So, after a recent event in my life got my brain all in a whirl (I have been been made a Member of the Order of the Laurel, GAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!) I needed something to settle my brain back down. For me, one thing that centers me back down is making lists. I love lists. To me, there is just something innately satisfying about making them, organizing them, reorganizing them, and eventually marking things off them.
So this is for me, some SCA projects I need to tackle. Putting myself on the spot. Of course, the DOING of them will be fodder for this blog. In no particular order:
- I need to tackle more historical warm glass work. There aren’t TONS of extant examples, but I have enough to do more than I have. This means more torch/bead things too!
- I need to finish the outdoor medieval cooking hearth in the side yard. I mean, really, guy, it’s stacking bricks, mostly. And then I can do more Period cooking with period methods. Of course, finishing this will require me to do the next item on the list…
- I need to revisit my period chemical/fireless cooking experiments. What I did before was NOT under the sorts of conditions that a period cook would have used…and I will need slaked lime to finish the cooking hearth in any case!
- I need to really, systematically work on recipe redactions from the Transylvanian cookbook. I mean, since I went to the trouble of editing it all and printing the thing up…this also means I need to pick the brains of those folks who do Ottoman and German cooking for their influences on Transylvanian cooking.
- I need to work on writing my next cookbook. I can’t/won’t say too much about it here and now, because I think I’d like to see if it can be published, but it will be a cookbook of period recipes made accessible to a certain variety of medievalist cook.
- Time to up my medieval cookware gear. This means finding the holes in the tools and pipkins and such that I have, and finding period-appropriate stuff for those holes. I need to find myself some copper (or bronze) pots…so I can practice tinning them! I would like very much to tin my very large riveted iron cauldron as a special bonus project at the West/An Tir War.
I’m sure I’ll think of more, so I can add things…and hopefully enjoy the thrill of crossing them off!
