[SCA-BMDL] Menu for Agincourt

[Jenn Strobel]

 This year’s Agincourt feast is based on the theme of “Tournament Foods".
Each course features foods that may have been available for sale around the
site of a Fourteenth Century tourney. I have elected to focus on the
cuisine of Fourteenth Century Northern France as I particularly enjoy
cooking from *Le Menagier de Paris* (Trans. Janet Hinson) and *Le Viandier
de Taillevent* (Trans: James Prescott) and the location of the BMDL and
Northern France are within six degrees of each other, which indicates
similar climates and therefore similar seasonal foods. If you have any
questions, or need additional information, please contact me at
jenn.strobel at gmail.com.
First Course Geneva Pies (Le Viandier)
A coffyn filled with pork spiced with poudre fort, topped with roasted
chicken quarters, and decorated with flags of the Kingdom and the
Barony. Rissoles
(Le Menagier)
Pork encased in a crust fried in olive oil. Thin Pancakes (Le Viandier)
Pancakes of flour and eggs in the fashion of Blaunche escrepes, a
13thcentury French recipe. Second
Course Baked Hare (Le Menagier)
Rabbit that has been parboiled, larded, and roasted. Served with a cameline
sauce.

Cameline Sauce (Le Viandier)
This is a vinegar-based sauce with ginger, cinnamon, cloves, grains of
paradise, mace, and long pepper. The original calls for breadcrumbs but
this is being left out of this interpretation in deference to the modern
palate. Seeded Soup (Le Menagier)
A chicken and onion soup spiced with ginger, cloves, long pepper, grains of
paradise, and wine. Served with bread and butter. Browned Vegetables (Le
Menagier)
Carrots, parsnips, and turnips browned in lard. Third Course Beef Kebabs
(Le Menagier)
Roasted beef served on skewers. Parti-Colored White Dish (Le Viandier)
This is a thickened and sweetened rice dish colored red and white in honor
of our Kingdom. Cabbage (Le Menagier)
This is cabbage done in the style recommended for cooking beet leaves –
cabbage cooked in salted water and then tossed in olive oil. Fourth
Course Hippocras
(Le Menagier)
This is a spiced wine. I will be using grape juice so that everyone may
partake of the drink. Wafers (Le Menagier)
Sweet wafers made of flour and eggs. --
*Aude aliquid dignum*
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