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Activities through 2-11-18

House Capuchin Shield2…and yes, the pretty pictures are in short supply this week because of camera damage… 😦 We’re limited to Loren’s phone, which mostly does a good job of “blurry”.

Cooking and cooking and cooking and just a little sewing this past week and this week. Feast next Sunday!

  • Sewing Night – At Ancient Light, Thursdays, 6-8pm
  • Feast on 2/18
  • Other regular meetings are on hold this week….
  • Next Potluck – 3/18

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 – The babovki that were made at the tail end of the day on Sunday got baked that night and put away in the freezer for the feast. With Anja’s camera having failed that evening there aren’t any pix.

Rye bread happened Monday night and didn’t work right, so that’s either going into bread dumplings or bread soup. No waste! …and oat flour happened.

Veg from the shopping trip

Tuesday late afternoon into the evening was feast shopping. Loren and Jay went to Cash and Carry, picked up a crockpot, and to Freddie’s. The phone rang and rang at the shop with questions, but we got things resolved.

…and the cherries are the right ones!!!!!

Late Tuesday afternoon a friend stopped at Anja and Loren’s shop and in between phone calls and talking (he’s coming to the feast, too!) she stitched up three more of the kiss-lock pouches.

…and the shopping trip *stuffed* things! The pic is just the vegetables!

Cookery – Wednesday 

  • Herbs ready to chop

    Greens had been harvested during the afternoon: regrown tops from parsnips, onions, turnips and celery, some basil, parsley, oregano, thyme and rosemary and a few carrot and radish tops. These were for the oat pottage.

  • Pea flour got made since we didn’t know there was still most of a cupful. Well, that means we have plenty for the bread.
  • Loren got a batch of rye rolls done. We had miscounted on how many we had, but this gives us enough.
  • A couple of the people from up north offered to make one of the batches of cookies, so a recipe was sent.
  • Ground oats, coarse

    Oat/Leek/Onion/Greens pottage was next and used one of the quarts of beef broth that we had frozen earlier in the month, plus the coarse stuff from the oat flour from Monday. Pretty happy with this soup, a *good* recreation of a late winter pottage! I did leave it a little long before stirring so it’s a tad lumpy, but it tastes pretty good. That was done and boxed up just after midnight.

  • Chicken for borscht was next. Lots of hacky-choppy! Loren washed up the very dirty beet greens and stems after I hacked the bulbs loose. Cutting cabbage, onion, beets and beet stems went on for a couple of hours and left very red hands. The stems make a nice crunch in the soup. The chicken tried to cook this entire time. Granted it started partly frozen, but it never boiled! It was finally cooked, and I pulled the pieces and fridged them and added the broth to the crockpot of borscht vegetables and turned that on to cook overnight at around 2am. Wow, we were tired…

Cookery – Thursday

We did get the borscht finished, adding the spices, cooked barley and picked chicken. Tempus had to dig to make room in the freezer. We got a lot of things put away, too, from the very-very-large shopping run and a lot of things washed and set up, but then ran out of time and oomph to finish much other than supper.

Sewing Time – Thursday – Amy came in late and Anja got some sewing done on the kiss-lock pouches. Amy has the cords made for the feast tokens.

Cookery – Friday

Kolach dough for the třešňový kolachky (cherry buns) happened and they got formed, filled and baked in the evening.

Herb Bunch – Was on the properties of poppy, ferns and cherries.

Sewing Time – Saturday – 2nd pattern of pouches and linings cut. A little happened on the blackworked one. 

Cookery – Saturday

Mak, (poppy-seed filling) andthe cherry filling for babovky got done. I made two batches of the mak and for the 2nd batch of the mak I remembered to put the butter and milk in, first…. Wrong way round takes lots-and-lots-too-much stirring! The cherry filling didn’t have a recipe, so I made it up as I went along and got the sugar amount right on the first try!

Cookery – Sunday

Started with eggs for pickled eggs and a dough for the makovny babovky (poppyseed rings) The eggs took forever to boil! The babovky were formed by 4pm and set aside to rise. The eggs, onion and pickle broth were done around 5pm, but my veg peeler had vanished, so I couldn’t get the beets in. At that point I had to wait for Loren to get back.

Gudrun and I talked on Facebook during the day. She was starting the Shrewsbury cakes.

I picked the crab and dang, it took an *hour* to do two of ’em. Used to be I could do a crab in about 5 minutes. Just as I was finishing that Loren got back and took the detritus out, so it would stop smelling up the shop.

Last of all the babovky went home with us to bake, along with a stack of stuff for the pickle fridge. Next week we feast!

Project Day – …went entirely into feast stuff. Nothing else got worked on at all….

Miscellaneous pix

Music

This Metal and a bit out of period, and if you have problemsbut wonderful.

The statement at the bottom of the page of this on youtube, since it doesn’t show here. “CAUTION! I won’t tolerate any racist, discriminatory or in any other form inappropriate comments! This song neither glorifies war, nor National Socialism, but should be considered as a historical work. ‘No, we don’t glorify anything, we just tell stories about things that have happened.’ (Rikard Sundén, founding member of Sabaton)”

Another interesting one by the same group. This about the Swiss Guard who died to the last man protecting the Pope, Clement VII, on 6 May 1527.

Links – Hoping this will show up for everyone….

Ivan Cauldwell said when he shared this video (on Facebook 2/11/18), “This makes me cry every time I see it…. And this time it is more from sadness than love. The SCA is my home, and I make my family among its members much more than blood. My SCA is a place of love, and with recent events, it has come to light that what I have loved my entire life has given sadness and frustration to many.”

“Another Facebook post I saw it showed a fighter in what was obviously his first suit, it said ‘The SCA is our chosen family, so be the family member a newcomer would choose.'”

“If you are a fighter, fight for what is right.
If you are an artisan, make something beautiful.
If you serve, serve the kingdom and ALL its people.
And above all, make the SCA a better place every event you attend.” (used with permission)

…and this month’s Florilegium: http://www.florilegium.org/files/INFO/Feb-2018.html

Funnies 

Loren, Anja, Amy, Gudrun (V)

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

    • ASXLVII = 24
    • ASXLVIII = 88
    • ASXLIX = 794
    • ASL = 2138
    • ASLI = 731
    • ASLII = 272 plus 25 pouches for block-printing, 14 (plus 27 unfinished) pincushion, 2 sewing kits (except for bone needles), varnished stuff (124) 5 snap pouch, one double drawstring pouch, 4 brocade pouch

Total as a Household = 3630 handed off

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Page Created 1/28/18 & published 2/12/18 (C)M. Bartlett
Last updated 2/12/18

Activities through 2-4-18

House Capuchin Shield2You’d think we hadn’t been working on things this week from the lack of pictures! …but we were. It’s just that most of the things we were doing were cookery and would be repeats….

Our Winter Feast is two weeks from today! Most of the pre-cooking is done and we’re getting equipment together and making the last-minute shopping list.

Tray of egg dumplings ready for freezing

Regular meetings will be happening all week, but if there’s nobody there but Anja and Loren (as all too often of late….) we’ll probably switch over and do some cooking instead. We’re pretty sure that Monday will be a cheese day, since we have tvarog to do, but it might get put off until Thursday/Friday and we’ll do schiz instead.

  • Sewing Night – At Ancient Light, Thursdays, 6-8pm
  • 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 – 3/18
Pincushion top

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

Early Week & Cookery – We made a batch of knedliky on Monday that turned out to be perfect. Even the next day they were really tasty, but we forgot to take pix. Loren made the dough in the breadmaker. Now, all we have to do is to figure out whether we’re making ’em fresh or frozen or what for the feast.

During the week Loren finished making the rye rolls for the feast (they’re being frozen) and started on the barley. Once those are done he’ll be doing batches of breads.

Egg dumplings happened Saturday afternoon. Anja made enough for the feast in a couple of hours, which included an hour for freezing on a cookie sheet.

