Baronial Yule Celebration
January 5th
St. Timothy's Episcopal Church
January 5th
St. Timothy's Episcopal Church
2601 E Thompson Road
Indianapolis, IN 46227
Schedule
10:00 AM - Open to the Public, Bring lunch (if desired), things to do, etc, etc.
2:00 PM - Golden Tower Meeting
4:30 PM - Baronial Court
5:30 PM - Dinner: During the first part of dinner the cooking competition tasting will be held at head table. See below for competition details.
7:30 PM - Pillaging Gift Exchange: See below for details.
9:00 PM - Site Closes
Period Gaming and other activities are likely during free time.
There will be toys (Real Period-Style Toys) to be given out to children.
Baronial Rapier and Rattan Champions will be installed at court.
Dinner will be a potluck, with meat provided by the Barony and deliciously smoked by Mistress Wulfwen atte Belle!
A Google Doc is now available to share your intended potluck contribution at this link. There are no potluck assignments. GO WILD!
Please be aware that St. Timothy's does not currently have a functioning stove or oven, so plan your dishes accordingly. There will still be easy access to electricity and refrigeration should you need them. Where possible, please include ingredient lists for your homemade dishes as a kindness to those with food allergies.
Period dishes may be entered into the cooking contest, just make sure you have enough for 8-10 people.
Baronial Cooking Competition
To the Populace of the Barony of Sternfeld does the Cooking Guild Announce a Grand
Cooking Competition
At Yule this year the Cooking Guild of Sternfeld will be holding The Fourth Annual Cooking Competition, in an effort to promote the Art of Cooking within the Barony. The winner will have the bragging rights to the title “Baronial Cooking Champion” for one year and the Beautiful Glass Bowl, prizes will be awarded for 2nd and 3rd place (Please note that we are hoping to make this a yearly event to promote cooking within the Barony and this is not the Baronial A&S Champion position.)
Please see the simple guidelines below for the Competition:
- -Single Dish – any type (meat, vegetable, or desert)
- -Must include a list of Ingredients Used (If possible please no Juniper as His Excellency has an Allergy).
- -Must include how the dish was made.
- -Minimum Documentation (Single page OK) a. Can include substations with reason provided (such as “because of cost I used …”, or “if I were making this in period I would have used”)
- -Must be able to Document Recipe from 600~1600 A.D.
- -Proposed Judges: Their Excellencies (one or both), and others to be named.
- -Please have your dishes prepared and displayed at Head Table at 5:30 PM.
- -After judging the dishes will be used are part of the Baronial Yule meal (please make enough to feed 6~8 persons)
b. Extra points could be awarded if also included information on how the dish was cooked in period
Please remember cooking is fun and this is a forum for new cooks and experienced cooks to show case their craft.
Pillaging Gift Exchange
Everyone who wishes to participate brings an inexpensive SCA-related gift of some sort.
(Ideas might be: clothing, uncut fabric in a usable length, feast gear, armor, archery equipment, cooking equipment, spices, herbs, jewelry, etc. Secondhand items are welcome and encouraged! Ideally this will be an opportunity to drag out really cool items that you never really use, and find them new homes with people who will love them. Handmade items are completely appropriate. With this kind of stuff value is relative, so the guideline is that it should be something you think someone would be pleased to receive, but not so valuable that they’d feel awkward.)
All these people sit in one section of the room together with their gifts. All names of those participating are tossed into a hat, and drawn forth. As a person’s name is drawn, they get up and are allowed to pick one person remaining in the original section to receive a gift from. The gift is presented, and the gifter moves to a second seating area. (Those who have received their gifts sit on whichever side is appropriate depending on whether the gift they brought has been chosen or not.)
When the next name is drawn, that person may either choose someone from the available pool to give them a gift, or they may choose to steal a gift away from someone. If they steal a gift, the person who had their gift stolen may steal or choose a gift in turn. That turn ends when a new gift is finally chosen, and another name is drawn.
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