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Activities through 10-8-17

House Capuchin Shield2This week was minimal and the coming week is going to roll over into 10/22’s report! Your scribe is up to her eyeballs in a large event on the 13-15th and hasn’t been able to track down as much as usual. No meetings this coming week, at all. Some activities may happen, but not at scheduled times, just when they get reported.

Pincushions 10/5

The following week, from 10/16-22 is likely to be busy. Meetings will be at the normal times on Thursday and Sunday, plus we have a potluck coming up! Some of us are planning on Amergin’s which knocks out the Saturday Herbs and Sewing workshops.

  • Sewing Night – At Ancient Light, Thursdays, 6-8pm – Not happening on 10/12.
  • Herb Bunch – At Ancient Light, Saturdays, 11am-1pm – Not happening on 10/13.
  • Sewing Time – At Ancient Light, Saturdays, 3-5pm – Not happening on 10/13.
  • Project Day – At Ancient Light, Sundays, Noon to 6pm – Not happening on 10/14.
  • Sewing Night – At Ancient Light, Thursdays, 6-8pm – Next meeting on 10/19.
  • Herb Bunch – At Ancient Light, Saturdays, 11am-1pm – No meeting on 10/21.
  • Sewing Time – At Ancient Light, Saturdays, 3-5pm – No meeting on 10/21.
  • Project Day – At Ancient Light, Sundays, Noon to 6pm – Next meeting on 10/22
  • Cheese & Wine – Watch the schedule or the Facebook group! This is going to be irregularly scheduled for when tasks need to occur.
  • Next Potluck – 10/22 (Amergin’s Weekend)

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

Other than private projects and the Dembinska page that Anja put together, not much House stuff was happening. Loren and Anja are concentrating on getting their classroom ready for the big event on the 13-15 that’s going to eat the House meetings for next week. Some fabrics for totes and largesse pouches got washed, too.

Herbs Workshop – Loren prepped some black sage that we’ve been talking about, getting it off the stems and crunching it up for use. Stems are to the left and leaves to the right. This herb is often mistaken for mugwort, which is a period herb, one of the “9 Herbs” in back, but that’s artemesia vulgaris and this is different and *not* native to Europe, but to California.

Black Sage – Salvia mellifera – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvia_mellifera

Sewing Time – Thursday – Anja, Loren, Amy

Anja was working on a project that there won’t be any pictures of yet for awhile, but also filling/sewing/stitching pincushions. One set of those headed out to the door for a non-SCA purpose for an SCA friend. The kit for the kneeling cushion piece arrived, but without instructions.

Sewing Time – Saturday There wasn’t an official Sewing Workshop on Saturday, but Anja kept sewing, anyway.

…and then Project Day got eaten by prep for the event at Ancient Light, but the insurance paperwork is in…. 

Miscellaneous pix

 

Period Music – Breve regnum erigitur is a Polish (Crakow) “Student Song” written (in Latin) about the custom of “Juvenalia” or topsy-turvy days in the Renaissance. There’s a good Wiki article here, but you’ll have to hit the translate button. (It’s in Polish.)   https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breve_regnum_erigitur I wasn’t finding anything in English!

By nieznany – Pamiętnik Literacki, 1973, z. 1, Domena publiczna, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7401110

according to the medieval spelling conventions              

Breve regnum erigitur,
Sublimatum deprimitur
Et depressum elabitur
Transmutato tempore,

Puerilem militiam,
Perargutam periciam,
Regencium industriam,
Hanc eduxit in opere

Cracoviensem filium,
Fulgentem velut lilium
Ac de numero milium
Cunctis preferendum.

Octo dierum spacia
Hoc sustinet solacium,
Post hoc regis palacium
Plagis feriendum,

Namque regis eleccio
Fit study negleccio
Ac desolatur leccio
Tota septimana.

Anja’s Translation (hey, this was *fun*!)

(chorus)Breve regnum erigitur, Quickly set up a kingdom
Sublimatum deprimitur                 the high is knocked down
Et depressum elabitur                   and the low lifted up
Transmutato tempore                   In the changing time

(Iow) Quickly! In topsy-turvy time, rearrange our lives where the Nobles will serve the lowly students.

Puerilem militiam,                           The host of children
Perargutam peritiam,                     Intense experience
Regentium industriam,                  The industrious ruler
Hanc eduxit in opere.                     Has brought this work forth

(Iow) We kids hafta be the ones to make this fun happen!

Cracoviensem filium,                      Sons of Crakow
Fulgentem velut lilium                   Shine like lilies
Ac de numero milium                     And numbering in the thousands
Cunctis praeferendum.                 Are better than….

(Iow) The Sons of Crakow are dressed to the nines. Thousands of us are looked up to.

Octo dierum spatium                     For 8 days
Hoc sustinet solatium,                   This fun  is kept up
Post hoc regis palatium                 After this the King’s Palace
Plagis feriendum.                             We strike!

(Iow) We’re going to be at this for over a week and last of all we’ll hit the King’s Palace!

Namque regis election                  Now to elect a king
Fit studiam neglectio                      And make a mess of our studies
Ac desolatur lectio                           And the Readers will be neglected
Tota septimana.                               All Week!

(Iow) Now, Studies and Professors, pfui! Let’s get the party rolling!