Sewing Time – Thursday – Anja had been stitching in the early part of the week again, continuing with the snap-top pouches. Apparently the official name of the snap-top thingies is “kiss-locks”. 🙂

Sewing Time – Saturday – More of the same – …and the pix here are manipulated to show the steps better.

Project Day – …started with putting away some things that have been drifting around, mostly tools and materials that aren’t in current use. After that Loren went in back to work on the SCA gear shelves, since we need to space to set up feast gear. Anja got the navy blue with floral stripes purse pinned up, then stuffed a pincushion, then pulled out the purse frame.

We took a break mid-afternoon for some pickles: cabbage, sweet and utopenci (sausage)

After that Anja finished the pouch, then Loren set up a babovka dough as the last thing for the day. …and the camera abruptly died doing the pictures of the babovka…ok, now I gotta get one.

Miscellaneous pix

Music – We’ve been listening to http://www.ancientfm.com/  all week. They have a playlist and a streaming service. …and they’re where we picked up these two musician pix!

An Old Welsh Lullaby – https://www.facebook.com/britishpilgrimage/videos/1662744080484142/

Links

Some lovely pictures and a description of a scribe’s notebook – http://www.openculture.com/2018/02/behold-the-beautiful-pages-from-a-medieval-monks-sketchbook.html

We were looking at these for largesse kits, but not sure they’re actually period. https://snapguide.com/guides/weave-a-little-pouch/

Updated Pages

Winter Feast page – The cookbook is available. https://wp.me/P8ngGY-Hi

Funnies 

Loren, Anja, Gogor (v), Stella (v), Amy, Gudrun (v)

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

    • ASXLVII = 24
    • ASXLVIII = 88
    • ASXLIX = 794
    • ASL = 2138
    • ASLI = 731
    • ASLII = 271 plus 25 pouches for block-printing, 14 (plus 27 unfinished) pincushion, 2 sewing kits (except for bone needles), varnished stuff (124) 6 snap pouch, one double drawstring pouch, 4 brocade pouch

Total as a Household = 3630 handed off

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Page Created 1/28/17 & published 2/4/18 (C)M. Bartlett
Last updated 2/4/18

Activities through 1-28-18

House Capuchin Shield2Folks are concentrating on our Feast enough that other projects have been put aside, or mostly. Loren did make another needle and Anja’s been embroidering. Gudrun has new boots. Amy made povidla for the Feast. Herbs Workshop did some seed and snip starts, though.

2nd half of the brick on and topped and put by.

Meetings are at the normal times this week.

  • Sewing Night – At Ancient Light, Thursdays, 6-8pm
  • Herb Bunch – At Ancient Light, Saturdays, 11am-1pm
  • Sewing Time – At Ancient Light, Saturdays, 3-5pm
  • Project Day – At Ancient Light, Sundays, Noon to 6pm
  • Cheese & Wine – put off until after the Feast.
  • House Capuchin’s Winter Feast Sunday 2/18!
  • Next Potluck – 3/18

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

Early Week – Anja was stitching. Amy made another batch of povidla. Loren found and put….somewhere… the pieces of the tinkle loom, but then carved and finished another bone needle.

Sewing Time – Thursday – …was just Anja, although some people have been asking about learning to darn socks.

Sewing Time – Saturday

Herb Bunch – Was mostly on starting seeds and herbs from slips. We did one tray of succulents and then another of herb slips and some edible gourd seeds. Yes, we’re using newspaper starter pots (you can see the tool for making them in the 2nd photo) and cake boxes as mini-greenhouses.

Now, we wait for things to take or sprout…..

Project Day – Loren hunted for the pieces of the tinkle loom. He put them somewhere when Anja was sorting toys to go to Adiantum’s Mid-Winter Feast. Anja made the garlic cheese. Later in the afternoon, after working on some sewing, she finished the cookbook except for the Wine-Pickled mushrooms recipe.

Miscellaneous pix

Music

Krless – I especially love In Taberna!

Funnies 

Anja, Gudrun, Loren, Amy

divider black grey greek key

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

    • ASXLVII = 24
    • ASXLVIII = 88
    • ASXLIX = 794
    • ASL = 2138
    • ASLI = 731
    • ASLII = 271 plus 25 pouches for block-printing, 14 (plus 27 unfinished) pincushion, 2 sewing kits (except for bone needles), varnished stuff (124) four snap pouch, one double drawstring pouch, 4 brocade pouch

Total as a Household = 3630 handed off

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Page Created 1/15/18 & published 1/28/18 (C)M. Bartlett
Last updated 1/28/18

Activities through 1-21-18 Potluck

House Capuchin Shield2Stuff happens. This week was a good example of when things just don’t go the way you expect them to. We got things done, but the potluck… went sideways and some of the other things we intended to do, also.

As far as we know at the moment, all meetings will be on time this week and on Sunday we’re planning some music. We won’t be baking until Tuesday a week (1/30), since we still need some ingredients.

  • Sewing Night – At Ancient Light, Thursdays, 6-8pm
  • 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
  • The single finished piece from Sunday. The drawstring got threaded and a pull added

    Cheese & Wine – Watch the schedule or the Facebook group! This is going to be irregularly scheduled for when tasks need to occur.

  • Next Potluck – 3/18

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

Loren started the week with another batch of the rye rolls. The recipe makes 12 at time and one gets destroyed to check doneness, so we need a lot of batches. Anja was still home, sewing, sending out feast invites and working on the cookbook.

Cookery – Thursday was Utopenci, pickled sausage. Sounds odd, but it’s a typical Slavic snack. It got done two ways, one with the larger pieces as in: http://www.czechcookbook.com/pickled-sausage-recipe-utopenci/  …and one with 1 inch (approximately) slices. The shop smelled wonderful! It’s not a difficult recipe (and it’s below)

Sewing Time – Thursday – Various pieces done early in the week

…and then a lady brought in a bag of Romney Suffolk wool. It’s carded, clean, gorgeous, and it’s a whole lawn and leaf bag full for $10! omgs…. So we have a good reason to finish mending the spinning wheel and there will be a spinning demo at the feast courtesy of Brandon! Hopefully, he’s going to get Loren started on spinning.

Adiantum’s Mid-Winter Feast – Anja

This was a fun event! It was kinda hard on Loren, since he drove me to Eugene and then hurried back to Waldport to open the shop…and on Isabeau who showed up right at 9pm to pick me up, then snoozed in Newport outside of a friend’s house before heading home in the morning.

I was there pretty early in the event. Loren dropped my boxes off in the classroom and then I set my feast gear up on one of the tables in the feast hall with my basket next to it, since I thought Isabeau might be there earlier than she had a chance to. I sat and talked with various people: to Alan about his lyres, to several others about blackwork and the pieces that I was working on, and to a couple about the toys that I was going to talk about in the class. I also spent lots of time talking up our feast and discussing the research with Marya. I took Yseult/s Skoldenham belt class (I think I horribly mis-spelled that…) and really enjoyed it. I’m going to try some of the braiding today, because everything there was wool.

I got into the classroom not long after Noon, inadvertently booting Ayla 😦 and took my time setting up and sorting things out. I ended up doing the class 3 times over! I had one person who had to leave between 3:30 and 4, another person who did the Women’s March in Eugene, so couldn’t get there until about 3:30, a couple

that took turns with their small person who is only 2yo. (Who ended up adorably crashed out on Dad at the feast, all pink and cream…) …and a number of others involved either in the rapier tourney or other classes or the feast who wandered in and out. A couple of people who couldn’t make it wanted copies of the class handout, too.

I think Alys took this pic, Amy Carpenter. It’s Turk’s back and other folks in the entry hall where her booth was. Pretty sure this is as they were getting ready for the rapier tourney.

…and that was an amazing feast! Far, far too much food, but every single thing was tasty and Nai made me my own piece of chicken, so I could have a main course. …and court, of course, and Antonia won the A&S competition. I got a chance to chat with Turk for a little right as I was leaving, too.

