Cooking Playdate

[learnteach]

Talking with Xtal of the Westermark, my desire to burn meat over fire is up again. And to spit roast eggs, which I got to do at Rowany thanks to Tanw the Confused's cooking frame. So at Mist's Coronet, we're going to do these things! Xtal has posted a list of cookbooks, which I will peruse, but I'm thinking of spit roasted meat, eggs, and some sauces--nothing too complicated for my first cooking playdate. Come join the fun!

Her list of sources is at http://ppfuf.livejournal.com/26862.html

Comments

[redsquirrel.livejournal.com]

How the heck do you spit roast eggs?

Also:

I emerge from my fog
To peruse your log
And I am most sad
That your leg wound went bad.

So condolences send
And a wish that you mend
With the greatest of speed
From this ill that I read.

Though it caused a great dearth
in your coin, 'twas well worth
such a price, for no cost
is is too dear 'gainst life lost.

You have too much too give,
So well do you live.
Thus I join with the rest
to wish you the best.

*hee* I figured you'd appreciate my belated "ooh, ouch, get well soon" wishes in the form of bad poetry.

[ppfuf.livejournal.com]

The spit roasted eggs are described by Martino. I've never seen it done, but I heard the Madrone Culinary Guild experimented wih it a few years back. I think you would need to have a fairly narrow spit, heat it first and puncture the egg carefully, as carefully as if you were going to blow it.

[ppfuf.livejournal.com]

Do you have a vision on what format of cooking workshop to try? I'm defaulting to a pick recipes and buy ingredients in advance, but actually work out the medieval recipes onsite. You let people pick a recipe from the pile and make it how it seems best to them.
Or we could pick out pre-worked-out recipies to make a specific dinner.
Thoughts?

I like the default.

[learnteach.livejournal.com]

Pick recipies; have a few things for interested bystanders to play with, as well, simple things. But I don't know what's simple! What is simple?

Re: I like the default.

[ppfuf.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, simple (imsvho) is sauces. You can make some great medival sauces by just mixing things together. Some of them don't even need to be cooked!
Soups/pottages are also fairly simple with the technolgy we'll be using.
Fleshing out these ideas may require it's own thread.