On Beards and Table Manners

Culina vetus on 2024-5-5
This poem by the König vom Odenwald has got to be the longest-winded lesson in table manners I have ever seen. VII Of the long beards of peoplethat they wear nowadays for ten reasonsHear of the rare talesThat I will … Continue reading → read more

Eel Pastry

Culina vetus on 2024-5-4
Two more recipes from the Philippine Welser collection, and we are finally out of the fruit with sugar and cinnamon section: 77 To make an eel pastry Take an eel and remove its skin. Make nice pieces out of it … Continue reading → read more

On Bathing

Culina vetus on 2024-5-3
This is not really culinary content, but too interesting not to share. The König vom Odenwald also wrote a short poem about why people bathe: IV This is about bathingWhich never hurt anyoneFrom the treasure of my artI must write … Continue reading → read more

Crafting update week 17&18 – Double Wars Prep

Lia's Continued Crafts on 2024-5-3
With my loom empty and only two weeks before Double Wars, I decided to switch to other crafting endeavors. For one: finish working the Ottoman kaftan and zibin with buttons and button loops so I can wear them again. I am not actually planning on read more

Iron Water

Lidian Dyers Association - SCA Dyers of Lough Devnaree and beyond on 2024-4-30
If you want consistent, repeatable colors when modifying your natural dyeing with iron, iron water is not the thing to use. Move along and search online for a recipe to make an iron acetate mordant for anything that requires measurable results. read more

Bustāniyya & Mis̲h̲mis̲h̲iyya

The Joy of Seax on 2024-4-29
There was a practice day run by Master Agnes Boncuer in the Scout Hall in Clara the weekend just gone, courtesy of the good offices of THL Órlaith Caomhánach, and I took the opportunity to try out a couple of recipes on people. Both of these I’ve read more

Meeting cancelled!

Nagonstans i Nordmark on 2024-4-27
Spring is here. So is everything else. Have to adult. No episode today, sorry! read more

settling into the current routine

Kareina's observations on 2024-4-25
 My current schedule is: Weekdays, wake with Keldor just after 05:00, and keep him company in person as we get ready, then on the phone as he does the half hour drive to work, usually arriving around 06:00. Just before 06:00 I hop on my new electric read more

Social Media And the SCA

Orlaith Chaomhanach on 2024-4-23
When I joined the SCA (fadó, fadó) I tried to resist joining Facebook. I found loads of information about the SCA online on SCA websites, and so much really useful stuff on Stefan’s Florilegium and a wonderful selection of SCA blogs all over the read more

Irish Food History: A Companion

The Joy of Seax on 2024-4-21
I haven’t had much time to look at what’s been done in academia around Irish Food History for a couple of years. I made some time for it this weekend, and discovered that Irish Food History: A Companion was part-published in 2023, and the first four read more

The Annals of Connacht

The Irish Ages on 2024-4-20
This week, book of interest, is the Annals of Connacht dealing with moments in time from the 13 th century to the 16 th of century. Why works in the SCA /reenactment on many fronts. If you want an Irish persona, Gaelic, the Annals are proper place read more

Iṭriya (meat dish with dried noodles)

The Joy of Seax on 2024-4-20
Iṭriya (meat dish with dried noodles)Iṭriya is recipe 86 in the Kanz; page 130 in Nawal Nasrallah’s translation, which is the version I’m using. I’ve cooked this a few times now; a couple of times for Dun in Mara Arts & Science Days, and once for read more

History with Flintheath

The Insulae Draconis Baelfyr on 2024-4-20
Originally posted 14th March 2024 Childbirth in the middle ages was a dangerous business; pregnant women were advised to make their confessions before they went into labour just in case. However, this did not mean that women at the time were read more

 

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