Midwinters Silk Road Feast Cookbook!

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fearga posted this in her LJ, so it occurs to me I could post it in mine! At long last, the cookbook from the Silk Road themed Midwinters Feast that hrothgar1, Yseult, Isobel, and I cooked in February is now available for purchase...


Greetings to all,

The cooks of this year's Adiantum Midwinter's Feast (February 2007)
are pleased to announce the completion of a cookbook detailing the
recipes and research from our culinary caravan along the Silk Road.
The cookbook includes over 28 delicious period recipes with modern
redactions and commentary, spiced with tidbits about the cultures and
ingredients, an introductory bibliography and list of websites, and
thematic illustrations.

Both the feast and the cookbook rose from our desire to share some of
the medieval food we have explored in the last year and to inspire
other cooks, whether novice or experienced, to do the same. Our
theme, the Silk Road, was a way to showcase the cultures that
Medieval and Renaissance Europe knew by way of trade and legend.

First, we offer a simple European peasant lunch, including these
recipes:
Soops of butter’d carrots
Flavored cheese
Jellied grape juice slugs
Plum pies

We begin the feast as the day begins, in the east, with the food of
Northern China and Mongolia, the eastern terminus of the Silk Road:

Soup for the Qan
Dragon Noodles
Tea Eggs

Thence we journey west to the Middle East:

Halawiya (lamb-chickpea stew)
Badinjan Muhassa (eggplant dip)
Labneh with Zatar (spiced yogurt cheese)
Oranges & Rosewater
Apricot Paste Mosaics
Sekanjebin Drink

We then take ship across the Mediterranean Sea to the third remove in
Italy:

Romania (chicken in pomegranate)
Roast Onion Salad
Bread Grails with dried fruit gems
Torta Bianca (cheesecake)
Gilded Egg Bread
Candied Orange Peel

Finally, we wend our way north to Elizabethan England:

Subtlety of Roast Slug
Mustard Sauce
Sauce Verte
Renaissance Salad
Lombardy Custard
Stuffed Mushrooms
Boiled Garlic
Shortbread

...and more besides. The cook book is 49 pages long, with a hand-
stitched pamphlet binding, and is available for $8. Profits will be
donated to the Barony of Adiantum. To purchase, please respond
offlist to elm at efn dot org, or contact Marian Staarveld or Raven
Qara ton at events.

Please forward this notice to any relevant lists.

yours in service,

Raven Qara ton, O.L.
Marian Staarveld, O.L., fifth Baroness of Adiantum
Yseult of Broceliande, O.P., third Baroness of Adiantum
Isobel of Clan MacKenzie, J. de L.