A wonderful rendition by Kings and Beggars

Music

Links –  – The Luttrell Psalter Film – Guided by the detailed and often humorous images of everyday life from the Luttrell Psalter – https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Flist%3DFLxNPhwjpoSIOWs0B-JVG6tA%26time_continue%3D16%26v%3DO0AnUM1tt54&h=ATP131RoBxDB4etPpbFzI_bOW-m-2ZXDtP2lWZ_JnxiL5jWhiDDHMqKc-g2c9wp4dioiodpXxmxXwFSNftcPb9Jf77e7fmpn5TrLzTahkzgjJGVURQkZ3UELbOmcTHW_YMQlplTAO3_zfg257CzpKBVU5z0UIqyIOxWyM1VYEX7g1u1a44gmQEin82FPe_8_TP8Gw8jxzOQJzJbtflyTU9TXbyw4gD6cuTas7oSrxygrbW7xcvCU0XSIu8QqGVs7BLdOr-TgErPBZYpV7LRJIb85

Rocket Cats? http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/objects-of-intrigue-rocket-cats?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=atlas-page

Safety while cutting bone and/or antler – https://halldorviking.wordpress.com/2014/01/31/keeping-safe-while-bone-working-respiratory-issues/

Funnies 

New & Updated Pages

Medieval Polish Foods – http://wp.me/p8ngGY-Sm

Anja, Loren, Amy, Sasha (v)

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

  • ASXLVII = 24
  • ASXLVIII = 88
  • ASXLIX = 794
  • ASL = 2138
  • ASLI = 731
  • ASLII = 163+14 plus 4 pouch, 25 pouches for block-printing, 35 (plus 26 unfinished) pincushions, 7 emery bags, 10 lucet cord, 1 hat, 1 bone needle & case, 2 sewing boxes (finished except for bone needles), 1 sewing box (in process), varnished stuff (124)

Total as a Household = 3536 handed off

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Polish Medieval Recipes

Polish infantry 1502 – found through Google https://polishforums.com/history/poland-power-vanish-say-years-ago-51330/3/

As part of the research into Slavic Foods that we’ve been doing preparing for our Winter Feast, it was recommended that we look into Dembinska’s Food and Drink in Medieval Poland. I hunted all over for a list of the foods that she talks about and didn’t find one. Now, granted, this is a modern book, but it’s well-researched. It’s helpful to have a recipe list, so I copied it. I will go back at a later date and track down and sort the food-stuffs, the way we have them done from the Domostroi.

There almost certainly are spelling mistakes and I don’t have a good font for the special Polish characters. Please be nice, but let me know. 🙂

  • Pg. 147 – Gruel of Mixed Grains, Kasza z Roznych Ziaren
  • Pg. 149 – Courtier’s Pottage, Strawa Dworzanina
  • Pg. 150 – Compositum of Cabbage, Chard, Dill and Mushrooms, Komposjtum z Kapusty, Cwikly, Kopru i Grzybow
  • Pg. 151 – Stew of Parsnips, Leeks and Alexanders, Duszony Por z Pasternak i Gier
  • Pg. 152 – Cheese Dumpling, Kluski z Bryndza
  • Pg. 153 – Pears stewed with cucmbers and figs, Gruski Duszone z Ogorkami i Figami
  • Pg. 154 – Chicken Baked with Prunes, Kurczak Pieczony z Suszonymu Sliwkami
  • Pg. 165 – Green Mustard Sauce, Zielony Sos z Musztarda
  • Pg. 157 – Lentils and Skirret with Bacon, Soczewica i Kruczmorka z boczkiem
  • Pg. 159 – Beer soup with Cheese and Eggs,  Zupa Pivna z Bryndza lub Caseata
  • Pg. 160 – Millet flour soup, Zacierki
  • Pg. 161 -Oat flour soup, Kucza
  • Pg. 163 – Polish Hydromel, Czemiga
  • Pg. 164 – Fermented Barley Flour Soup, Kisiel
  • Pg. 166 – Fish aspic, Galareta z Ryby
  • Pg. 168 – Prepared fish stock, Rosol z ryby
  • Pg. 168 – Lavendar Vinegar, Ocet Lawendowy
  • Pg. 169 – Game stewed with sauerkraut, Miszkulancja lub Bigos
  • Pg. 171 – Hashmeat in the Cypriot Style, Zrazy po Kyprjsku
  • Pg. 173 – Saffron Wafers, Oplatki Szafranowe
  • Pg. 175 – Pike in Polish Sauce, Szcupak w polskim sosie
  • Pg. 177 – Fast Day Pancakes, Nalesniki Postne
  • Pg. 179 – Ham stewed with cucumbers, Szynka Duszona z Ogorkami
  • Pg. 180 – Wroclav Trancher Bread, Wroclawski Chleb Zytni
  • Pg. 183 – Thick Beer or Sourdough Starter, Gestwina z Drozdzy
  • Pg. 184 – Turnip Kugel, Kugiel z Rzepki
  • Pg. 187 – Tripe in Sauerkrauet, Flaczki w Kiszonej Kapuscie
  • Pg. 190 – Polish Sauce for Fast Days and Tripe, Polski Sos na Kni Postne i Do Flakow
  • Pg. 191 – Court Dish of Baked Fruit, Pieczone Owoce po Krolewsku
  • Pg. 192 – Skirrets Stewed with Fish, Kruczmorka Duszona a Ryby
  • Pg. 194 – Stewed Pig Tails and Buckwheat Gruel, Wieprzowe Ogony Duszone z Kasza Gryczana
  • Pg. 196 – Pomeranian Trojniak, Trojniak Pomorski
  • Pg. 197 – Hungarian Style Spit-Roasted Shoulder of Venison, Mostek Jeleni z Rozna po Wegiersku
  • Pg. 199 – Cubeb Vinegar, Ocet Kbebowy
  • Pg. 200 – Turnip Gruel, Kleik z Rzepy

This information swiped from https://www.amazon.com/Food-Drink-Medieval-Poland-Rediscovering/dp/0812232240/ref=sr_1_1?s=home-garden&ie=UTF8&qid=1506986852&sr=8-1&keywords=Food+and+drink+in+medieval+poland+dembinska

Food and Drink in Medieval Poland: Rediscovering a Cuisine of the Past by Maria Dembinska (Author), William Woys Weaver (Editor), Magdalena Thomas (Translator) Hardcover: 256 pages, Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press (July 23, 1999), ISBN-10: 0812232240, ISBN-13: 978-0812232240

Lavender vinegar, saffron wafers, chicken baked with prunes, pears stewed with cucumbers and figs . . . there is something wonderfully inviting about the unusual and exotic flavors that came to the medieval Polish table. By turns robust and refined, and capturing all the richness and complexity of Poland in the Middle Ages, this is cookery that flourished at the crossroads of Western and Oriental foodways.

