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Bess’s Quick and Easy Beer Bread – Bess and the Blog

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Bess and the Blog. Joyful Service, Delectable Art- One SCAdian's journey to learn All of the Things. Bess’s Quick and Easy Beer Bread. As part of the food I did for Mistress Prudence’s vigil I made beer bread. Why? It’s all about 3…2…1…1/2. Take 3 cups of self rising flour. 2 tablespoons sugar, 1- 12 oz. Beer and one 1/2 cup stick of unsalted butter. January 17, 2016. One thought on “ Bess’s Quick and Easy Beer Bread. A Vigil for Mistress Goodheart – Bess and the Blog. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Home of...

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Bess and the Blog – Page 2 – Joyful Service, Delectable Art- One SCAdian's journey to learn All of the Things.

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Bess and the Blog. Joyful Service, Delectable Art- One SCAdian's journey to learn All of the Things. Bess, The Gooseberries and a Pipkin (Round 2)… Also known as, ‘Let’s play in the fire and try something a little different’. To preserve Gooseberies (1596). Braying (pounding from the cone into a finer consistency)the piloncillo sugar. I brayed my sugar. I put a half pound of sugar into the pipkin. Along with a half pound of gooseberries and heated them until the sugar was melted and the berries were heat...

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November 2015 – Bess and the Blog

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Bess and the Blog. Joyful Service, Delectable Art- One SCAdian's journey to learn All of the Things. To make a mutton pottage and painting glasses too…. Yesterday I had the privilege of hosting a small get together with a few friends old and new. Mistress Rafaella, OL came up from Dragon’s Mist to teach us the art of faux glass enameling. If you like to paint things I challenge you to do give this a try. Take her class. Or check out Eulalia’s blog post about it here. Or better yet do both. 3 lbs of lamb.

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Bess, The Gooseberries and a Pipkin (Round 2)… Also known as, ‘Let’s play in the fire and try something a little different’ – Bess and the Blog

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Bess and the Blog. Joyful Service, Delectable Art- One SCAdian's journey to learn All of the Things. Bess, The Gooseberries and a Pipkin (Round 2)… Also known as, ‘Let’s play in the fire and try something a little different’. To preserve Gooseberies (1596). Braying (pounding from the cone into a finer consistency)the piloncillo sugar. I brayed my sugar. I put a half pound of sugar into the pipkin. Along with a half pound of gooseberries and heated them until the sugar was melted and the berries were heat...

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To Feed Princes for Pennies and Other Adventures in Food and Service – Bess and the Blog

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Bess and the Blog. Joyful Service, Delectable Art- One SCAdian's journey to learn All of the Things. To Feed Princes for Pennies and Other Adventures in Food and Service. The good word being that period food is delicious! To me, what makes it special,was I did period food, on a budget of less than $2.00 a head! So, what do you feed Princes and Kings and fighters OH my! Jusselled Dates 14th Century English The savory sweet combo is excellent and easy for travel. I make up my jussell (which is a stuffi...

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To make a tarte that is a courage to a man or a woman, 1596 – Bess and the Blog

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Bess and the Blog. Joyful Service, Delectable Art- One SCAdian's journey to learn All of the Things. To make a tarte that is a courage to a man or a woman, 1596. From the ,. Good Huswife’s Jewell. 1 large sweet potato. 2 Tablespoons dried burdock root. If you are lucky enough to have a Japanese market near you you may be able to obtain frozen gobo which is burdock root. If not, you can often find dried burdock root at health food stores that sell bulk herbs.). 4 cups white wine. 1/4 teaspoon ground clove.

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Bess takes on The Good Huswife’s Jewell and To Preserve Cherries – Bess and the Blog

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Bess and the Blog. Joyful Service, Delectable Art- One SCAdian's journey to learn All of the Things. Bess takes on The Good Huswife’s Jewell and To Preserve Cherries. This week’s trip to the market yielded lovely peaches (posts about pickling all the things and about how. To confite Peaches after the Spanish fashion. Because it seemed to be the most straight forward of the three. ( Read that as I have to figure out logistics for one of them and the other showed up after I had made my choice.). Upon compl...

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When at first you don’t succeed…. Bess, the Good Huswife and whole cherry preserves… – Bess and the Blog

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Bess and the Blog. Joyful Service, Delectable Art- One SCAdian's journey to learn All of the Things. When at first you don’t succeed…. Bess, the Good Huswife and whole cherry preserves…. Mostly that I haven’t had the bandwidth to sit down and write on something that isn’t a medical questionnaire or a to do later list. Though I did squeeze in some time to attend Master Eduardo’s class on competing in Kingdom A&S (more on that a little later.). And then moved on to gooseberries. 8230; All the while, I was ...

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A Vigil for Mistress Goodheart – Bess and the Blog

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Bess and the Blog. Joyful Service, Delectable Art- One SCAdian's journey to learn All of the Things. A Vigil for Mistress Goodheart. Last weekend An Tir celebrated Twelfth Night. And, what a weekend we had! And fire cooked gooseberry jam. That I wrote about and cooked earlier in the year were paired with thick slabs of homemade beer bread. And wedges of aged English cheeses. Since the vigil was held on a Friday, a traditional fish day in Elizabethan England, I. All in all, the food was well received, the...

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To Prepare Chopped Chickens – Bess and the Blog

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Bess and the Blog. Joyful Service, Delectable Art- One SCAdian's journey to learn All of the Things. To Prepare Chopped Chickens. Among the slew of dishes I tested and prepared for the Boar’s Head Hunt and Feast this one really stood out with me. It was also wildly popular at the feast. I took things a step farther than the original to make it an easy to serve, easy to eat, hard to resist open faced sandwich treat. Let’s talk about the unsung awesome that is chopped chickens! 1 whole roasting chicken.