Project Day Potluck – Anja’s take

This whole day went sideways. Everyone that had told me they had planned on coming, got hold of me either late Saturday or Sunday, saying they weren’t going to make it. So I posted on the Facebook group that it wasn’t happening and Stella and Amy never saw the notice! Loren had to go out right when he would have been baking the cabbage rolls, by the original plan, (part of what threw things so far off) to pick up a set of Corning Ware(TM) that I had purchased so that we’d have enough dishes for the feast. We’re still a little short of crock-pots, but I think we’re getting close to having enough, since we’re going to use steam-pans with lids for some of the dishes. I had put off doing the cabbage rolls and other things and put back the cheese, so we ended up having muffins, pretzel bites, utopenci and eventually the sweet & sour cabbage right at the end of the day. The utopenci was determined to not be sour enough, so I made some changes to the recipe. After everyone left I got the cabbage rolls made, (completely forgot to blanch the leaves!) and we took them home to bake. The leaves were tough because of the lack of blanching and a lot of them tore or cracked.

Miscellaneous pix

Music

Álbum: Hespèrion XX : Moyen Âge & Renaissance Artista: Jordi Savall: Hespèrion XX

Links

All kinds of new articles including how to stew a camel, just in case you needed to know…. – http://www.florilegium.org/files/INFO/Jan-2018.html

I hope this comes through. Funny! Facebook links, so I don’t know how well these will read if you’re not on there.

…and Guedelon!

Utopenci, Pickled Sausage

http://www.czechcookbook.com/pickled-sausage-recipe-utopenci/ – By czechcookbook On June 19, 2014

  • Total time: 40 min.
  • Resting in the fridge:
  • With hot liquid 3 days.
  • With cold liquid 7 – 14 days.

Ingredients:

  • 3 cups water
  • 1 cup white vinegar
  • plus 1/4 cup balsamic vinegar
  • 1/2 tsp sugar
  • 1 Tbsp salt
  • 1/2 tsp whole peppercorns (or sub 1 tsp prepared horseradish
  • 1 Tbsp whole all spice
  • 4 bay leaves
  • 2 polish klbasa (13 oz each)
  • 1 onion
  • mustard of your choice
  • 2 quart size wide mouth mason jars

Ingredients:

  1. Cook pickle broth with spices. (1st 7 ingredients)
  2. Keep broth warm while you prep the rest.
  3. Cut each sausage in 6 or 10 pieces.
  4. Peel if needed.
  5. Split, part-way through.
  6. Put mustard in the split.
  7. Slice onion.
  8. Put a piece in each spit bit.
  9. Onion slice in the bottom of the jar.
  10. 2 prepped sausage pieces, then more onion.
  11. Top with onion.
  12. Tuck bay leaves down the sides.
  13. Repeat with 2nd (and 3rd if you do the shorter pieces) 
  14. Pour broth on top, splitting between jars.
  15. Put on lids, let stand ½ hour.
  16. Bang out bubbles and top off, if needed.
  17. Tighten down rings and let cool completely.
  18. Fridge
  19. Peak flavor is 5 days to 2 weeks.

Funnies 

Loren, Anja, Stella, Amy

divider black grey greek key

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

    • ASXLVII = 24
    • ASXLVIII = 88
    • ASXLIX = 794
    • ASL = 2138
    • ASLI = 731
    • ASLII = 271 plus 25 pouches for block-printing, 14 (plus 26 unfinished) pincushion, 2 sewing kits (except for bone needles), varnished stuff (124) three snap pouch, one double drawstring pouch, one brocade

Total as a Household = 3630 handed off

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Page Created 1/6/17 & published 1/22/18 (C)M. Bartlett
Last updated 3/2/21

Activities through 1-14-18

House Capuchin Shield2Sorry for the bad picture quality this week. We’re working with a damaged camera and a different set of software. That’s why the pix are darker than usual and rather greyed (or yellowed) out like the Pickle Fridge pic.

We had a quiet week. Most of the workshops got cancelled when

the “pickle fridge”. bottom right on the door is the new cabbage pickle.

Anja went down sick. She’s better, but not quite well, yet. She’s hoping by the time the next Sewing workshop rolls around she’ll be back at it.

So we’re planning on workshops this week again, more cookery leading to the potluck on Sunday. Feast planning and invites are being accomplished.

  • Sewing Night – At Ancient Light, Thursdays, 6-8pm
  • Herb Bunch – At Ancient Light, Saturdays, 11am-1pm
  • Sewing Time – At Ancient Light, Saturdays, 3-5pm
  • Project Day – At Ancient Light, Sundays, Noon to 6pm
  • Cheese & Wine – Watch the schedule or the Facebook group! This is going to be irregularly scheduled for when tasks need to occur.
  • Next Potluck – 1/21

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/

Out of the SCA History book…..

Steve Jarvis ,Marian Harris and A.m. Brosius. – Preparing to present the finished tapestry at the 30 Year Celebration. This piece was worked with natural dyes as much as possible by Adiantum. Amazing! I remember seeing this. …and we’re now well past 50th year….

Early Week

Cabbage pickle for the feast was the big thing on Monday. Loren got the jars cleaned and then we started in. We ended up with 3 big jars for the feast, and one for us. Next was a beef broth that we needed for holoupky. We made a batch of filling, then a set of the cabbage rolls for ourselves and they turned out really well! I’m glad we finally tracked down a period or arguably period version. There’s quite a bit of left over filling in the freezer, for that.

Cookery – We should have gotten more done this week. We had planned another batch of haloupky, this time with pictures, and some knedliky, but they’re going to have to have their debut next week for the potluck. The problem is that Anja went down sick, which limits what Loren can do, even on breads, although he finally got to some rye rolls on Project Day.

Sewing Times – …were cancelled, because Anja was out, but she worked on some things, anyway.

Herb Bunch – …again, cancelled, but there are some pix from earlier in the week of things that we’re growing for the feast.

12th Night – None of us got to go this year, but we have some pix of Sverre’s Knighting (was Summits Prince last year), Idonia’s Laurelling (used to live in Adiantum where her mother still is and was Alpine Scholar) and Iurii’s (Anja’s brother) tiara win!

Project Day – Gudrun checked in and we did some planning for the feast. She’s going to keep the loaner garb from getting out of control. …and we were trying to work out how to get her copy of the invite posted. …and how to find some <<< bliaut wool or some decent linen for one and a surcoat. …and Anja was working on how to do the “Pheasant head” for the subtlety. That might have gotten worked out with texturing as on the right. Sadb also checked in and is planning to be the one in charge of the solar. Her ankle is immensely better!

Loren made a batch of rye rolls, which he brought home to bake and worked on a bone needle. Anja kept sewing. She’s figuring out how to do the snap purses better each time.

1st attempt…. ew…

The embroidered one… a little better

Miscellaneous pix

Music – Hopefully this one will play for you. It’s a little glitchy in the transitions.

Links

Funnies 

Anja, Loren, Amy, Gudrun (V), Sadb (V)

divider black grey greek key

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

    • ASXLVII = 24
    • ASXLVIII = 88
    • ASXLIX = 794
    • ASL = 2138
    • ASLI = 731
    • ASLII = 271 plus 25 pouches for block-printing, 14 (plus 26 unfinished) pincushion, 2 sewing kits (except for bone needles), varnished stuff (124) three snap pouch, one double drawstring pouch

Total as a Household = 3630 handed off

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Page Created 1/3/17 & published 1/15/18 (C)M. Bartlett
Last updated 1/15/18

Activities through 1-7-18

House Capuchin Shield2This week’s been busy, but really more oriented to the Winter Feast rather than our usual largesse, sewing and project things. Anything else was trying to come up with some new largesse projects and we finally have prezzie pix. …but pickles and more pickles along with a good recipe for holubky and knedliky!

All meetings this week at the usual times and more Feast Food to come!