This is the first book of its kind in English to explore the fascinating culinary history of medieval Poland. It represents the fruits of a twenty-year collaboration between two distinguished food historians, William Woys Weaver and the late Maria Dembinska. Freely adapted from a pioneering work first published by Dembinska in 1963, this new edition explores the subject of Polish medieval cuisine through archaeology, material culture, and ethnography, along with other perspectives and techniques. Topics examined include not just the personal eating habits of kings, queens, and nobles but also those of the peasants, monks, and other social groups not generally considered in medieval food studies.

To appreciate the tastes and textures of medieval Polish cookery, there is simply no better way than to experience the food firsthand. Weaver has included thirty-five carefully reconstructed recipes, from courtier’s pottage, a one-pot dinner popular with rich peasants and petty nobles, to game stewed with sauerkraut, to a court dish of baked fruit, to Polish hydromel, an easily made drink flavored with honey and fennel. With ingredients such as rosewater, cucumbers, saffron, and honey, these recipes will intrigue anyone who loves the art of cooking.

About the Author

Maria Dembinska conducted her research on food consumption in medieval Poland at Warsaw University and at the Institute of Material Culture of the Polish Academy of Sciences. A noted food historian, she authored nearly two hundred articles and papers on medieval foods and foodways. William Woys Weaver is an internationally known food historian and author of numerous books, including America Eats, The Christmas Cook, Pennsylvania Dutch Country Cooking, and Heirloom Vegetable Gardening. He began his collaboration with Maria Dembinska on the publication of Food and Drink in Medieval Poland in 1977.

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Activities through 10-1-17

We got some projects farther along this week. The cookery is coming along with both semolina dumplings and pickled onions. Anja and Loren finally managed to get to a Tymberhavene A&S night and Loryea is here for the month.

All meetings are at normal times this week, but not next! Also, report for 10/15 & 10/22 will be combined.

  • No meetings 10/12-15 (which includes Project Day!)
  • 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 – 10/22 (Amergin’s Weekend)

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

We’re still trying to sort out the necessary insurance to rent the hall for our Winter Feast and Amy was working on that on Monday. Loren started another needle and Anja finished some emery strawberries and put them with the tiny emery cushion. Loren also picked up the cutting board that Anja and Kaleb had worked on and got that farther along, still.

Cookery – Tuesday tends to be cooking day for Loren and Anja, since it’s the first day of their weekend. Other than picking and freezing berries for later in the season, they decided to make some more broth, chicken this time, since there are more dumpling recipes to try. After the chicken carcasses were in the crockpot and the berries were put by, Anja started on pickling some onions. She used her own pickle broth, but started the onions by the method he recommends that begins at 1:30 on the video.

Pickling onions – Townsend’s –

Tymberhavene A&S night – (Wednesday 6:30pm) – Anja’s take – Well, this is a road trip. According to Google Maps it only takes 1 1/2 hours to drive it, but so far, every time it’s been closer to 2 1/2. We didn’t get out until past 5, because the broth still needed straining and Loren had some errands he hadn’t said anything about….like brake fluid….Kinda essential on a road trip!

The day was startlingly hot. I suppose mid-80 temps are the norm for summer in most places, but not here! We didn’t leave the apartment until past 2 and headed for the shop to scrabble things together for our trek down to Coos Bay. I was dropping off a Mab’s Creations order, picking up some stuff of ours that had gotten parked with Seamus’ family (who were awfully nice about hanging on to it that long and getting the pieces of a project that I’m going to be working on over the next several months.

The sun was bright and in our faces most of the way there, although directly only when  the road was very winding and turned us that way. There was a pod of whales blowing offshore that I saw at one point. Everywhere there were signs of the changing season, with leaves blowing across the road, plants having gone to seed and no longer flowering, grasses browning and bending down. The flowering baskets that North Bend has on the main roads are gorgeous, though.

The meeting was at Mossy Rose in North Bend. They have a fascinating shop with all kinds of fancy clothing, scarves, shawls, shells, and all kinds of decor. Onora was making a costume for a teddy bear, Camin was crocheting small bags of coarse wool. A set of people (and Seamus) were having a retinue planning session. I was sewing. There was a spinning wheel going behind me and a fellow doing the stitching on a pair of roman-style hobnail sandals. We got the Mab’s Creations order taken care of just about first, and then Loren pulled out some of the pickled cabbage to hand around to folks. Some of them loved it and some of them turned up their noses at cabbage of any type. 🙂

When the folks with kids started heading home, we did too, since we had a long drive and I was worn out from being so hot and sticky. I snoozed off and on for the first part of the trip, but after we stopped for gas in Florence I was awake the rest of the way, although tired. The sky was bright from the 1/2 Moon, making the tree silhouettes plain on the inland hills. There was a lovely moon track on the water. The Big Dipper was level, unlike the way I had seen it in the morning, standing on its tail. We got to see the light from Heceta Head sweeping across the trees.

When we got home we stood outside for a bit, admiring the sky. The Moon was nearly set and Cygnus high overhead flying along the river of the Milky Way. Our anniversary stars, the Pleiades, that are first plain in the evening in late September, were what we were looking at most, though. We smiled at each other, smooched and went in to rest, since it was already pretty late.

Sewing Time – Thursday – Anja spent the previous evening at the A&S in Tymberhavene stitching, but then Thursday, filled and dimpled some cushions, finished a couple of emery bags and stitched a couple more!

Sewing Time – Saturday – Anja was putting dimples into otherwise finished pincushions, mostly.

Later she was going through the pincushions, getting pictures of the ones that are going out for orders, the ones that are probably going into her mundane business and the ones set aside for largesse.

…and then she did a couple more at home, just the stitching.

Herb Bunch – Worked on what’s going on in the gardens, fields and woods at this time of year, which is mostly seeds and fruits getting ripe. We also worked on how to make a spore print, how to ID mushrooms and that boletes can be used to make wicks for oil lamps.

Project Day – We started with catching up on photos and then Anja sorted pincushions, got those photos and sent ’em out. Anja cut the bolete into wick pieces and set up a display box and put ’em away. Tempus headed into the back to set up so that she could make the semolina dumplings. Anja started in on a list of Polish medieval recipes, so’s to have them. She and Gogor talked about some of the recipes online, like Chicken baked with Prunes, (….which sounds odd, but Anja’s had it before, and it’s delicious), or the Polish Hydromel, or Saffron Wafers.

