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

Viking Child!

Fun Pic of my daughter.

Queen's Pennsic XL Openning Ceremonies Garb

This Garb was made for HRM Runa Kirri, post baby. Based on a speculative grave find in which a trefoil brooch was found at center waist placement with seamed edge fragments still attached. Decided this was the most convenient for easy feeding of the little one. The underdress was pleated and trimmed in tablet weaving. It was all seam finished by hand using a number of decorative stitches. Her Majesty was very pleased.

Some Embroidery

A Project For His Excellency, the Baron of Ayreton

A Project For Myself

A Project for HRM EikBrandr II Coronation Robe Arm Bands

My First Scroll Assignments

After doing the blanks it was suggested I contact my regional signet and ask for upcoming assignments. Here are the results.

Illumination

At the Vanished Woods All Souls event, it was also a scribal symposium. I took a class on a whim on how to make scroll blanks for the beginner. I REALLY enjoyed it. Not sure why I hadn't tried it before. Since I can't do anything small, I decided to partner up and do half the alphabet in scroll blanks. A-M, no j. J is a new letter. Below are the ones I did. These are my first blanks. I did them between November and January, A.S. 45.  

Cooks Collegium Coffeehouse and Coffeehouse Class

Because of the Coffeehouse I planned and ran at the 40 year celebration, I was asked to plan and run a more period version for the Cooks Collegium when it took place in the Barony of Ayreton, specifically in the Canton of Vanished Woods.

The research for the coffeehouse was extensive so I actually turned it into a class handout to be available to my customers if they were interested. Anyone interested in the class notes, feel free to contact me.

Courage Tart
England – 1588 The Good Huswifes Handmaide for the kitchen, Thomas Dawson, 39


Banbury Cakes
England 1649 - The English Hous-wife, Gervase Markham, 80.


Shortbread Cookies (Fine Cakes)
England – 1588 The Good Huswifes Handmaide for the kitchen, Thomas Dawson


Lebanese Baklava
Baghdad 1226 – Kitab al-Tabikh, Muhammad bin al-Hasan b. Muhammad b. al-Karim.
Translated by Charles Perry, 99.


Helva
Persia 800-1000, Medieval Islamic Civilization:An Encyclopedia, Vol.1, Josef W. Meri, Jere L. Bacharach, 204


Simit
Istanbul 1500s -  Seyahatname, Evliya Celebi.
"By the mid 1600s there were 70 bakeries, employing 300 bakers, in Istanbul alone according to Celebi and simit making was a regulated profession with numerous rules and strictures governing the bakers."


Tutmac
Baghdad from 1069–1073 - The Divan-ı Lüğat-i Türk, Mahmud al Kashgari


Ember Day Tart
England 1300s -  Curye on Inglish, Constance B. Hieatt (ed.), Sharon Butler (ed.)

Everything was very well received. The Ember Day Tart I made deep dish so it was more substantial, like a quiche. I made the noodles for the Tutmac from scratch. The Lebanese baklava was actually redacted from a recipe in The Baghdad Cookery Book. Wasn't able to find a recipe on the web to link.

I gave out a good number of recipe redactions that day and sold out.