In 2024, again the Madrone Culinary Guild provided lunch for the attendees at the Society for Creative Anachronism event called Athenaeum. We wanted to rely on what had worked well in the past while providing an opportunity for all guild members to enjoy the event away from kitchen duties. All…
One of the goals in the Madrone Culinary Guild’s Statement of Purpose is to research, design, cook, and serve banquets that are the best we can do with 21st century food sources and equipment. Scan the list of Banquets on the website, and it’s clear that right after the Guild…
As promised in our previous blog post, Lunch for Athenaeum, 2019, here is what we did when the event called Athenaeum again took place in person. In our mission to serve as a resource for people who participate in the Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA) to become familiar with historical…
The Madrone Culinary Guild’s service to the Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA), is to research medieval and Renaissance food and to prepare meals based on the research. In 2019, an event called Athenaeum was taking place in our area. Athenaeum was a single-day, non-competitive showcase where many SCA artists and…
One of our leading culinary researchers recently attended a lecture by food historian Jim Chevalier on Early Frankish Foods, hosted by the Culinary Historians of San Diego. In addition to a discussion of the foods mentioned in Anthimus, and in the Capitulary de Villis, he spoke about the types of…
The rhythm of life in the Middle Ages in most of Western Europe was governed by the seasons as much as by the calendar of the liturgical year. The people who did the labor to produce food were busy. Each task had to be done in the proper time of…
The Mary Rose, King Henry VIII’s pride of the fleet, sank in the Solent in southern England during a sea battle with the French in 1545. The wreck was discovered in the mud under the Solent water in 1971 and excavated starting in 1979. In 1982 a section of the…
We’ve added two recipes to our “Recipes to Download” page. Click here to view or download our versions of Ginger Cheesecake from Martino and Cauliflower Tourte from Scappi.
This is the second part of an excerpt from a Book of Courtesy [a 15th century English treatise on manners] Don’t cram your cheeks out with food like an ape, for if any one should speak to you, you can’t answer, but must wait. Don’t eat on both sides of…
This is an excerpt from a Book of Courtesy [a 15th century English treatise on manners] The First Book. In this book you may learn Courtesy. Every one needs it. On reaching a Lord’s gate, give the Porter your weapon, and ask leave to go in. If the master is…
