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Well we did it! Our medieval Feast is over. Our meal consisted of Hot Mulled Cider, Rolls and Herb Butter, Lombard Soup, Chik Farsed, Pescoddle, Currant and Date Pudding and Bruellery’s. All the recipes were from Ye Olde Cookbook . Okay, just to let you know it was very delicious the meal was basically hot cider, rolls, egg drop soup, whole chicken with an interesting egg/parsley stuffing, pea pods with bacon, yummy pudding and apple pie. As I chose I tried to pick things we would actually eat!
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Most of the kids (and some parents) participated in entertainment between the courses. We had several poem recitations, juggling (scarves and balls), games and a little “comedy”. My son Taylor our monk for the evening provided the blessing for the meal in Latin and English and since he also plays the drums did the drum roll to announce each course. In my reading it was either a drum roll or trumpet and since we had drums…
Here’s the poem my daughter Ariel did:
To A Cat
Poor puss is gone! 'Tis fate's decree---
Yet I must still her loss deplore,
For dearer than a child was she,
And ne'er shall I behold her more.
With many a sad presaging tear
This morn I saw her steal away,
While she went on without a fear
Except that she should miss her prey.
I saw her to the dove-house climb,
With cautious feet and slow she stept
Resolved to balance loss of time
By eating faster than she crept.
Her subtle foes were on the watch,
And marked her course, with fury fraught,
And while she hoped the birds to catch,
An arrow's point the huntress caught.
In fancy she had got them all,
And drunk their blood and sucked their breath;
Alas! she only got a fall,
And only drank the draught of death.
Why, why was pigeons' flesh so nice,
That thoughtless cats should love it thus?
Hadst thou but lived on rats and mice,
Thou hadst been living still, poor puss.
Curst be the taste, howe'er refined,
That prompts us for such joys to wish,
And curst the dainty where we find
Destruction lurking in the dish.
---Ibn Alalaf Alnaharwany
Oh, and as you might have noticed in the picture we did get some of the sewing done! My youngest got her beautiful blue dress she wanted. Ariel got her long skirt but we ran out of time for the cloak (it was over 70 that day anyway, she would have cooked.) My oldest got his tunic for a woodsman but we didn’t get around to the hat. Our monk was easy, it was a left over robe originally used as a Ewok from Star Wars! My husband of couse came straight from work so he was dressed "modern" and I just did the best I could from my closet!
It was fun and I’m sure most of the kids will have fond memories of the Medieval Feast! |
