A merchant tent from Pennsic http://www.pennsic.net/grifden.html I can’t imagine “building” a house at every event… but it’s impressive.
Sunshade
When SCA camping, trees are a luxury. Usually we don’t end up with any in our camping allotment. That and since we covet Eric space, trees are hard to come by. That means we either have to suffer in the sun (no fun at all) or make our own shade. Option two is the option of choice. There’s not a…
Feast Ingredients
Getting Herb in Berkeley: http://www.herb-inc.com/ Squab (young pigeon) and Poussin (young or spring chicken) http://www.squab.com
Slightly Post Period Chocolate Drink
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…