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River War- How to run a happy kitchen

Posted by: Alysten on: January 19, 2010

Here is the documentation for the class How to run a happy kitchen. Lessons from a restaurant chef and how it applies to the SCA, time management, pre-prep, using your staff effectively and menu design Full class outline located here.

Class documentation- spices

Posted by: Alysten on: September 20, 2009

Spices and their use in the medieval kitchen-  Hands on class of period spices. What do they smell like, what properties will they impart to your food, whole vs ground and how to buy/use whole spices. Spice Class Outline



  • opusanglicanum: there is a c15th version, and the latest example (the one I used) was from richard dolby cook's dictionary of 1832, quoted in elizabeht ayrtons englis
  • Alysten: I've done several galentines that require that level of boning. But I haven't done one of those types of subtleties yet. I am hoping to attempt one w
  • opusanglicanum: havae you tried the seventeenth century thing where you bone out a whole chicken (that bits tricky as you have to bone it complete from the inside, in

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