grab your aprons, the cooks' playdate is almost here!

[ppfuf]

A few more details on the cook's 14^th century playdate this weekend.

• John's bringing spit adapters for the BBQs at the park
• Janos is bringing his monster BBQ
• Zinaida's bringing her oven on a trailer
• Gianetta's bringing oil for frying
• Crystal's bringing a krumkaka iron for wafers.  

If you can, feel free to bring wood or hardwood charcoal. I hope to get the fire started before 10am. I expect we'll cook all afternoon until about 5pm. We'll eat as we go, and we're going to be listed in the site handout, so be nice to the folks who wander by for a snack. :)

We're also going to have some musicians, at least one group of singers for the 14^th century salon, and a discussion of the Story of Patient Griselda see link in comments for discussion questions, and go here http://www.bartleby.com/195/2.html and here http://www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~chaucer/teachslf/clkt-par.htm for the texts)

I'm hoping we'll have a dishwashing station, and a place to sit and eat out of the smoke. I'll have 5 gals of drinking water available.

If you can, please bring a clipboard and pen. Juana is bringing some extra ingredients and recipes (and I hope to have some too), so if you decide to cook one up, please write down your recipes/experiments.

At least one person as asked for oven space for bread. I'd like to bake a tart.

Details about Mists Coronet: http://mists.westkingdom.org/2009_Fall_Coronet.php

Comments

[zoccolaro.livejournal.com]

Um...hm. Can anyone quickly point me to documentation for a man's apron? I found this (http://slumberland.org/moodle/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=650) but it's a lady, and I was hoping for something that goes over the shoulders/neck (preferably finishable in one evening =)?

[ppfuf.livejournal.com]

ask and ye shall recive

http://www.larsdatter.com/aprons.htm

[ppfuf.livejournal.com]

Sorry, soemthing else was screaming for my attention. Most fot eh en's aprons appear to be big squares or rectangles tied or pinned onto the body. I think C-Virtue has some details, I'll give her a ping

[zoccolaro.livejournal.com]

Actually, what is very interesting (and I had to do the research to find this) is that the link I provided with the woman wearing the "triangular" type apron actually seems to be the apron of a blacksmith. A woman blacksmith, you say? True, but only in allegory. The line drawing comes from The Roman de la Rose, MS 1126, fol 115r, and it is actually Dame Nature at the forge, ready to forge creation (found it in "Women and the book" by By Lesley Janette Smith, Jane H. M. Taylor.

A shame too, I really wanted to have a largish apron that would cover my silk cote while I cooked. Hmm, would it look weird to have a blacksmith's apron on when...never mind, of course it would. =)

[callistotoni.livejournal.com]

Hmm, for some reason your link to my Griselda suggested talking points isn't working. Here it is again if any of your readers are interested:

http://callistotoni.livejournal.com/345480.html?#cutid1

[ppfuf.livejournal.com]

I've tried to fix it, twice! Not sure what's wrong or if it's just the week I'm having.