  • Sewing Night – At Ancient Light, Thursdays, 6-8pm
  • Herb Bunch – At Ancient Light, Saturdays, 11am-1pm
  • Sewing Time – At Ancient Light, Saturdays, 3-5pm
  • Project Day – At Ancient Light, Sundays, Noon to 6pm
  • Cheese & Wine – Watch the schedule or the Facebook group! This is going to be irregularly scheduled for when tasks need to occur.
  • Next Potluck – 1/21

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/

Last one mostly done. The seeds are caraway.

Early Week – Loren and Anja made rye bread rolls (recipe below, as promised) and fried cheese during the early evening Sunday, finishing and eating them as part of their New Year’s celebration. The newsletter, due to technical difficulties, didn’t go out until late Tuesday afternoon. Clipart was happening. This week’s divider is one of the pieces.

The Invitation for the Feast is done and starting to be sent around. (…and below!)

Amor has finally gotten enough equipment together to start learning how to do chain.

The Feast Invitation – Print and pass around, but make sure folks know that we have to have their names on the list!

Cookery – Anja found a source for jiternice (Czech white sausage) and recipes for holoubky (cabbage rolls, both Polish and Czech recipes), and the bread dumplings (to be done in the bread-maker) and even Žabí huby (frog mouth cookies) during the early week. Not sure if they’re feastable at this point. We’re going to try the dumplings for the potluck on the 21st and maybe the holoubky.

Amy got povidla made for the babovka.

Stella did a hot pepper pickled cabbage for Loren. 🙂

The pickles page went up Wednesday Night.

On Saturday a lot of pickles happened (pix below)

Sewing Time – Thursday – Amy showed up for awhile. Same sewing as has been. (No pix)

Sewing Time – Saturday – No one showed up so Anja kept going on pickles. Stella dropped by and then grabbed some cabbage from the store for the pickles and brought it.

Herb Bunch – Started with a talk on preservation techniques before electricity. After that we went on to trying some pickles. We did pickled onions during the workshop time, then made pickle broth later in the day and finally set up the bean pickles.

Onion Pickles (…and bean pickle)

Project Day

Loren was cleaning up in the back from Saturday’s pickles. Anja promptly messed it up again! There was some leftover cheese to be fried and also cabbage pickle to be made. Anja is trying to get the old herbs out of the SCA shelves so that more stuff can get shifted back there. Loren spent a long while crunching mustard seeds for the pickles.

Amy was there for awhile and we talked about flour and tomatoes in period while Anja stitched on the blue pouch again.

…and after she left Anja and Loren went back to pickles and discovered our first failed one. It’s a jar that’s been pecked at (and perfectly fine) since they were made back in October, (last time in December) but they had turned a little strange. Probably it’s the opening and closing of the jar. Commercial pickles are way salty and sour compared to what we’re making, so it stands to reason.

We went through the jars and got them put back into the fridge, along with the newer ones. We transferred a few to smaller jars  and got them labeled. …and just ran out of oomph, so the cabbage will have to wait!

Miscellaneous pix – Clare o’Tarran (Tamra Pryor) had contacted Anja several times over the last several weeks about a mystery package that she was sending. It finally arrived and was opened and this book was in it. Handmade! …and blue! …and snowflakes! The other pic is a giftie from Vesta that’s in constant use (along with one of the Eclipse mugs that were Loren’s and Anja’s Yule goodies!) .

Music

Crumb

Rye Bread Recipe

3 cups rye flour, not packed. 9/8 cups whey, warmed. 1/2 tablespoon (heaping) salt. 2 teaspoons yeast. Pig squeezings to taste, about 1/2 tablespoon in this case. 2 tablespoons sugar and about 1 of molasses. Proof yeast 1/2 an hour with all liquids, sugar and salt, then run through the whole dough cycle. Divide into 6 or 8 pieces and bake on parchment at 350 for about 10 minutes to 15 until there is a distinct color change or until you smell the caraway.

(Anja’s translation of Loren’s odd wording…. “Pig squeezings” = grease saved from cooking bacon.)

New Pages – Pickles Project page is up and running! https://wp.me/p8ngGY-137

Funnies 

Amor (V), Anja, Gogor (V), Loren, Amy, Stella, Gudrun (V)

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

    • ASXLVII = 24
    • ASXLVIII = 88
    • ASXLIX = 794
    • ASL = 2138
    • ASLI = 731
    • ASLII = 271 plus 25 pouches for block-printing, 14 (plus 26 unfinished) pincushion, 2 sewing kits (except for bone needles), varnished stuff (124) one snap pouch, one double drawstring pouch

Total as a Household = 3630 handed off

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The Pickles Project

Over the years we’re done a lot of pickles of various sorts. This page is going to have recipes, pix of the finished product and links to process pix, if we have them, even some links to other folks’ videos.

There are no internal links but this is the order in which the recipes appear and then various galleries of pickle pix are below that and then a list of links to reports where they’re referenced. I’m going to try for the same order, but don’t take bets…

Standard vegetable pickles

  • Basic Pickling Broth
  • Pickled Asparagus
  • Pickled Beans
  • Pickled Beets
  • Pickled Cabbage
  • Pickled Carrots
  • Pickled Cucumbers
  • Pickled Garlic
  • Pickled Mushrooms
  • Pickled Onions
  • Pickled Parsnip
  • Pickled Radish
  • Pickled Squash
  • Pickled Turnips
  • Mixed veg recipes
  • Purchased Pickles – mentions and pix

Non-pickle “Pickles”

  • Pickled Eggs
  • Pickled Sausage
  • Pickled nuts (whut?)
  • Pickled Cheese (whutx2?)

Also, many of the pickles we’ve made are mixtures of various veg, which seems to work one heck of a lot better than just one thing in many cases. So the “mixed” gallery is at the end of this. Each section has recipe (or description of what to add to, or what to change the basic recipe), gallery, then links.

Pickling Broth and General Directions

Basic Pickling Broth – The is the general recipe that’s used for most of our pickles. It’s a modern recipe for what my Baba called, “Winter pickle” and shows up in cold climate cookery, although it’s mostly known from ingredients lists or descriptions, rather than recipes. Always use glass or enameled pots to cook this and glass or heavy plastic (Like TupperwareTM)  to store in! …and watch the “peak” dates on some of these foods. It makes a difference.

Pickling broth – small batch
• dozen garlic cloves
• 1 small onion
• 1 1/2 cup water
• 1 1/4 cup white vinegar
• 1/2 cup sugar
• scant 1/4 cup salt (maybe closer to 1/8, depends on taste)
• 1 Tbsp dill weed
• 1 tsp celery seed
• 1 Tbsp caraway seed (or various)

  1. Peel, stem and root the onions.
  2. Cut in ½, then slice across the grain.
  3. Put into your keeping container
  4. Peel the garlic. Put in the pot.
  5. Add the rest of the ingredients to the pot.
  6. Bring to a boil, stirring well.
  7. Pour into keeping container, once it’s cool enough to handle.
  8. Cool in fridge.
  9. Store in frig, ready to eat next day, keeps several weeks. We’ve saved it as long as 5 months.

We make this stuff by the gallon and add spices to individual pickles as necessary.

Gallon Recipe for Pickling broth – This does not make quite a full gallon and amounts are not exact (not for someone who is OCD, anyway). You can boil some more vinegar to top it up or just leave it.
• 2 garlic bulbs
• 2 lg onion
• 6 cup water
• 5 cup cider vinegar
• 2 cup sugar
• ½-1 cup salt (depends on taste)
• 1/3 cup (may be changed for other spices/herbs)
• 1/3 cup (may be changed for other spices/herbs)
• 1/3 cup caraway seed (may be changed for other spices/herbs)
1. Peel, stem and root the onions.
2. Cut in ½, then slice across the grain.
3. Put into the gallon container. (You can feed ½ ring at a time.)
4. Peel the garlics. Put in the pot.
5. Add the ingredients to the pot.
6. Bring to a boil.
7. Stir well.
8. Pour into gallon container.
9. Repeat with other ½ of ingredients.
10. Cool in fridge.
11. Store in frig, ready to eat next day, keeps several weeks.

