Monday – …and best-laid plans…. Things started slowly on Monday, since we had a lot of mundane cleaning up to do after the crazy weekend. …and then things went crazy *again* so Loren went out to get milk for the cheese at 5:30 pm, while Anja worked on the carrots, and then we were able to get started, finally, at 6:40pm.

We tried for the “flow of milky sap” that the books talk about…. ’nuffin’s… so the branch got peeled and chucked into the milk while it was warming to room temp and a bit over to sit overnight. So this is a “to be continued” for next week’s report!

That’s not the “milky flow of sap” that the article made me expect

Peeling the stick, since the other didn’t work.

…what *is* that scent on my hands from the branch? ….

This is the link to the article…. http://blog.cheesemaking.com/making-rennet-from-fig-sap/

Miscellaneous pix

Christine de Pizan presenting her book to Charles VI the Beloved 1380–1422

ook of Hours MS M.276 fol 60r Images from Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts The Morgan Library & Museum

One of my favorite things about studying the objects historical people used is finding new-to-me, clever ways of managing lives and the stuff which people surrounded themselves with. Found after the River Amstel in Amsterdam was drained, this wire loop holding hooks and eyes for fastening clothes is a brilliant means of keeping small findings from disappearing. It was dated to be from between 1575 and 1650, but over 700,000 objects were found ranging from the ancient world to 2005. Having been annoyed with hooks and eyes scattering in the past, I made my own wire holder for them based on the artifact. https://belowthesurface.amsterdam/en/vondst/NZD1.00077MTL011?index=13589

Another view – https://belowthesurface.amsterdam/en/vondst/NZD1.00077MTL011?index=13589

Music

Other than that, ancientfm was our music this week.

Links

Period candy, “comfits” – http://oakden.co.uk/comfitmaking-delights-for-ladies/

Funnies

Loren, Anja, Gudrun (v), Isabeau (v), Amor (v)

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

ASXLVII = 24
ASXLVIII = 88
ASXLIX = 794
ASL = 2138
ASLI = 731
ASLII = 304
ASLIII – 19 plus 25 pouches for block-printing, 15 (plus 25 unfinished) pincushion, 1 sewing kit (except for bone needle), varnished stuff (124) 7 snap pouch, one double drawstring pouch, 4 brocade pouch
Total as a Household = 3683 handed off

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Activities through 8-26-18

Progress… the Hedeby Bag has gone out and the next one is drawn and ready to cut. The small collar band and cuffs is ready to ship. Leftover food got taken care of and more cheese is being contemplated and researched.

Your scribe discovered that the largesse tab hadn’t

been properly updated since May! So, that got fixed on Thursday.

We’re starting to put the display stuff together for Shrewsbury, which is less than two weeks away and hoping to drop off some largesse stuff at that time. Meetings at the normal times this week, although the Saturday workshops might get

disrupted if tourist traffic is heavy.

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 – 8/19, 9/16, 10/21
Winter Feast Date is 2/17/19

Katherine said it very well. After the upheavals in the last few weeks, I was very glad to see this from the “other side” of SCA reality.

Katherine Lois Beer Napolitano – Shared on Facebook, used with permission, 8/23/18

There has been much going on in the SCA. People talking about their experiences and responding to issues. I’d like to change it up a bit and talk about a different kind of experience with the SCA.

About 9 years or so ago my family joined the SCA in the then shire of Dragons mist in An Tir. We were greeted by the chataline and welcomed into the group. The first big event was coming, AnTir/West war. We had nothing, knew no one and didnt really even know where to start. A lovely household let us join their camp, gave us garb to wear, had us share cooking duties such that we basically only had a couple of meals to cook for the group and a couple to clean up after the rest were shared with the rest of the household and all use the same camp kitchen. It was a fun event and we loved it.

Our lives took us on to another country and another kingdom and shire. Eplaheimr in Drachenwald (Ireland). Far from home and family. We were once again welcomed. We learned much. And we’re accepted as part of the SCA family. Fast forward a few years. My husband was diagnosed stage 4 lung cancer. We weren’t able to attend as much but enjoyed what we could do. He became Albion Herald and loved being able to help people with their heraldry even though physically he wasn’t able to do as much at actual events. Move on a couple more years, to July of 2018, the end was very near. He only told people that he had to resign due to his health, he didn’t tell them that he only had days to live. After spending nearly 2 weeks at the hospital with him I let it be known that he was dying. That he would never leave the hospital. Many, SCA friends stepped in to help me. Many were at events far away as July is prime event season. The word spread rapidly. Royalty called from far away events to thank him for all his service. Awards were given. Of the few friends that were not out of town they wanted to help, they helped at the farm and the hospital one brought is food that was much appriciated after 2 weeks of eating from the mini market at the hospital. But even more important she brought some of the most Awesome hugs. Gentle loving kind and strong enough to help hold together my shattered heart for the few more hours I needed to be strong. Another friend drove from one side of Ireland to the other after work to take my daughter out of the hospital for a break and to get stuff for her so she could take a shower. Then she sat with me in my husband’s room while we waited for him to die. When he died in the early hours of the morning she helped us collect 2 weeks of clutter and pack up the car to go home. She then drove all the way back to her home, showered and went back to work.