Eventually we started the broth boiling and Loryea and Amy both came in not long after. Amy stayed for some dumplings. They worked, but dumplings are a very plebeian dish and bland, in any case. Anja worked on pincushions. …and later we tried some of the pickled onions. They’re really tasty!

The recipe for two servings of the dumplings is:

  • 1 egg
  • 1/2-1 cup of semolina flour
  • shake salt
  • broth
  1. Bring the broth to a fast boil.
  2. While it’s heating, mix the egg up with the salt, then add the flour by the 1/4 cup until you have a stiff paste. When it sits it will look damp on the surface, but be “grainy” when you pull some out.
  3. Using two teaspoons, one to scoop up a measured amount and one to push it off the spoon, drop the dumplings into the boiling broth. After every 4 dumplings, take a long-handled spoon and unstick any that haven’t already floated.
  4. When all the dumplings are in, put the lid back on and bright back to a boil, then let sit for a minute or two.
  5. Pull one dumpling out and cut in 1/2.
  6. If it’s done all the way to the center, use a slotted spoon to lift the rest out of the broth and serve.

Music

Music of the Crusades, David Munrow and the Early Music Consort of London, Composer: Various Artists, Audio CD (April 9, 1991), Decca, ASIN: B0000041XJ

https://www.amazon.com/Music-Crusades-Various-Artists/dp/B0000041XJ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1506500279&sr=8-1&keywords=music+of+the+crusades

Miscellaneous Pix – Mistress Yseult is in France and sending back marvelous pix! Only dropped a couple in here. (Find her on Facebook as Pam Perryman)

Funnies 

Anja, Loren, Amy, (Tymberhavene A&S folks), Gogor (V), Loryea

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

  • ASXLVII = 24
  • ASXLVIII = 88
  • ASXLIX = 794
  • ASL = 2138
  • ASLI = 731
  • ASLII = 163 plus 4 pouch, 25 pouches for block-printing, 54 (plus 28 unfinished) pincushions, 10 emery bags, 10 lucet cord, 1 hat, 1 bone needle & case, 2 sewing boxes (finished except for bone needles), 1 sewing box (in process), varnished stuff (124)

Total as a Household = 3522 handed off

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Activities through 9-24-17

House Capuchin Shield2Our group had another quiet week. Sadb is still recovering with her ankle from the car accident, and Anja’s still recovering from her tumble at Shrewsbury. Everyone on the coast is still on summer schedules so there haven’t been very many folks at the meetings, still, but summer is passing quickly.

“Honey? I finally found something period to keep the sun off my head!”

All meetings this week at the usual times, but from October 12-15 there will be no meetings held at Ancient Light, so the report for 10/15 will be put off until 10/22.

  • 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
  • 2nd batch

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

  • Next Potluck – 10/22 (Amergin’s Weekend)

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

Early Week

Of course, this started with cleaning up and putting away the feast dishes. Anja finally has pincushion filling, so that was one of the next things after last weeks report was up. The place smells lovely after we grind cedar. …well, it’s not real cedar, like “cedar of lebanon”. See below the music links.

Sewing Time – Thursday – Anja and Loren started earlier in the day than usual. He had another piece of bone, she was filling pincushions. Of course, he got silly…. 🙂 Amy showed up right at the last minute as Loren and Anja were packing up to head home. School has heated up again.

 

Sewing Time – Saturday

We found a link of embroidery stitches,. some of which are period, some not, but lots of fun! https://www.needlenthread.com/2012/05/stitch-play-index.html

…and pretty much everything else was sorting project things. It’s gotten to be a mess over the summer. …oh, and more sanding on the cutting board. …and eventually a little sewing when Amy showed up around 5:30pm.

Herb Bunch – We spent the time bagging up the summer’s herb harvest, now that most of it is dried, and talking over bringing plants indoors. This links to an article on that topic.

https://www.almanac.com/blog/gardening-blog/windowsill-herb-garden

Project Day – We were still sorting out some projects during the early part of the day and tried some more of the pickled cabbage, which still isn’t too strong, and is nice and crunchy.

We had a mother and son come in and stayed for awhile, talking. They’ve done Civil and Revolutionary War re-enactment and might come join us when their circumstances improve.

Anja had been sewing on more pincushions and Loren working on a needle. Amy showed up for awhile, then left before Anja woke up and the needle Loren was working on snapped, which means we really didn’t get anything accomplished, until right at the end of the day Loren started cutting down some of the pieces of rosemary wood for Anja, since she wants some of that for spoons.

Miscellaneous pix

Music

(CB 22) Tempus Est Iocundum

Tempus est iocundum,
o virgines,
modo congaudete
vos iuvenes.

Oh – oh, totus floreo,
iam amore virginali
totus ardeo,
novus, novus amor est,
quo pereo.

Mea me comfortat
promissio,
mea me deportat
negatio.

Oh – oh, totus floreo,
iam amore virginali
totus ardeo,
novus, novus amor est,
quo pereo.

Tempore brumali
vir patiens,
animo vernali
lasciviens.

Oh – oh, totus floreo,
iam amore virginali
totus ardeo,
novus, novus amor est,
quo pereo.

Mea mecum ludit
virginitas,
mea me detrudit
simplicitas.

Oh – oh, totus floreo,
iam amore virginali
totus ardeo,
novus, novus amor est,
quo pereo.

Veni, domicella,
cum gaudio;
veni, veni, pulchra,
iam pereo.

Oh – oh, totus floreo,
iam amore virginali
totus ardeo,
novus, novus amor est,
quo pereo.