The original one that we started from – Cat’s Fridge Pickle

1 1/2 cup water
1 1/4 cup white vinegar
1/2 cup sugar
scant 1/4 cup salt  (maybe closer to 1/8)

  1. Bring to a boil, cool.
  2. Fill container with veggies.  I use mostly sliced cucumbers and add a couple garlic cloves, onion slices and celery stalks with tops for flavor.  I’ve also used green cherry tomatoes.  Bell peppers or asparagus tips might also be good.
  3. Pour cooled vinegar solution over veggies.
  4. Dried dill weed:  I ‘ve never measured, just sprinkle some over, cover and shake and repeat til it looks right.
    Store in frig, ready to eat next day, keeps several weeks.  Glad you enjoyed it!  Love Cat

Pickled Vegetables

Asparagus Pickle – This may be the most yummed-over pickle that we’ve made. Most of them get a “yeah, that’s good!” out of folks, but this one for fans of asparagus is the one they gravitate to and take home. It’s a “short” pickle. It’s good overnight, best from 2-5 days and then deteriorates.

This works best in a tall narrow container.

Rinse off the asparagus. Measure one spear against your container so that the point of the spear is 1/4 inch from the top and cut all the others to that measure. (Ends can be used in soup or stew if peeled.) Put the asparagus in the container, points up, fill with cold broth and put a slice of onion on top so the spears stay down in the broth. Add a little broth to fill it right up and then when you screw down the lid it will run over a bit. (Yes, stand the container in a plate or the sink!) Put in fridge. Can be eaten the 2nd day, but is best from 2-5 days. Beyond that the sulphur compounds develop. (ew….)

Pickled Beans – Are a good way to keep ready-to-eat beans around during the cold months. Most often we’ve done these with the standard pickling broth recipe and canned beans: black, white, kidney and garbanzo.

Basic method is drain and rinse canned beans, put in container and cover with pickling broth. You can play with the spices on these or use lots of onion or garlic, else they’re a touch bland.

Something we twigged to, only recently, is that only broadbeans and garbanzo/chickpeas are Old World. It’s marginally possible that some of the “field peas” that are mentioned are a type of bean that’s been re-labeled, since, and actually existed in the middle ages. It’s hard to tell from the records, and I haven’t seem much that was definitive. It’s also possible that they might have been just a small, mutated broadbean that was only cultivated for a short while.

Pickled Beets – Canned pickled beets are so easy that we’ve depended on those more than making our own, except with the pickled eggs. 

There’s a very good video of how to make traditional Czech pickled beets (canned) on this site. http://www.czechcookbook.com/pickled-beets-zavarena-cervena-repa/

Pickled Cabbage – Most people just say “sauerkraut” as soon as you mention this, but pickled cabbage is a distinctly different flavor from the fermented type. It has more spice than sour and is crunchy. This is not our standard recipe, but based on Townsend’s. The Red Cabbage Pickle made later on was the standard pickling broth.

Pickled Cabbage

  • medium head of cabbage (or 2 pkg deli slaw mix)
  • 2 onion
  • 4 Ball jars
  • 8 cups vinegar
  • 4 cups water
  • 1 cup salt
  • 1 ½ cup sugar
  • Caraway, Black Mustard Seed, Celery seed, Allspice, Clove (jars), Ginger (jars)
  1. Shred Cabbage.
  2. Put about a 1” layer into your jar and pound on it to pack it down.
  3. Add a thin slice of onion.
  4. Repeat until that jar is full, then do the rest.
  5. Add 5 whole cloves, 2 whole allspice and a good slice of ginger to the top of each jar.
  6. Put the vinegar and the rest into a large pot and bring to a boil.
  7. Pour over the cabbage and lay the lid on loosely.
  8. Let sit for half an hour.
  9. Bang the jars on the table to get the bubbles out and then fill right to the brim with the broth, so that when the lids were screwed down they run over a touch. You’re trying to exclude as much air as possible.
  10. Again, lay the lids on loosely and when cool, screw them down, then put the pickles in the fridge.
  11. Wait at least 3 days before serving.

Pickled Carrot – We’ve mixed these with other vegetables most often, but have made them by themselves, just to try them. These are just the standard pickling broth and method.

Pickled cauliflower – We’ve only made this once, right at the beginning, and it was forgettable enough that I didn’t even remember it until I saw it in the picture and write-up. I think this is because it’s a touch bland and we have done much with pickling peppers, which are the usual accompaniment in the grocery.

  • Cauliflower – http://wp.me/p4yKTJ-6y – from when we were first experimenting with pickles! mention, but doesn’t show the pickle

Pickled Cucumber – We haven’t done a lot with cucumber pickles, mostly because they’re so common and easily purchased. Not only that, the group seems to be far more fond of fresh cucumber slices in sour cream with dill!

  • Pickled cucumber, onion, carrot and turnip – http://wp.me/p4yKTJ-6y – from when we were first experimenting with pickles! Big picture and mention

Pickled Jicama – This has been added to a number of other pickles made with the standard method, but is only mentioned in one place. Every time we make this, though, people go hunting for more of it! The only problem is that it’s a 7-day-pickle. Good the day after it’s made, peaks a day or two later and after a week, toss it!

Pickled Mushrooms – These are a common pickle for us to make and we’re tried several different recipes.

Pikld Funges – an old (probably badly researched) pickle recipe from the 70’s

  • Original recipe makes 8 servings
  • 1 onion, thinly sliced
  • 1/3 cup red wine vinegar
  • 1/3 cup vegetable oil
  • 1 tablespoon brown sugar
  • 1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
  • 2 (12 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. Drain before serving.

Pickled mushrooms (Anja)

  • 3 cups apple cider vinegar
  • 1 ½ cups water
  • ¾ cup brown sugar
  • 1/8 – ¼ cup salt
  • 2 Tbsp mustard seed
  • 1 Tbsp caraway seed
  • 1 medium onion
  • ½ pound of fresh sliced mushrooms
  1. Start the vinegar, water, sugar and salt in a pot on the stove and bring to a boil, stirring to make sure the sugar dissolves and doesn’t stick.
  2. While that’s going grind the mustard and then add the caraway and grind some more.
  3. Add to the pot
  4. Slice the onion and add that.
  5. Add the mushrooms.
  6. When it comes back to a boil, turn to low, cover and let simmer until the mushrooms and onions look cooked, 20 minutes to ½ an hour.
  7. Put hot into a canning jar and screw the lid down.
  8. Loosen the lid every half hour until it’s only warm to the touch, no longer hot, then refrigerate. When cold, tighten the ring down.

Pickled MushroomsMar11,2017 by Mistress Leoba of Lecelade (Anja’s note – Either we didn’t follow her recipe well, or something in the ingredients was amiss, beyond the sub of horseradish for pepper. These were *far* too strong for most people and a little bitter. )

TO PICKLE MUSHROOMS
Take your Buttons, clean ym with a spunge & put ym in cold water as you clean ym, then put ym dry in a stewpan & shake a handfull of salt over ym, yn stew ym in their own liquor till they are a little tender; then strain ym from ye liquor & put ym upon a cloath to dry till they are quite cold. Make your pickle before you do your Mushrooms, yt it may be quite cold before you put ym in. The pickle must be made with White-Wine, White-Pepper, quarter’d Nutmeg, a Blade of Mace, & a Race of ginger.

Take your Buttons, clean then with a spunge and put them in cold water as you clean them, then put them dry in a stewpan and shake a handful of salt over them, then stew them in their own liquor till they are a little tender; then strain them from the liquor and put them upon a cloth to dry until they are quite cold. Make your pickle before you do your mushrooms, so it may be quite cold before you put them in. The pickle must be made with white wine, white pepper, quartered nutmeg, a blade of mace, and a race of ginger.

