Elizabethan Picnic Vigil

At Simple Day this year, my newly acquired laurel was put on "surprise" vigil for the Order of the Pelican. Way before she took me as an apprentice, I had been sought out to throw her an Elizabethan surprise vigil on par with a picnic. All recipes came from or were inspired by To the Queen's Taste or

Here's the menu:

Fennel Pork Sausage with Goose sauce
(Cold Sausages and Mustard Onion Sauce)
Cold Roasted Pork loin with Rosemary

Minst Pyes
Small meat and dried fruit pies

Cheeses - Apricot Stilton, Cashel Blue, Stout Cheddar
Fig Conserve
White and Brown Breads
Butter

Baked Pudding in the Italian Fashion
Bread pudding with apples and bacon
(She loves bread pudding)

Fine Cakes
(Shortbread cookies) some with Anise seed and some with rosewater and red rose petals.
Fresh Fruit
Watermelon, Pineapple, Cherries

Marchepan Pelican Plaque

Lemonade
Dried Cherry Red Wine Cordial