Submitted by  Bobfari on Sat, 29/03/2014 – 19:17
Last edited by  SaintMark on Sat, 15/10/2016 – 19:50

Submitter’s comments: from the “carmina burana” a collection of medieval bavarian drinking songs. Written in the monastery of Benediktbeuren, thus the name “Carmina Burana”.
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http://www.tylatin.org/extras/cb22.html

The Time Is Pleasing

The Time Is Pleasing
O Virgins
You Youths Rejoice In This Manner

Oh, Oh I Bloom Completely
Now I Burn Completely
On Account Of The Virgin Love
It Is The New New Love
For Which I Perish

Philomena Sings Thus More Sweetly
And She Is Heard Playing
I Burn Within

Oh Oh I Bloom Completely
Now I Burn Completely
On Account Of The Virgin Love
It Is The New New Love
For Which I Perish

It Is The Flower Of Girls
Which I Love
And The Rose Of Roses
Which I See Often
I Burn Within

Oh Oh I Bloom Completely
Now I Burn Completely
On Account Of The Virgin Love
It Is The New New Love
For Which I Perish

My Promise Delights With Me
my Denial Carries Me Away
My Virginity Plays With Me
My Stupidity Thrusts Me Down

Oh Oh I Bloom Completely
Now I Burn Completely
On Account Of The Virgin Love
It Is The New New Love
For Which I Perish

Be Silent Philomena
As The Time Demands
Rise Old Song From The Breast
The Man Suffering In The Winter Time
Being Wanton With A Spring Soul
Come Little Mistress With Joy
Come Come Beautiful One
Now I Perish

Oh Oh I Bloom Completely
Now I Burn Completely
On Account Of The Virgin Love
It Is The New New Love
For Which I Perish

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Western Red-Cedar, thuja plicata – This is a timber tree of the Pacific Northwest, with fronds that “volunteer” in our windstorms. The fronds can be dried and ground and make a wonderful scent in pincushions and various sachets. The locals called themselves “People of the Red-Cedar” because they depended on it, so, not just for wood, but also for the bark that can be made into rope and cord. There’s a wonderful article in Wikipedia about it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thuja_plicata

…and best guess as to what would have been used in period was one of the strewing herbs….maybe.

Links

Bread – http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/reconstructing-medieval-bread/

New and Updated Pages

A new page of links to other blogs. http://wp.me/P8ngGY-QB

Funnies 

Anja, Loren, 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 = 163 plus 4 pouch, 25 pouches for block-printing, 48 (plus 35 unfinished) pincushions, emery bags, 10 lucet cord, 1 hat, 1 bone needle & case, 2 sewing boxes (finished except for bone needles), 1 sewing box (in process), varnished stuff (124)
  • Total as a Household = 3522 handed off

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Activities through 9-17-17 Potluck Coronet

All Hail the Heirs to the Alpine Throne, Turk and Seamus!

We had a not-too-productive week with a bunch of mundane obligations getting in the way, but wound up with a marvelous Coronet tourney day and then a really good potluck. Some of our food experiments are turning out really well and one really didn’t. 🙂

Lookin’ good, guys!

All 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 – Watch the schedule or the Facebook group! This is going to be irregularly scheduled for when tasks need to occur.
  • Next Potluck – 10/22

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/

New Heirs to the Alpine Throne! All Hail, Turk and Seamus! ...and other stuff from Coronet.

Early Week

Omgs! Toy swords dug up at Vindolanda!!!!! http://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/two-roman-cavalry-swords-and-two-toy-swords-amongst-treasures-found-021617?nopaging=1

Mostly the early week this time was putting things away and making lists. Anja was also doing some food research, as usual. We did get pix of the forehead cloth, though.

Stella stopped by to check in and tell us she was planning to make it to the potluck. So did Nick.

Sewing Time – Thursday – Started early in the day, since Anja wanted pincushion filling.

Gudrun said, ” one of the Girls at work can’t sew at all. I’m going to teach her how to make an apron dress as an easy beginner pattern. 😡 she doesn’t even know how to hem. I figure an apron dress is perfect to teach all those skills.”

Sewing Time – Saturday – Got “et” by the Coronet Tourney. All Hail the new Heirs, Turk and Seamus! …and Loren finished a bone needle and Anja cut and stitched some emery bags.

Project Day

….started with Anja and Loren sorting feast gear. Wow, does it get confused! Loren had to go back home after the camera and then they got the broth divided out from the beef and vegetables. (Pix below)

…and the cheese was intact and still good and the pickled cabbage elicited, “Oh, gods…. that’s *good*!” It was nice and crunchy, sour and salty, and spicy too, without being overwhelming! Yummy!

So we ate until stuffed and then divided things up to take home and sat and talked music and history and Coronet and a lot of other things.

Potluck Menu

  • Beef soup stew with 2 kinds of dumplings – Loren and Anja
  • Chia seed, peanut butter cookies – Stella
  • Pickled cabbage – Anja and Loren
  • Butter – Loren
  • Olives (black and green) – purchased
  • Pickled ginger – purchased

Music

 

Pickled Cabbage – Jar or canned sauerkraut is too “loud” for a lot of people. Anja decided to try pickling some cabbage instead, hoping to get a product that’s more palatable when fried with the cheese. So far, the recipes that we found were all OoP, like this Townsend and Sons one.

So for a recipe that works out to…..

  1. Shred your cabbage and tamp it down in layers into a crock, maybe with an onion (apple?) between the layers.
  2. Take cider or malt vinegar, a couple of cups, and boil it with ginger, pepper and allspice, then pour it over the cabbage and let sit.

So, no salt? …and I can’t have pepper, and it’s not Czech enough without caraway, so what we did was….

  • medium head of cabbage
  • 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)

The process for filling the jars with cabbage and onion is in the process pix. The vinegar and the rest got brought to a boil and poured over the cabbage, which was left to sit for half an hour. The jars were banged against the table to get the bubbles out and then filled right to the brim with the broth, so that when the lids were screwed down they ran over a touch.

Dumplings – Nothing is more typically Slavic than dumplings. Everything from pirozki to vareniki to raw potato dumplings are all over the “traditional” food pages. Obviously the potatoes are right out for period foods, but lots of other possibilities are out there. We’re going to try doing some with parsnips at some point, because those are suggested as a possibility for “what did they use before potatoes, ‘coz there had to be something!”

…but we had to start with broth because all the commercial beef broths that we were finding had pepper, so Anja decided to do a potroast/soup. After all the hacky-choppy was done it was left to cook overnight.