Contrary to popular belief, there were some vegetables that were extremely popular in Elizabethan times. One dish that was becoming more popular was the Sallat, which like modern salads were composed of leaves, vegetables such as cucumbers and mushrooms, nuts and dried fruits. They were arranged to look beautiful on a plate, but of course there were times of year when popular sallat foods simply weren’t available. This is where pickling recipes like this one would have come in – in the autumn when mushrooms were plentiful, they would have been gathered and pickled en-masse to be available all year round.

Ingredients

  • 5kg mushrooms – 11lb
  • 1 tsp white pepper corns
  • 500mL white wine – 17 oz, a generous pint
  • 1/4 of a whole nutmeg
  • 1/2 cup of salt
  • 1/2 tsp mace
  • 1 piece dried ginger

Method

  1. In a mortar and pestle, roughly crush the pepper corns and mace. Using a grater, grate the ginger and the nutmeg (grate a whole nutmeg until you have used a quarter of it).
  2. Put the spices and the wine in a pot and bring to the boil. Reduce to a simmer and cook for about 10 minutes, then leave to cool completely.
  3. Wash the mushrooms and remove the stalks.
  4. Put the mushrooms in a heavy bottomed pan, then throw the salt over them. Heat the mushrooms well and cook, stirring frequently, until the mushrooms have coloured and shrunk considerably. A lot of liquid will leach out of them.
  5. Strain the mushrooms, and put on a towel so they can dry and cool.
  6. When both the mushrooms and pickling wine are completely cool, put the mushrooms into a sterilised jar and pour over the pickling liquid. If there is any spice residue, pack this on top. Ensure the mushrooms are completely covered by the liquid.
  7. Keep the jar of mushrooms in a cool, dark place and leave to steep – the longer they steep the better.

Notes

Lady Fettiplace would not have had access to fresh ginger, and if you can find whole dried ginger it’s a revelation. I found some in an Indian grocers and it smells incredible.

Mace and nutmeg come from the same plant, Myrstica fragrans. Nutmeg is the seed in the middle of the fruit, and mace is a lacy membrane that surrounds this seed. Even though they come from the same plant, they have quite different tastes, and you can’t really substitute extra nutmeg for mace.

You will lose a lot of volume from the mushrooms as you are stewing them in the salt. We lost over 600g of weight – at the end of the process, we had 830g of mushrooms after starting out with 1.5kg.

Pickled Onions – We’ve only done these once by themselves, so far, even if onions end up in most of the pickles that we do. We used pearl onions, going by a Townsend’s method, but I think that plain red onions are going to have to get tried, at some point.

Townsend’s Method

  • Pearl Onions (we used one bag….way too few)
  • Malt vinegar ½ a pipkin, maybe a couple of cups? (We used distilled)
  • Salt oz
  • ½ tsp peppercorn
  • 3-4 clove
  • Tbsp. sliced fresh ginger
  • allspice
  • bayleaf
  1. Scald and peel onions
  2. Put the bayleaf in your jar
  3. Add onions when cool.
  4. Heat Malt vinegar with the spices.
  5. Pour over onions and seal

Pickled Radish – These have always been used as extras in other pickles. Something to try in the future!

Not made by us, but served at feasts or potlucks

Non-pickle Pickled Things

Pickled Eggs – These are a favorite and have been made many, many times. A lot of the time these have been made as a “cheat”, where you take hard-boiled, peeled and cooled eggs, dump a can of purchased pickled beets over the top, top up with pickle broth and call it good! I’ve made them with plain beets added to the broth, as in the recipe, but apparently not for our potlucks or feasts….or at least not that I can tell from the reports and pictures. Probably a time thing…

To make the eggs and beet pickle it depends a little on what you want. The easy method is to hard-boil and peel your eggs and pour 1 cup of pickle broth to 1 can of pickled beets in with the eggs. Make sure they’re covered by the broth. The harder method is to peel chop and boil raw beets in with the broth (simmer until cooked) and then add that to the eggs, adding plain pickle to cover the eggs. For this feast, I also added a can of plain sliced cooked beets and the eggs used were duck eggs from the DuckMeister! (omgs, good!)

Cheat method

Pickled Sausage – We haven’t tried this, yet, but it sounds intriguing. http://www.czechcookbook.com/pickled-sausage-recipe-utopenci/

Pickled Nuts – – This smells wonderful and tasted pretty good. Anja has a walnut allergy, so the two nuts were separated and the pecans that she can eat were done first.

Pickled nuts – Anja has done candied nuts for decades, but hasn’t found pickled ones, anywhere, despite remembering eating them as a kid. The only recipes online were either for what she would call “candied nuts” or for green walnuts, so she decided to experiment.

  • 2 cup apple cider vinegar
  • ¼ cup salt
  • 2 cup white sugar
  • 2 cups whole walnuts
  • ½ cup whole pecans
  • Cardamom, cinnamon, chopped nutmeg, whole allspice (no, I didn’t measure)
  1. Boil, then turn to simmer.
  2. Add pecans. Cook 5. Skim off into jar. Fill with broth.
  3. Add walnuts. Cook 10. Skim off into jar. Fill with broth. Wasn’t quite enough broth to cover so added some water and honey. .

Pickled Pecans/Walnuts – https://wp.me/p8ngGY-UI – A few process pix, plus others, recipe

Pickled Cheese – Only just tried this one from this recipe. The texture is odd, though. …and we didn’t have glass but tupperware, and had to replace the peppers with horseradish. …and yes, the translations are awkward at best.

Nakladany Syr – Pickled cheese isn’t really pickled the way we think of pickles. It’s an altered cheese, soaked in herb-infused oil. This is something that Anja ate in Prague and remembered from her childhood.

Nakladany Hermelin – Pickled Cheese – Nakladany Hermelin or Pickled cheese is popular pub snack that comes with beer. It’s prepared from Hermelín cheese (literally means “ermine”) a Czech version of Camembert cheese. As always there are many different recipes and ingredients. Let’s try a basic homemade pickled cheese. Pickled cheese is served with bread and cold beer. Nakladany hermelin can stay in your fridge for several weeks. (from http://www.czechcuisine.net/nakladany-hermelin-pickled-cheese/ )

Ingredients

  • big mason jar
  • 6-8 pieces of Camembert like cheese
  • 3-4 onions
  • 8 cloves of garlic
  • peppercorns
  • allspice
  • bayleaf
  • hot peppers (goat horns peppers)
  • 1 teaspoon of paprika or chilli
  • salt
  • oil (sunflower oil)

Directions

  1. Slice each cheese in the middle. Slice onion.
  2. Cover each cheese slice with paprika (or chilli), minced garlic and salt. Put the slices back together.
  3. Put in jar some onion, bayleaf, few peppercorns and allspice, then 2-3 cheeses and hot pepper. Again onion and repeat layers until the jar is filled up.
  4. Pour oil in the jar so every ingredient is submerged.
  5. Close jar and put in fridge for 3-5 days.
  6. Pickled cheese is served with bread and cold beer. Nakladany hermelin can stay in your fridge for several weeks.

Our version, Nakledny syr

Ingredients

  • Tupperware cold cuts box
  • 2 pound round brie
  • 2 onions
  • 4 heaping soup spoons of garlic
  • 5 dollops horseradish sauce
  • 4 bayleaf
  • 1 Tbsp mixed oregano and basil
  • oil (mix of olive and peanut)

Directions

  1. Slice cheese in the middle.
  2. Slice onion.
  3. Cover bottom of box with one onion, bayleaves and garlic and ½ the oregano/basil mix
  4. Put garlic in between with caraway
  5. Repeat the bottom on the top.
  6. Pour in oil so every ingredient is submerged.
  7. Put on cover and put in fridge for 3-5 days.

