Cordials cordials and more cordials.

[alinore]

I've finished my cordials and now they're in jars in a closet so they can age. The process of finishing them was pouring them in a strainer with a clean towel in it and squeezing all the liquid out, then adding a sugar syrup to them and pouring them into a canning jar to age. Right now I have 6 cordials in my closet aging. I am especially

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[patsmor]

I wish I could appreciate cordials more. They're very pretty. ;-)

Tell me about the food project. Are you working up to something specific?

[alinore]

My food project is basically taking the opportunity presented to me with the SCA to try my hand at cooking medieval foods. I really enjoy regular cooking and so far I've enjoyed the different period foods that I've tried.

I'm something of a foodie, so it makes sense to me to take a hobby I really enjoy and see how it translates into an SCA setting. So far, having a blast with it.

[patsmor]

It's always interesting to me to see how people get into what interests them. I got into food because of feasts -- I am one of those people who has trouble saying "yes" when asked to help, and one of my only skills when I found the SCA (as opposed to my studies, which included medieval lit) is/was making food for hordes of people. So I ended up being a kitchen slavey and learning from the practical side rather than the artistic side. Moving to more and more period sources and understanding the period aesthetic rather than the modern has been the harder part for me.

[alinore]

I started helping my mom (and the rest of my family, they all cook) from the time I could hold a spoon. It may have made more work for them, but they were always willing to let me help out. And gradually, we got more and more complicated in the recipes that we would attempt, until finally we were bringing out the complicated French stuff.

So when I started the SCA, I was interested in cooking, but until recently the shire hasn't done a whole lot on the A&S/cooking side of things and I was hesitant to explore it by myself. What I'm finding most interesting so far is the way they use spices and herbs. It isn't the way you would usually use them, but quite tasty.