Divided and cooled and the broth got separated out Sunday morning, so that the dumplings could be done in the broth. Anja then mixed two doughs, one a standard cheese biscuit dough (from a mix) and the other a plain flour/egg/salt dumpling dough. The egg one worked beautifully. The cheese one…. didn’t …. kinda turned to slime…. maybe gravy or something, but not dumplings…. so the rest of that dough became biscuits.

Egg Dumpling

Take 2 eggs, 1 cup of flour and a little salt. Mix to a stiff dough. Some flour might stay in the bowl, this is ok. Drop by teaspoonfuls into boiling broth (at least 4 inches of broth in the pot) or roll teaspoonfuls into balls between floured hands and then toss them in. Boil 3-5 minutes until done. If any don’t “rise” within a few minutes, use a spoon to get them unstuck from the bottom of the pot. Serve warm, maybe with a little broth in the bottom of the bowl. These were yum…and gnocchi-ish texture.

Cheese Dumpling

The cheese dumplings that didn’t work were made from a biscuit dough mix that called for adding 1/2 cup cheese and 3/4 cup of cold water to a packet that was supposed to make 8 biscuits. Now I’ve made dumplings of biscuit dough before and the dough looked right, but it didn’t work this time for dough, just sortof went to slime, or porridge or….gravy (?) in the pots and it took the broth with it. It had a good flavor, but not what we were trying for.

Funnies 

Moar An Tir Magic cards!

Anja, Gudrun (v), Stella, Loren, Nick, Jay(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 = 163 plus 4 pouch, 25 pouches for block-printing, 48 (plus 32 unfinished) pincushions, 5emery bags, 5 lucet cord, 1 hat, 1 bone needle & case, 2 sewing boxes (finished except for bone needles), 1 sewing box (in process), varnished stuff (124)
  • Total as a Household = 3522 handed off

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Activities through 9-10-17

House Capuchin Shield2Other than the Faire, it’s been a quiet week of just getting projects farther along. Next Sunday is our monthly potluck again. Anja’s going to try making some of the dumpling recipes. Everyone’s invited to the potlucks. The rest of the meetings are at the regular times this week.

We’re short on pictures this time, since most of our Faire ones didn’t turn out, so pix may get added later in the 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 – Watch the schedule or the Facebook group! This is going to be irregularly scheduled for when tasks need to occur.
  • Next Potluck – 9/17

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 the newest (2/6/17 and newer) https://housecapuchin3.wordpress.com/

Early Week – Some research was happening on dice and dumplings, but for a lot of it we were worrying about various friends in the vicinity of the fires. Anja was sewing and Sasha was sanding, other than that…. well, there are some research results below.

Sewing Time – Thursday – …was just Anja, cutting out pincushions and pouches.

Sewing Time – Saturday – Anja and Loren sat and talked and worked on sewing, then on pincushion filling, then she made a forehead cloth and a quick skirt so she could do Shrewsbury. …waiting for pix to be posted for the ones from Sunday.

Herb Bunch – Still doing mint.

Shrewsbury Renn Faire – Waiting for promised pictures from others, since Anja only got the ones below in the gallery.

Anja and Loren drove over there on Friday with the blackwork and toys displays. There was a little kerfluffle over the difference between Google maps and the map that was on the original website, but we found it, alright. Anja was dumb enough not to take her walker though, and took a tumble on the rough ground. She was ok, although wincing a lot on Saturday. We got the displays set up, talked with various friends and then headed home.

Late Saturday Amy told us that she wasn’t going so we had to do some working out of plans. What we did was that Loren did the drive twice on Sunday, driving out in the morning, driving back to open the shop (roadwork made him a bit late), spending the day there, then closing early and driving back to the site, getting there at 7:30, instead of 6:15, when we had planned, again because of roadwork.

Shrewsbury Renn Faire – Anja’s take

Yesterday was fun! I had a blast. I love telling people about what I do, my research and the projects that come out of it and I had plenty of opportunity to do just that all day long. I was tired and sore, so I sat very still, only getting up a few times to point out something.

It was far too warm for me for a part of the afternoon. Only the breeze made it bearable. I’m so spoilt by living on the coast!

It was fun seeing bits of the jousting. They actually tilt at rings and such!

I got to see a bunch of people that I haven’t in awhile and talk with Isabeau, one of my students, at length. I also got to interact with a lady that I had seen before, but we’ve never been in the same spot for very long. Yesterday we got the whole day to chat!

Isabeau’s tunic – This has been a long-term project. It’s stitched almost completely by hand and then embroidered over. Anja finally got to see it up close and examine the stitching at the Faire.

Project Day – …wasn’t much. Loren worked on starting a bone needle and Stella showed up for a bit. Stella showed up for a bit before the Blues Jam gig, so she and Loren got a visit for a few. No pix, ‘coz Anja had the camera….

Miscellaneous pix

I have no clue what the story is on this one, but what a great shot! by Cornelius Vom Hofe Hofe

Dice – Anja’s project

I went hunting for long dice this week, trying to find some historical examples… there’s only one, so far, the pic on the right from Kornbluth photography of a roman one. Just two links here…

Funnies – …and the Magic cards! 

Anja, Loren, Sasha (v), Isabeau

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

  • ASXLVII = 24
  • ASXLVIII = 88
  • ASXLIX = 794
  • ASL = 2138
  • ASLI = 731
  • ASLII = 163 plus 4 pouch, 25 pouches for block-printing, 48 (plus 32 unfinished) pincushions, emery bags, 5 lucet cord, 1 hat, 1 bone needle & case, 2 sewing boxes (finished except for bone needles), 1 sewing box (in process), varnished stuff (124)
  • Total as a Household = 3522 handed off

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Activities through 9-3-17

…and guess who was dork enough not to realize that I hadn’t hit, “publish”, yet…. until late Monday evening! Oops…..

House Capuchin Shield2Another quiet week for most of us, although we have friends at various events and even out on the firelines! We mostly continued with various projects this week, and are making some progress both on setting up the feast venue and the cookbook. Yes, Sadb got hurt (see below). We’re hoping that she will heal well.

This week regular meetings will happen, all but Cheese and Wine, because of the extra with Labor Day.