Best pickled hermelin – The best pickled hermelin you’ve ever eaten. I have a recipe from the scout camp at Franco’s Ironworks. – 25 min prep time – https://recepty.vareni.cz/nejlepsi-nakladany-hermelin/

Ingredients

Preparation process

  1. We spread all hermelines lengthwise. Spread the inside with a lot of red pepper. Mix the garlic and some salt in the dish, mix the mixture with the cream cheese, pepperoni and chopped garlic. Then we overlap the hermelin and squeeze it a little so that it does not break into the glass.
  2. A suitable container in which the hermelins will be ripened will be filled with about a quarter of the oil and add part of the spices, chopped onions and hot peppers. Put 2 – 3 hermelins in the pot, add oil and add some spices, peppers and onions. This is repeated until all the hermelins are dipped in oil together with the other ingredients. We shake the filled glass well enough to allow excess air to evaporate, and spice mixed with oil.
  3. Place the hermelines in a dark room with room temperature. Once a day, shake and save it again. Let them ripen for about 2 weeks but no longer than 6. After two weeks we can taste if they are ripe, store them in the refrigerator.
  4. I recommend the best pickled hermelin with fresh bread and chilled beer.
  5. Tip: Any fungal cheese can be loaded in this way.

Great pickled hermelin – https://recepty.vareni.cz/vyborny-nakladany-hermelin/ – Recipe for excellent homemade pickled hermelin, which will be guaranteed success. – 25 min

Ingredients

Preparation process

  1. Mix the crushed garlic with salt, sweet pepper and chili in a bowl. We’ll leave three cloves of garlic in the whole for later. Spread the hemlings lengthwise and rub them on both sides with a prepared garlic palette. Add a couple of slices of chopped onion to each hermelin. Both halves of hermelin are firmly attached to each other.
  2. Place a little onion on the bottom of the glass (both kinds) and lay the first hermelin on it. Add a few peppers, new spices, and another batch of onions. With layering, we continue to the end. Add chili peppers, cloves of garlic and bay leaves along the hermelin.
  3. After filling the glass, pour the hermelins with oil. Even the upper hermelin must be submerged! We close the glass and try to get rid of any air bubbles (gentle blows on the glass). Pour over loaf overnight at room temperature, put it in the fridge in the morning and serve in 5 days.
  4. Excellent pickled hermelin served with bread.

Our Naklady Syr – https://wp.me/p8ngGY-10M – Recipe, process pix.

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Activities through 12-31-17 Tymberhavene Yule

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Oh what a *mess* the holidays make! Lots of yummy food. Lots of icky dishes…. but recipes that worked and folks were able to follow!

Stella and Anja got to Tymberhavene’s Yule and had a great time. That meant that the Saturday workshops didn’t happen. This week there aren’t any interferences with workshops, so we’re starting the year right. 🙂

Pouches for largesse

Hoping you had a great holiday and are ready for a fantastic year!

  • Sewing Night – At Ancient Light, Thursdays, 6-8pm
  • Herb Bunch – At Ancient Light, Saturdays, 11am-1pm
  • Sewing Time – At Ancient Light, Saturdays, 3-5pm
  • Project Day – At Ancient Light, Sundays, Noon to 6pm
  • Cheese & Wine – Watch the schedule or the Facebook group! This is going to be irregularly scheduled for when tasks need to occur.
  • Next Potluck – 1/21

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 – ….mostly got eaten by the holiday. Sash got to try frying cheese at home. No pix. Amor made rohlicky for his buddies at work and in the process of discussing how they went, Anja realized that he had the “tough cookie” recipe, not the one that she prefers. They got to talk cookies online for a long while Christmas night and then again on Wednesday.

Also, in the course of the talk and looking up and comparing recipes, they ran across wooden molds for this type of cookie. Wooden cookie molds were a big thing in late period Bohemia. They’re a time-saver!

Also, Anja was parceling out the various foods to House members that need to be made up for the feast with due dates…

…and Anja and Loren had a great lunch date with Louisa and Vesta in Eugene on the day after Christmas.

Cookery – So, schiz happened and spiced nuts, and then flatbreads and fried cheese.

Sewing Time – Thursday – Anja is still pecking away at that blue on blue piece and the secret project is proceeding. Thursday night the machine sewing of some largesse pouches was finished and then on Friday the strings and pulls added so they could be handed off on Saturday. …and I’m dropping the photos from the whole week of these things in this section, even though the sewing happened on Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

Saturday – Tymberhavene Yule Feast – (Photos by Phil Slaughter and Hilary Clayton, except for the rainbow and clipart)

Anja’s take – We had gotten to the shop at about 7:30 and I got into my garb, while Tempus was getting coffee. We were almost ready when Stella got there, except for the bean pottage that I had made for the lunch potluck, which Loren was getting into the tote. When we all went outside and were getting things into the car, we started exclaiming over the pieces of rainbow appearing in the sky and then it got better and better and more complete until there was a full-on bright double rainbow spanned across the sky. We stood and watched it because it was too awesome to not!

Eventually we got on the road and had a good drive, only stopping for gas and munchies in Florence. It was a beautiful day for a drive, bright and clear after the early cloud. As we drove up the seawall the rainbow spanned the bay and ended up right in the bridge! After it disappeared we were still captivated by views of sparkling ocean and beautiful cloud.

Doing Trenchmore!

We had fun at the event. I stitched on one thing or another most of the day. Stella played her guitar and got into the dance workshop >> which was a tremendous amount of fun to watch. Marcus did a good pin class. I’ve heard it before of course, but he’s added some documentation that he didn’t have before. There was a fellow playing at lute off and on during the day (the new branch seneschal!)

It was an interesting site, an old Boy Scout Camp with 1910 over the fireplace (which fire was very welcome in the evening) Very thin-walled, but looking very medieval until you rounded the corner into the kitchen, and their decorations were spectacular. I think I recognized some bits from Diane’s shop, the same way we use some of our shop stock for feasts. 🙂 I did the cat-in-catnip thing with one of the clove-studded tangerines that I got to take home and started to eat last night.

Aren’t those lovely? I got to talk to a number of old friends and a new couple (new to me) Carol (or Karen…) and Tom, who are from Langlois and run a gallery. They don’t get to many events, any more than Diane (Mossy Rose) or Loren and I do. Pix of Stella and me and others….

Seamus got a fun surprise. There was a fellow (Prince Snorri of the Mists) who then sat at the head table with His Highness.

My bean pottage was a hit and the feast was lovely with onion soup, chicken, ham, meat pies, sweet carrots, a yummy cabbage dish, a selection of breads and cheeses, and cake, apple pie and a delicious custard and blackberry pudding to finish it off with.

…and more friends and cool stuff.

The cook! That’s Alexander.

We headed out before Stella got too stuffed to be alert when driving …and then the drive home was spectacular! The sky had completely cleared and the stars were amazingly bright and the Moon floating high and lovely, swelling towards the full. Every lake we went past was clear and still, reflecting trees and sky…and stars… how often do you get to see that? We stopped at an overlook and watched the ocean for a bit until we got too tired. Other than that, we had stopped for gas in Reedsport, but just rolled on home.

The Sea Moose

We had gotten in somewhere 9:30-ish and Stella and Tempus unloaded. I spent awhile putting things away and changing out of my outfit, although we left some stuff for morning.

….and more pix.

Project Day – …started with an intense discussion of late period clocks leading up to the cuckoo clocks and methods to research those. Some embroidery happened…

Loren spent some time getting ready and then started the rye bread. Anja was going to take 1 or 2 portions to try to make flatbread of them.

We did fry one, and it was tasty, hot, but once cold, a little too chewy and a touch greasy…. probably not going to use those at the feast…. not good enough to spend the time.

The rolls that were baked in the oven, though, yummers! More on that is going into next week’s report and below.

Rye bread – Anja wanted to try making blini of bread dough, and we wanted another rye loaf to try and to make crumbs of.

Making dough

The fried one – The verdict was “tasty when warm”

The baked one – The verdict was, “Perfect!”

…and we fried some cheese to go with.

Loren was researching and found some interesting information on these sites.

Miscellaneous pix

Music

Our Stella’s version of the Parting Glass – https://soundcloud.com/stella-blue-1/the-parting-glass-traditional

New and Updated Pages – The new pages have not been posted yet. Probably Tuesday night, so check back on Wednesday. 