These are the kind of people I have found in the SCA. I know that like all families there are problems, people that are not nice, things happen. Please look for the good people, be the good people, protect and nurture members that need it. Change what you can, but don’t forget to be the change you want to see. A smile and a kind word, a loan of garb or a ride to an event, or maybe stepping in to make someone feel safe and welcome, all these are things that mean so much more than you might think. The SCA is a part of my family, warts and all. I will help where I can, change what I can, and be open and welcoming.

I think maybe we need a sign or token that says to all, “I will welcome you as I was welcomed. I will help you as I was helped. I will stand between you and any that would choose to cause you grief.” This is my SCA. And I am willing to work to make it your SCA too.

Katherine Bakere of Eplaheimr

Early Week – Anja finished the Hedeby Bag and sent it off as part of the gift exchange. She added one of her blackworked kiss-lock pouches, a handmade ball, one of the sewing kits with a bone needle in the needlebook and a pearl-headed gold pin, a spoon and a bookmark.

…and heard back from the recipient whose cat ran off with the ball, immediately. 🙂

….and I swiped this from Nathan Miller, who posted it on Monday… You know the tune. 🙂

It’s a world of heralds, a world of peers
It’s a world of shields and a world of spears
There’s so much that we share that it’s time we’re aware
It’s a Knowne Worlde after all!

Cookery – A little research this week and putting leftovers in the freezer, along with washing and sorting the feast dishes.

Sewing – Tuesday – Back to collar and cuffs project and made progress. …and bookmarks

Sewing Time – Saturday – Was just Anja again, although she was discussing things with folks online. One set of bookmarks got their ends and some charms were found for the set. Later she got a bit farther on the last piece for Jerrick’s shirt.

Herb Bunch – No pix this week. Bagging of herbs and discussion happened, but all of those were for Anja and Loren’s shop. Harvest of honeysuckle happened before the workshop time.

Project Day – Went a little sideways because no one showed up but the D&D group that’s meeting at the shop. Anja and Loren went on into the evening with sanding and embroidery.

Miscellaneous pix

Speculum Humanae Salvationis 1427 Cod membr 8 Folio 10r

Music – Guillaume Dufay Journey In Italy

Supremum est mortalibus 0:00
O spirito gentil, tu m’ay percosso (Prepositus Brixiensis) 7:31
Morir desio (Bartholomeus de Bononia) 12:02
Excelsa civitas Vincencia (Bertrandus Ferraguti) 16:41
Quel fronte signorille in paradiso (Guillaume Dufay) 19:27
C’est bien raison de devoir essaucier (Guillaume Dufay) 22:34
Belfiore (Italian anon) 29:22
O felix flos Florencia (Antonious de Civitate) 37:51
Vasilissa ergo gaude (Guillaume Dufay) 41:33
O sancte Sebastiane/O martyr Sebastiane (Dufay) 44:42
Exultet celum laudibus (Dufay) 49:29
Mirandas parit hec urbs,”Imperatrix angelorum” (Dufay) 53:58
O proles Hispanie / O sidus Hispanie (Dufay) 58:05

La Reverdie Enseemble

Painting: Andrea del Castagno, La Cene, ca.1450

Links

Tudor food and eating – https://www.hrp.org.uk/…/history-and…/tudor-food-and-eating/
Drought In Central Europe Reveals Cautionary ‘Hunger Stones’ In Czech River – https://www.npr.org/2018/08/24/641331544/drought-in-central-europe-reveals-cautionary-hunger-stones-in-czech-river
Lincoln County Fiber Arts Group (on Facebook) No clue whether the link will work…. – https://www.facebook.com/groups/2166749533581749/?hc_location=group&__tn__=H-R
The Importance of Capturing a Medieval Aesthetic – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M47pqSmkK1Q&feature=youtu.be
Updated Statement of Core Values – http://socsen.sca.org/updated-statement-of-core-values/

Funnies

Who drinks, sleeps. Who sleeps, sins not. Who sins not, is holy. Therefore to drink is to be holy!

Anja, Loren, Amor (V), Sabrina (V), Amy

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

ASXLVII = 24
ASXLVIII = 88
ASXLIX = 794
ASL = 2138
ASLI = 731
ASLII = 304
ASLIII – 19 plus 25 pouches for block-printing, 15 (plus 25 unfinished) pincushion, 1 sewing kits (except for bone needle), varnished stuff (124) 7 snap pouch, one double drawstring pouch, 4 brocade pouch

Total as a Household = 3683 handed off

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