  • 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 – 9/17 (Coronet weekend)

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 – Last week’s newsletter didn’t go out until Monday afternoon because of the number of pictures that Anja was dealing with (not all in our newsletter). During the early week we were worrying about our brothers and sisters in Brookings and down in Texas….fire and water… wow….and by the end of the week the air quality, even out here, was deteriorating again.

There’s a new person in Lincoln City who may come play with us, Tatiana the midwife. Several of us got to chat back and forth with her on Facebook.

Sadb – Some of you know that Sadb, Anja’s student from Glyn Dywn, was in an accident where someone ran a red light. She was home mid-week after surgery on her ankle.

Sewing Time – Thursday – Amy and Anja worked on projects… a sideless surcoat and pincushions. Anja managed another emery and got some dimples into otherwise finished pincushions, plus got some sewn and turned and ready for filling. Loren puttered around finding and putting together some animals for Sasha to sand, since he was going to drop them off in the early evening. …and Sash got back to us right away that he had them and was getting to work.

Sewing Time – Saturday – Didn’t happen…

Herb Bunch – …was all on processing mint, although several bits and pieces went into the drying baskets. We have that huge bundle from Rafaella’s that we’re still working through. During the week we finally got pix of the tomatillo plants. These probably didn’t make it to Europe in period, although it’s possible that one of the descriptions of a tomato could be a tomatillo instead. They’re yummy, though, and we worked on transplanting during an herbs workshop a few weeks ago, which is a technique that’s used for a lot of things!

Project Day

We started with finding bits and pieces of things for the various projects. While a couple of Anja’s friends showed up she did some sewing, working on emery bags. Loren ended up working on the Tinkle loom and Anja kept going on her pincushions, but she’s out of pincushion filling, so the ones getting done were tiny emery bags.

Anja had been grabbing pix from the An Tir Virtual Feed and we watched the finals, live, after Amy got there! …and then more sewing and sanding happened.

September Crown Pix – The finals ran at 4:10pm, Duke Ulfr vs Count Savaric – All Hail the Heirs, Savaric and Dalla! The An Tir Events – Virtual Feed ran the finals live. You may be able to follow the link here: https://www.facebook.com/AnTirEventsVirtualFeed/?hc_ref=ARSU__KeYr-UulreX2FLXUEiV-KNyparCCsqy3rCiis3a56q_1r8DvpNVgPg-BftlDk&fref=gs&hc_location=group

A few Pix from Pennsic – ...I caught some of these on a friend’s timeline, but have no idea how to get permission for use….

Music

Links

The identity of the Stirling Knight – http://www.ancient-origins.net/history/unlocking-identity-stirling-knight-006851?nopaging=1

Funnies contributed by Sasha

Loren, Anja, Amy, Sasha

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

  • ASXLVII = 24
  • ASXLVIII = 88
  • ASXLIX = 794
  • ASL = 2138
  • ASLI = 731
  • ASLII = 163 plus 4 pouch, 25 pouches for block-printing, 46 (plus 14 unfinished) pincushions, emery bags, 5 lucet cord, 1 hat, 1 bone needle & case, 2 sewing boxes (finished except for bone needles), 1 sewing box (in process), varnished stuff (124)
  • Total as a Household = 3522 handed off

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Activities through 8-27-17 Potluck

House Capuchin Shield2Between the Eclipse and one of Loren and Anja’s kids getting married, things got disrupted this week. This coming week is going to be much more normal and we’ll probably be making cheese at least once this week…. or maybe just eating some and talking about it.

The Chetco Bar fire is continuing to be awful along with the others burning in the Coast Range and the Cascades. A set of Tymberhavene folks were evacuated during the week and Brookings is a mess. Please keep these folks in your thoughts and prayers. Photo montage on the left by Vesta.

  • Our meetings 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 – Watch the schedule or the Facebook group! This is going to be irregularly scheduled for when tasks need to occur.
  • Next Potluck – 9/24 (9/17 is Coronet…)
Leftovers for breakfast!

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

Eclipse!

Wedding pix – We just grabbed a couple of Loren and Anja for here. Dress for the wedding specified “wacky”. We figured garb applied…. and Anja finally got her headdress actually constructed instead of pinned to a Styrofoam head.

Pickups

Anja and Loren collected some things on the way home from the wedding that had been promised earlier. SCA courier doesn’t work all that well to the coast.

Herb Bunch – We got our tomatillos planted (No pix, yet….) and harvested more herbs and greens. The harvested stuff all got used on Sunday for the fritters, if we hadn’t set them aside for drying. I’ve put the pix from those here.

Sewing Time – Saturday – Amy and Anja sat and chatted and worked just getting farther on projects. We need more pincushion filling, so Anja is just making tops and working on a long-term embroidery project.

Project Day – Of course, it being a potluck day, most of this is cooking!

We started the day with draining the chicken that had been cooking all night. We saved some of the broth aside for papyns and added vegetables to the rest. We cooked parsnip, turnip, cabbage, beans and the radish greens in this for a vegetable pottage.

…and talk about a blast from the past! Kendrew MacFlandry of Dundee happened to show up at the shop with his lady and some friends! We haven’t seen him for more than a 1/4 century. We got to talk for a bit.

Loren got a bread going after they left and then we started making the “cake” batters. Now, these aren’t sweet, they’re more like fritters than than what we would think of as a cake. The pix of them getting the bisquik added and getting stirred didn’t turn out. We used bisquik because we had it and it needed to get used up. Normally it would have been just flour. The saffron was put into an 1/2 cup of warm broth while this was going on, to get the color to release, then set aside.

Giovanni Boccaccio De Claris mulieribus – Source: gallica.bnf.fr
Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Manuscrits, Français 598, fol. 13r.

Amee called at that point. She and Nick were out and about on a job and ran across a complete folding loom at a yard sale. Unfortunately none of us had the $150 that it would take to buy.

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The next cake batter was for the cheese cakes.

The Papyn gravy was next on the list, so butter was melted, flour and salt were added (and Anja bemoaned the fact later that she used regular and not rice flour) and the flour cooked, then 1/4 cup of cream shaken with 1/4 cup of water to thin it, and then as it cooked the colored broth went back in and it was whisked until it got to a good consistency, then poured into the gravy warmer.

