Fencing Practice at Chinese Church this Sunday 3/8

Due to a scheduling conflict fencing practice will not be at Broken Plow this week, so we will be at our regular location, the Chinese Church.

Practice will run from 2 – 6 as usual. Loaner gear for fencing and cut n thrust is available.

Next Sunday 3/15 Lord Alessandro will be running practice while I am away at Gulf Wars.

I do not have a marshal for the week of 3/22 yet, so if you can run practice that week please let me know.

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Sewing Thurs Mar 5th

Reminder: The next sewing circle will be Thursday, March 5th starting at 7:30. The address is 1105 Shady Avenue, 15232. The focus is planning with an emphasis on Japanese clothing. I will survey Japense men’s and women’s garments, make fabric suggestions, and go over what is practical especially at outdoor camping events. I also have collected Viking dress patterns and instructions. If you prefer to just come sew or iron you are welcome as well. There are sergers, sewing machines, ironing boards, and one embroidery machine. If you want to plan some other garment or have general questions, you can email sewing at debatablelands.org or send email to Hara Kikumatsu. My email is in the dark pages. There are two resident cats so medicate appropriately.

Cooking Grand Tournament

Last month, I cooked my first period lunch for Aethelmearc Grand Tournament. I had three goals while preparing this menu:

  1. Don’t go over budget
  2. Nobody goes home hungry and everything tastes good
  3. Stay as close to period as possible

There were many steps I took to meet my goals, but I wanted to share the research that I did for the menu, especially after having several requests for various recipes. If anyone has any questions please feel free to reach out; I will be happy to tell you more about the steps I took or what I would do differently with each recipe next time. I look forward to making lunch at the upcoming Day of Story and Song at the castle as well; if this menu sounds good, then please join us next week!

Click to access Aegrandtourney.pdf

Sewing Thursday March 5th

The next sewing circle will be Thursday, March 5th starting at 7:30. The address is 1105 Shady Avenue, 15232. The focus is planning with an emphasis on Japanese clothing. I will survey Japense men’s and women’s garments, make fabric suggestions, and go over what is practical especially at outdoor camping events. I also have collected Viking dress patterns and instructions. If you prefer to just come sew or iron you are welcome as well. There are sergers, sewing machines, ironing boards, and one embroidery machine. If you want to plan some other garment or have general questions, you can email sewing at debatablelands.org or send email to Hara Kikumatsu. My email is in the dark pages. There are two resident cats so medicate appropriately.

Food Guild News

Salve! Greetings, Food Friends!

The next meeting of the Food Guild will be on
Saturday, February 29, about 1 pm to 5 pm
at the house of the Baron and Baroness.

We will be having fun with Roman cooking! On the agenda to make will be Mulsum, Boiled Eggs with Pine Nut Sauce, Libum, and Dulcia Domestica.
There will be substitutions due to nut
allergies. Please contact me at Elss.of.Augsburg @ gmail.com 
if you have questions about ingredients.

There is limited information on roman cooking, so you will need to start researching by looking at De Re Coquinaria by
Apicius. Of course, it was written in Latin originally, but there are original text and translated text all over the place. For those who don’t have a copy, here is a translation in English : http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Apicius/home.html

There are many translations of Apicius, but not a lot of adaptions of the recipes themselves. Here’s one that has redacted a few of the recipes:
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mjw/recipes/ethnic/historical/ant-rom-coll.html?fbclid=IwAR2d019Nonfkrn67xFlCEEdu4R18hebjAiOcbqtPkES7J2zKSibakVJpUdo
Sorry about the size of this thing, but the blog doesn’t forward links to the email list, so I have to put the whole site name in.

By the way, I peruse medieval cookbooks from all over the world online from here: http://medievalcookery.com/etexts.html.

Please contact me at Elss.of.Augsburg @ gmail.com or as Elss Augsburg on Facebook if you need the Baron/ess’s address or want to bring a contribution to the day.