Crown Tournament Feast 2015

The evening of 12th Night, 2013, just as the site was closing and the last of the staff were cleaning the site — I was thanking everyone for staying and helping, as a Baroness will do. We were just finishing up in the kitchen where I was contemplating the wondrous feast that head chef Renaude…

A Birthday Celebration – Luncheon Feast

One Saturday in May several of us gathered for a fun event called “The Half Century Holiday”. This event was sponsored by our Barony and was held as a birthday celebration in honor of Her Grace, Anne Marie. There was fighting, classes, A&S and everything typical of an SCA Event. I had the honor of being…

The Salon…an emergency exercise in finger foods

About two days prior to the Baronial event “St. Cecilia at the Tower, ” I had been chatting with His Excellency when he informed me that, in addition to the other duties he’d have to perform that weekend as our Baronial figurehead, he was planning to have to cook something for a Baronial event that weekend. Having…

A Japanese scroll for Baroness Kasha

I don’t even know where to begin with this! I guess the beginning, as Maria would say! 🙂 At Terpsichore at the Tower this year (AS 50) Their Majesties made it known to our Barony the lovely news that our own Baroness Kasha would be elevated to the Order of the Laurel. Such excitement ….and we were all…

A German Vigil Feast for Genoveva

My good friend Genoveva von Lübeck is going to be inducted into the Order of the Laurel. I am so happy and proud of her. I offered my help in any way possible — and she gave me the pleasure of asking me to help with the food for her first vigil! It was held in our Barony…

Cookie Contest Winner

After years of tasting, it finally happened! I won our Barony’s annual Cynnabar Cookie Contest this past year at Wassail. Back to the first Baronial lineage in the Barony of Cynnabar, was started a “Cynnabar Cookie Contest” held at our annual Wassail event (generally in December). WASSAIL! Originally, I believe it was started because we stopped holding the “Bean Cake” tradition…

Are you there blog world? It’s me. Hannah.

Hello blog world…it’s me, Hannah. Well, here we go…off to the adventure of writing blog posts. My main goal in doing this is to get some of the things that I work on out there on the world wide web. I know…new concept, right. Well, for me it is. I’m both terrified and excited. I…