The eggs were cooked next, poached in the rest of the reserved broth with about 1/4 cup of sour cream added and a little salt and then that went into a crockpot to stay warm.

Loren had to take off on an errand at that point, but Amy showed up, so she and Anja sat and talked in between Anja running into the back for the next step of cookery. Amy worked on her njalbinden. The fritters were next and we had a dozen green herb and about 20 of the cheese.

Loren still wasn’t back, so Amy and Anja started on the food, which didn’t include the bread until later. The herb cakes were interesting, but had a slightly bitter aftertaste that Anja didn’t really like, but the cheese ones were enjoyed by all. You can

Leftovers for breakfast!

see the papyn gravy on the papyns in the little eating bowl. The pink stuff is the pickled ginger, which was really good with the fried cakes. The cookies were Amy’s contribution and we didn’t get to the bread until way later.

Loren got back about 1/2 an hour later and everything was still warm, so he did get his share after he got the bread into the oven. We ate that warm, almost as dessert! …and leftovers the next day!

Menu for Potluck

  • Bread & Butter- Loren
  • Cooked vegetable stew – Loren and Anja
  • Fried herb cakes – Herb Bunch/Anja
  • Fried cheese “cakes” – Anja
  • Papyns – Loren and Anja
  • Pickled ginger – Purchased
  • Cookies – Amy
  • Vegetable Pottage – Anja, Loren and the Herb Bunch

Anja’s version of Papyns

  • 1/2 cup flour
  • 1/2 stick of butter
  • Several pinches of saffron
  • 6 eggs
  • Box chicken broth
  • 3 tbsp sour cream

To cook:

  1. Pour at least 2 inches of the broth (it was our whole box) to very soft boil in a saucepan with a cover.
  2. Stir in sour cream and bring up to simmer again.
  3. One at a time, break each egg carefully into the broth, being sure not to break the yolk.
  4. Allow the eggs to poach just until the yolks have cooked; remove from the water with a slotted spoon and put into a heat-proof bowl.
  5. In the saucepan, melt the butter and add the saffron.
  6. Add flour, shaking or sifting into hot butter so that it cooks & thickens, but does not brown, stirring constantly (it helps to have an extra hand, Mrs. Weasley’s wand or a prehensile tail for this step!) then begin adding the broth back until you have a smooth, gravy-like sauce.
  7. Heat slowly until the color changes as the saffron finishes cooking into the sauce. The color of the sauce needs to be a golden yellow, so adjust the saffron or food coloring as needed. Stir frequently to prevent sticking or scorching.
  8. Pour over eggs
  9. Season with salt & pepper if desired.

Anja, Loren, Amy, Amee

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

  • ASXLVII = 24
  • ASXLVIII = 88
  • ASXLIX = 794
  • ASL = 2138
  • ASLI = 731
  • ASLII = 163 plus 4 pouch, 25 pouches for block-printing, 35 (plus 22 unfinished) pincushions, 5 lucet cord, 1 hat, 1 bone needle & case, 2 sewing boxes (finished except for bone needles), 1 sewing box (in process), varnished stuff (124)
  • Total as a Household = 3522 handed off

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Last updated 8/28/17

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Activities through 8-20-17

House Capuchin Shield2Eclipsealypse-that-wasn’t cancelled a lot of our get-togethers this week, but things kept getting done, anyway. Project Day was virtual.

Meetings are at regular times this week, except for Thursday’s Sewing night, which is cancelled because Anja and Loren will be at Arthur’s (their son) , wedding that night! Wearing garb, btw….. Hopefully there will be pix.

A couple of the molded cheeses
  • Sewing Night – At Ancient Light, Thursdays, 6-8pm (not this week.
  • Herb Bunch – At Ancient Light, Saturdays, 11am-1pm
  • Sewing Time – At Ancient Light, Saturdays, 3-5pm
  • Project Day – At Ancient Light, Sundays, Noon to 6pm
  • Cheese & Wine – Watch the schedule or the Facebook group! This is going to be irregularly scheduled for when tasks need to occur and probably not this week.
  • Next Potluck – 8/27

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/

Cheese and Wine Workshop – Monday 8/14 – We made another batch of schiz, but Anja got distracted at a crucial moment and it didn’t turn out quite like the rest because it got too hot, going up to 110F before adding the rennet. The curd was very tiny, almost like ricotta, but we packed it into molds, re-cooked the whey, *got* some ricotta, and then the rest of the whey became a chowder. Few pix. We’ve taken lots before!

Early Week – Anja had a lot of pincushion cutting to do, so that happened on Monday and she started stitching some of the new shapes that night.

 

Project Day – Virtual! – Isabeau has gotten her tunic hemmed and is working on the neckline. She’s also been doing a snood and wants to try making some cute cup covers. Loren spent some time sanding the interior of a Russian cup that we got a couple of months back that has been used for something green and not re-finished. Anja’s doing pincushions. Gudrun and Casey found a mortar and pestle that they’re drooling over.

Sport of Kings pix – We got thanked for the prizes that went to Sport of Kings and for the largesse.

Music

Great Music from the Court of Elizabeth I – The Elizabethan Consort, Jane Pickering, Thomas Morley, William Byrd, John Dowland, and others  (February 7, 2003) Label: The Gift Of Music, ASIN: B000H80LFE

 

Links

Codfish in Norway – http://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/even-viking-times-norway-was-famous-its-white-gold-gold-you-can-eat-008600?nopaging=1

It’s Bugs Bunny and Shakespeare! …and what one fellow called the “Cackle-off”! A Witch’s Tangled Hare.

 

Funnies 

Anja, Loren, Amy, Isabeau (v), Gudrun (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 = 163 plus 4 pouch, 25 pouches for block-printing, 38 (plus 16 unfinished) pincushions, 5 lucet cord, 1 hat, 1 bone needle & case, 2 sewing boxes (finished except for bone needles), 1 sewing box (in process), varnished stuff (124)
  • Total as a Household = 3522 handed off

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