From Le Menagier - Based on A Meat-Day Dinner, Thirty-one dishes in Six Platters.
First Platter
Wine
Toast rounds
Fresh Cheese
Meat Pies
Fish Pies
Sausages
Second Platter
Strained peas
Salted and course meat
Smoked fish
Third Platter
Roast goose
Roast capons, etc.
A soup of chopped meats
Fourth Platter
Smothered rice
Fifth Platter
Rissoles
sugared milk
Sugared flans
Sixth Platter
Hippocras
Wafers
Pears
Sugared Almonds
Shelled Nuts
Wine, ale, mead, cider, and/or perry for drinking Bread
The feast day was a great success. Arwen and Maredudd spent the
day together on Saturday cooking and catching up. We got all the
pies done before Sunday - not just a few, since there were
pies in five of the six platters or courses. As it turned out, we
compressed the platters from six to four, as there was just too many
dishes and not enough time. I hope Le Menagier will forgive us for
tampering with his menu.
Robert spent all day Saturday transforming the large family room
into a feast hall. The effect was great, but we need to
account for ventilation next time.
In addition to "regulars" Arwen, Guillame, Frederick, Robert and
Maredudd, we had Savina and William (and children) and Gwentliana and
Johanus. We talked some about what we're about, and the expectations
of the Companie. We ate far too much in the first platter, and after
the second, adjourned to the back yard for socializing and pell
practice. After the third platter and during the fourth, we went
around the feast table and each talked about ourselves and what we
expected of this experiment, and what we wished to accomplish. As
the candles burned low and the children burned out, we adjouned and
cleaned up.
Pictures
From left: Eirene's mother Angharad, Robert of Deerbourne, Arwen Southernwood, Gwentliana, her
husband Johanus,
Frederick Thurstone, Savina la Brun and her husband William
