Medieval cookery emphasized artful splendor in its variety of tastes, textures and food types. All prepared meats, fish, fowl, vegetables, fruits and sweets are served for appearance as well as taste and fragrance. Beautifully feathered birds, such as peacocks, are roasted and then refeathered so that they look alike. Their claws and beaks gleam with painted gold. Illusion foods delight by surprising --- they look as though they are one thing but truly are another. For example, "golden apples" are delicately spiced meatballs wrapped in gold-tinted pastry, with marzipan green leaves. "St. John's Urcheon" looks like a hedgehog but, in fact, is a whimsical animal sculpture made of meat and wrapped in brown carob pastry with edible quills. "Four and twenty blackbirds" pie, of course is not filled with cooked birds. Perfectly safe for the tethered feathered ones within, the pie amazes quests when it is cut, liberating the birds to fly around the hall.
As you create some of the delicacies for your own medieval feast from the instructions which follow, try to delight in the re-creation of one of the most significant events of medieval times:
the Christmas Feast, its cookery and ceremony. WASSAIL!
by Mary Eccher - page 2 of 7
Photo by Mary Eccher
Photo by Mary Eccher
LET THE FEASTING
BEGIN!
In medieval times, the appearance of food at
the Christmas Feast was as important as the taste
INTRODUCTION - continued
from December 1984
CASTING RESIN
Note: (1984 ingredients) Two brands of casting resin are currently available: Castolite-AC Clear Casting Resin and Chemco Casting Resin. With both, a catalyst or "hardener" is added to the resin drop-by-drop. Another type of resin is a polymer compound such as Ultra-Glo, Enviro-tex and Decopour. These are
two-bottle kits which are used by mixing one part resin to one part catalyst. Both type are available at miniatures and craft stores.
For detailed modeling compound instructions, please read the following articles
in "Mary's Menus":
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