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3.0 Inbound!

So, what with all the SCA wonderful weirdness hitting my life this second, I felt the need to actually wrap…

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A tale of two weekends…

So. Last weekend we had a local SCA event. I was going to keep it simple. I was going to…

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The Centipede’s Dilemma

You know the story...the centipede was walking along, and someone asked it, how can you keep track of your feet?…

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March Hare, and other tasty treats

So, this weekend was March Crown, a West Kingdom (SCA) event wherein the next Queen and King are chosen via…

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Another rabbit hole

So, yeah.  Last year, I fell into a rabbit hole involving a medieval method of chemically cooking using calcium carbonate.…

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A smaller feast

Spring Coronet Feast 2015 Documentation   Oh, yeah, this feast.  A couple friends of mine, Bjorn and Hilarie, were at…

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Hungry?

Like many SCA Cooks, at some point you have to tackle a feast.  This is one I did in 2014...with…

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Cheeeeeeese!

Kitchen Chemistry Class 1   This might be the very first class handouts I wrote...a basic look at making cheese.…

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I’ll be baaack…

No, not leaving.  It’s just that, many years ago, I took a class in pewter casting at the Estrella War.…

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Another of my old class handouts—Intro to Mead

So, this is one of the oldest classes I taught where I wrote a handout.  Basic definitions on meadmaking terms,…

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A recipe for this weekend—Vetrece

So, after the boost to my cooking mojo from last week’s Culinary Symposium, I thought I needed to capitalize on…

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And to use your túró

So, supposing you have gone to the trouble of making a batch of túró (not that it’s hard or all…

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Next recipes—Fellorium From Eggs, and Túró cheese

The only cheese actually specified in The Science of Cooking is “túró”.  After hunting around for a description, I finally…

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So, the first recipe to post

So, if you know the story of how the Transylvanian Cookbook came to be in English, you’ll know the recipe…

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WCCS X

So yeah, don’t try to pronounce that.  Stands for West Coast Culinary Symposium Ten, and that’s where I was this…

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