A post for Anna

GoED post mortem

Peascods in lent (GHwJ):

900 gm of figs is enough for ADD(80 people)

soaked with 1 cup wine and 1 cup water add a cup of water in the morning and boil.

used sultanens

 some dates min 100 gm

instead of deep frying try baking

3 pie crust recipes not enough for filling

Beef:

roasted until falling apart! very lovely, rubbed in spiced for cameline meat bruet and then seared  doused in vinegar added a little water (could use apple juice) . Low temp oven (200f) for 7 hrs for just under 6kg of beef

Sop of onions (GHwJ):

Everyone really loved it, just onions cooked down in butter, never did add the water to it.

Barley( from Scappi):

soaked and rinsed but not nearly long enough or enough rinsing. Added a fat lamb broth, cinnamon, and pepper. Tasty, could use less cinnamon and more pepper. Any fat broth would be nice!

Elizabethan bisket bread :

strongly flavored, 20 gm anise seed and 20 gm coriander mix up in the measure, should have had less coriander, or more anise, depends on how you look at it.  1/3 batch about 8-10 waffles 1/4 waffle is fine per person. "Flavor is intense" needs lots of butter when cooking, Need to double check measures and proportions.

Goose (Scappi):

The meat was tasty, moist and tender, cooked until the bird was falling apart. Boiled in salt water. Left no salty taste, lovely way to cook a goose and have it be non greasy.

Rice:

Boiled in the goose broth, a little too salty. Next time thin the broth with water or another non salty broth.

Egg pie (GHwJ):

made triple the crust at the same time, 1 cup flour to 1/3 cup fat(butter) used 8 eggs and 6Tbsp rosewater

The pie itself had 12 eggs per with 3 Tbsp of rosewater and 3 Tbsp sugar.

Over cooked, but getting there in terms of flavor. next time, less sugar and a little more rose. I think 4T and 2T

Herb fritters:

simple, take any amount of flour and add herbs until mingled in a savory amount, add yeast and warm water then set aside. the longer this sits the better the flavor I have discovered. There are no real amounts or proportions it is very much an eyeball and taste sort of thing. I used herbs of provence (blend) added dill, salt pepper and parsley.

these were again wonderful especially with the dark honey!

Spinach fritters (GHwJ):

2700 gm chopped spinach

I think 4 eggs

I sprinkled in dry bread crumbs until I got a texture that was stable and would hold together

I used a generic tea spoon to measure and used 5-6 or cinnamon and the same amount of ginger I used 1/2 as much mace and sprinkled in some black pepper and salt.

It is a basic beer batter for them to be fried in, like a pancake batter with beer and flour only.

This is the begining of my "notes to self" about th emenu for GoED

 

 

*The Good Housewifes Jewel

Missed a day on my challenge but am still doing ok I think :)