Pennsic Pity Party

[hudebnik]

If we had gone to Pennsic, we'd have arrived home either late Friday or mid-day Saturday. But we didn't, due to COVID, so we arranged a Pennsic Pity Party: a mostly-medieval dinner for two, in c1400 clothing, with Perugia linen tablecloth and napekins, prunted glass beakers, use-knives and latten spoons, and Majolica pottery. (Meat-fork made by our friend Macsen Felinfoel.)



The low-labor menu:

• sallat with oil and vinegar


• peascods (frozen sugar-snap peas, microwaved just a minute to thaw)


• chicken y-rostid (rotisserie chicken from the grocery store)


• meat pie (frozen steak-n-stout pie from Trader Joe's; it has potatoes, but it looks medieval from the outside


• tartlets of spinach and beet (I got some free beet greens from the farmer's market and made these a few days ago, following Cariadoc's redaction but increasing the eggs and cheese; as usual since Atkins, I made these crustless, single-serving, in muffin tins)


• strawberye (a strawberry sauce-or-pudding from a 15th-century English source; we hadn't made it in many years, but looked up a redaction off the Web. Too liquid: more of a sauce than a pudding.)


• water and non-alcoholic perry to drink

Comments

[hrj]

Ah, that's what the pictures were about! I love the example of how to put together an easy medieval feast.

[hlinspjalda]

I can't see the picture.

[matildalucet]

A thing of beauty. What is this non-alcoholic perry you write about? I like perry rather a lot.

I made a little feast for myself a few years ago when viol conclave was all virtual. We were chatting in breakout rooms, as one does, when we came to dessert and I showed the small frosted (modern) cake I had procured for the occasion. HUGE reaction, including people trying to invite themselves into my dining room.

Feast at Home can be a good thing. Especially when necessary. Oh, heck, also just for LOLs. TL;DR: You done good.

[hudebnik]

The pictures point to shalmestere's LJ; I'll try hosting a copy of them myself. Is this better now?

[hudebnik]

James White English Pear. It's 85% English pear, 15% Cox apple. A little sweet, even by my fructophile standards, but with interesting dark and floral notes too. No idea where we got it; we've had this bottle for years.

[hlinspjalda]

Oh yes, very nice!