Pickles Page is going up here: https://wp.me/p8ngGY-137

…and Breads here: https://wp.me/p8ngGY-13j

Funnies 

Largesse to Principality

  • 8 beige brocade XL pouches
  • 1 blue velour pouch trimmed with Summits ribbon. (no pic)

Anja, Loren, Stella, Gudrun(V), Gogor(V)

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

    • ASXLVII = 24
    • ASXLVIII = 88
    • ASXLIX = 794
    • ASL = 2138
    • ASLI = 731
    • ASLII = 262+9=271 plus 25 pouches for block-printing, 14 (plus 26 unfinished), 2 sewing kits (except for bone needles), varnished stuff (124) one snap pouch, one double drawstring

Total as a Household = 3630 handed off

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Activities through 12-24-17

House Capuchin Shield2This was a very busy week, getting ready for the holidays, but not so much doing on the historical end of things. Mostly it was Loren and Anja keeping some of the cookery going and Anja working out schedules and such on the feast. This week’s meetings ought to happen at the right times, despite the holiday disruptions. Also Anja and Loren are heading into Adiantum on Tuesday for lunch with Vesta, and some of us are looking at Tymberhavene’s feast on the 30th. No clue if we’ll get there or not.

Glad Yule to all! Hoping that whatever holidays you celebrate you have a great time!

Then the olive oil

If you’re reading this, you’re invited to our House Winter Feast on 2/18! You need to let us know that you want to come, to make sure that we’ve enough food and that you’re on the list. There’s no fee for the event, although we’ll have a donation can out to help with the cost of the hall.

  • Sewing Night – At Ancient Light, Thursdays, 6-8pm
  • Herb Bunch – At Ancient Light, Saturdays, 11am-1pm
  • Sewing Time – At Ancient Light, Saturdays, 3-5pm
  • Project Day – At Ancient Light, Sundays, Noon to 5pm
  • Cheese & Wine – Watch the schedule or the Facebook group! This is going to be irregularly scheduled for when tasks need to occur.
  • Next Potluck – 1/21

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 – …started with cleaning up from the potluck. Loren and Anja finally headed home around 9pm, having finished the spiced nuts, the caraway rye, the pictures and the report. The mango was sliced and in the dehydrator and leftovers in the fridge.

Burping of the brined apples had to happen several times each day. On Tuesday the box was set in an out-of-the-way spot where we could still reach it.

Anja got the green pouch from last week finished Monday evening and on Tuesday got another style of pouch and lining cut in two styles: one in a “brocade” fabric and another in blackwork on the chunk of blue evenweave that came from Three Mountains.

So, I promised on the nuts.

SLOW COOKER Nutmeg-SUGAR Pecans

Done.

Adapted from a Recipe by DrGaellon  “Adapted from a recipe by Stephanie O’Dea. http://bit.ly/bqEd0m

  • READY IN:  2hrs 5mins
  • SERVES:  12
  • YIELD:  3 cups

INGREDIENTS

  • cooking spray
  • 1 1⁄2cups granulated sugar
  • 3tablespoons ground nutmeg
  • ½ teaspoon ground mace
  • 1⁄8teaspoon  salt
  • 1egg white
  • 1 1⁄2teaspoons vanilla extract
  • 3cups pecans

DIRECTIONS

  1. Spray slow cooker liberally with cooking spray.
  2. Combine sugar, nutmeg, mace and salt; whisk well and set aside.
  3. In a large bowl, whisk egg white and vanilla until frothy.
  4. Add nuts and toss to coat thoroughly.
  5. Pour in sugar mixture and again toss thoroughly to coat.
  6. Pour coated nuts into slow cooker.
  7. Cover and cook on high 2 hours, stirring every 20 minutes to prevent burning. (I’m not going to do these on high next time. Every 15 minutes and I still had some scorch!)
  8. Lay out a piece of baking parchment.
  9. Pour nuts onto parchment, spread out and let cool to room temperature.
  10. Store in an airtight container.

Cookery – We were polishing off leftovers in the early part of the week, and a number of people tried the spiced nuts. Anja also found a recipe for pickled cheese, another weird Slavic food, so Loren picked up the ingredients to try it. Anja also set up a Christmas Sangria and then went hunting to find out whether it was period. With help from Seamus, she found this interesting article. https://vinepair.com/articles/the-history-of-sangria/

Sewing Time – Thursday – Moar pouches hap’nin’ and Anja started the embroidery on a pouch of that new fabric. Also some happened on the “secret project”. …and Amy has two more lucet cords done.

Sewing Time – Saturday – Just continuing projects.

Curd from the schiz. Pix of finished next week

Project Day was just Loren and Anja for most of the day and mostly we were cooking. We started with making candied cashews (like the pecans from the recipe above), went on to a recipe of schiz >>> , then Nakladany Hermelin, although it was really Nakladany Brie, because Hermelin cheese is hard to find in the US. As always, we had to adapt the recipe so that Anja can eat it. (below) A few other things got worked on, the Secret Project the most, or maybe Anja trying to work on the schedule for foods for the feast took more time. Stella came in late in the day for a bit and we talked history of fireplaces and firepits.

Nakladany Syr – Pickled cheese isn’t really pickled the way we think of pickles. It’s an altered cheese, soaked in herb-infused oil. This is something that Anja ate in Prague and remembered from her childhood.

Nakladany Hermelin – Pickled Cheese – Nakladany Hermelin or Pickled cheese is popular pub snack that comes with beer. It’s prepared from Hermelín cheese (literally means “ermine”) a Czech version of Camembert cheese. As always there are many different recipes and ingredients. Let’s try a basic homemade pickled cheese. Pickled cheese is served with bread and cold beer. Nakladany hermelin can stay in your fridge for several weeks. (from http://www.czechcuisine.net/nakladany-hermelin-pickled-cheese/ )

Ingredients

  • big mason jar
  • 6-8 pieces of Camembert like cheese
  • 3-4 onions
  • 8 cloves of garlic
  • peppercorns
  • allspice
  • bayleaf
  • hot peppers (goat horns peppers)
  • 1 teaspoon of paprika or chilli
  • salt
  • oil (sunflower oil)

Directions

  1. Slice each cheese in the middle. Slice onion.
  2. Cover each cheese slice with paprika (or chilli), minced garlic and salt. Put the slices back together.
  3. Put in jar some onion, bayleaf, few peppercorns and allspice, then 2-3 cheeses and hot pepper. Again onion and repeat layers until the jar is filled up.
  4. Pour oil in the jar so every ingredient is submerged.
  5. Close jar and put in fridge for 3-5 days.
  6. Pickled cheese is served with bread and cold beer. Nakladany hermelin can stay in your fridge for several weeks.

Our version, Nakledny syr

Ingredients

  • Tupperware cold cuts box
  • 2 pound round brie
  • 2 onions
  • 4 heaping soup spoons of garlic
  • 5 dollops horseradish sauce
  • 4bayleaf
  • 1 Tbsp mixed oregano and basil
  • oil (mix of olive and peanut)

Directions

  1. Slice cheese in the middle.
  2. Slice onion.
  3. Cover bottom of box with one onion, bayleaves and garlic and ½ the oregano/basil mix
  4. Put garlic in between with caraway
  5. Repeat the bottom on the top.
  6. Pour in oil so every ingredient is submerged.
  7. Put on cover and put in fridge for 3-5 days.

Miscellaneous pix

Music

Links – Agincourt Carol in the Tower of London.

Funnies 

Loren, Anja, Gudrun (V), Stella, Amy

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

    • ASXLVII = 24
    • ASXLVIII = 88
    • ASXLIX = 794
    • ASL = 2138
    • ASLI = 731
    • ASLII = 255+7=262 plus 25 pouches for block-printing, 14 (plus 26 unfinished) 2 sewing kits (except for bone needles), varnished stuff (124) one snap pouch, one double drawstring

Total as a Household = 3621 handed off

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Last updated 12/24/17

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