Juana Isabella posted this on West-cooks yahoogroup. ************* Slightly Post Period Chocolate Drink Sources I got the information below from page 36 and 37 of The Feudal Gourmet: A Brief Overview of Early Spanish Cuisine, edited by Eden Rain, published by the Madrone Culinary Guild. The source Eden used was from “Chocolate: or, An Indian Drinke.” London, 1652, by Capt.…
Camp Kitchen
Very cool camp kitchen setup: Found here: http://www.roguehaven.org/Events/Estrella2004/Kitchen.jpg From author (valentinepeter@hotmail.com): Also, we incorporated our need for coolers as “ice-boxes” which allow us to place blocks of ice or dry ice in the top with shelves for the food in them as the “base” of the kitchen, and then place a wood counter-top over them and top that with folding…
Post-mortem Everthing was wearable. He looked -fabulous-. Here are the pictures to prove it: Picture by Bianca
Well it happened. Purgatorio occured. I got lots of compliments. I took a camera but of course completely forgot to take any pictures. I’m hoping other people took pictures and post them in the next few days. The dress was wearable.. and even relatively comfortable. It wasn’t as hot as I feared it might be. The only thing I found…
Landsknecht Waffenrock
Diary started Jun 26, 2006Outfit Finished on August 25, 2006. Summary landsknecht n.from Landsknecht “servant or soldier of the country or land”: a European mercenary foot soldier of the 16th century, armed with a pike or halberd. Fearghus is on court for TRH Rolf and Aurora. They are stepping up in Germans (Landsknecht) and have requested that their court wear…
2 days until Purg Yesterday my company took all of us to a baseball game. I brought my caul and started sewing pearls onto it. It turns out that you can make good progress on sewing down pearls to a caul at a baseball game.. assuming you don’t actually like baseball.. and are perfectly ok with missing most of the…
3 Days until Purg I finished the guards, attached the skirt, adjusted the fit, and added a button (instead of hook/eye) to the bottom corner of the doublet. I also tweaked the pattern for the pants. Minimum left to do: Hem shirt, open sleeves of shirt a little bit, wash shirt(to get rid of the blue fabric pen marks)(grrr). Make…
3 days until Purg Here’s where I am now. Skirt is attached but not yet hemmed. I think it’s a little bit too long. Also, I do -not- like the way the pleats are sitting. After Purg I might pull the skirt off and re-do it. The minimum left to do: Make/attach sleeves, add lacing rings, hem dress. At that…
5 days until PurgTwo more button holes left (I hate button holes). Friday I made a sleeve (lined) and attached it. Then ripped it off and reattached it correctly *sigh*. Saturday I attached the other sleeve. If I’d known what I was doing when I “designed” the Waffe I think I could have eliminated at least 3 (possibly 6) of…