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The lazy reenactor girl on 2023-9-30

Upcoming Activities
Knights Crossing on 2023-9-28
📅October 4, 7:00pm: SCA-Bastelabend auf Deutsch! https://meet.jit.si/SCA-BastelabendEin Online-Jitsi-Treffen, bei dem Menschen an ihren Projekten arbeiten und alles rund um SCA diskutieren können, komplett auf Deutsch. 📅October 8: Picnic & Practice read/watch moreFood for Musicians(25 Sep 2023)
An American Reenactor Abroad on 2023-9-25
Planning begins for another feast. read/watch moreHow to make beeswax cloths
Handcrafted History on 2023-9-25
Beeswax cloths are a really simple way of storing food or a picnic snack during your historical event, and they are also nice to cover bowls and jugs! After this year’s Double Wars event when our encampments got overrun with … Continue reading → read/watch moreVirtues with beer: largess
The lazy reenactor girl on 2023-9-23

Officer Position Open!
Knights Crossing on 2023-9-22
**English Below** Unsere Ministerin für Kunst & Wissenschaft (Barbara von Kempe) ist schon viel länger im Amt als üblich und hat sich eine Auszeit redlich verdient! Daher suchen wir nach jemandem, der die Position übernehmen kann. Hauptaufgaben read/watch moreIsn’t soapstone made of talc which can be a carcinogen?
The Joy of Seax on 2023-9-20
Hello Anon! It would be more accurate to say that talc is made from soapstone. Talc can be a carcinogen, or at least there's a correlation between its (prolonged) use and some cancers. However, it's specifically the very fine loose dust that does read/watch moresoapstone carving at the pancake war, yummy food, and uni work
Kareina's observations on 2023-9-19

Fermented Oatmeal Porridge
The Joy of Seax on 2023-9-18

Standard Oatmeal Porridge
The Joy of Seax on 2023-9-18
My initial feeling was that standard oatmeal porridge didn’t need much describing, so this post was here more for the sake of completeness than anything else. I’ve since found, as I talk to people about it and read about that there are a lot of read/watch moreThe Irish Porridge Project
The Joy of Seax on 2023-9-18
We know that cereal grains were in use in pre-Norman Ireland. We also know that yeast baking doesn’t work very well in Ireland’s climate, such that soda bread is the traditional Irish loaf, rather than the yeast breads and sourdoughs that most other read/watch moreFäktstege Ezechiel vs ÆrikR
Gyllengran's Youtube channel on 2023-9-18
Cooking in Stoneware Pots
The Joy of Seax on 2023-9-18
For my elevation, Órlaith and Gytha got me a stoneware cooking pot. This is a pot made of actual stone - soapstone - and of a kind widely used in the Middle East in the era in which al-Warraq was writing. I have finally gotten a chance to try it read/watch moreOctober Dragon’s Tale has been published
Drachenwald Blog on 2023-9-17
Greetings good people of Drachenwald! The Chronicler has published the October Dragon’s Tale for your enjoyment. This links directly to the current newsletter (.pdf), and does not need a password. If this doesn’t work you can follow this link to the read/watch moreBaronial Change Over!
Knights Crossing on 2023-9-16
Here ends the reign of Their Excellencies William Gifford and Katherina Mornewegh and begins the reign of Their Excellencies Swanhilde von Bärenau and Anke die Bärenfängerin! Vivat! read/watch moreVinegar Pickling in Medieval Europe
The Joy of Seax on 2023-9-14
For the last several years, I have had a research issue. Provoked by some of the discussion in this post on /r/AskHistorians (I am gothwalk in those comments), I went looking for evidence of vinegar pickling in Medieval Europe. I did not find it. read/watch moreincremental progress is still progress
Kareina's observations on 2023-9-13

Upcoming Activities
Knights Crossing on 2023-9-11
📅Sept 15-17: Challenges of the West by Drei Eichen (Neunkirchen-Seelscheid, Germany)https://www.facebook.com/events/262215862824003⚔️Challenges of the West IV is an Event hosted by the Canton of Drei Eichen and the Shire of Roterde in the lovely read/watch moreyou mentioned you have a theory about british cheese, and i have to say, i’m deeply curious.
The Joy of Seax on 2023-9-10
It's not a particularly complex theory. In essence: through the later medieval era and into the early modern in Britain, cheese was not a favoured food. It was what you ate with food, or when there was nothing else to eat (and this attitude is read/watch moreMedieval painting – the practical bit
The lazy reenactor girl on 2023-9-9

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