[MR] Stefan's Florilegium files for July

[Olwen the Odd]

Greetings to SCA folk across the Known World!

Here is a copy of my Florilegium article for July, detailing what is  new in 
the Florilegium this month.

As usual this should be going out to all the kingdom mailing lists,  whether 
directly from me or through various representatives. I like  to have backups 
for these folks in case they are off on vacation when  I send out this 
message or otherwise occupied with that thing called  "a real life". I 
believe I need some backup representatives for the  following kingdoms, 
Atlantia, Caid, Drachenwald, Ealdormere,  Meridies, Outlands and Trimaris. 
These folks would hold my message  and send it on to the list only if the 
message didn't appear from the  primary kingdom representative. I definitely 
do not want to spam a  list with multiple messages or if it is unwanted 
there.

If you are interested in helping out in this way, please contact me  by 
email.

As usual, I am always looking for good, interesting articles for the  
Florilegium. This could include a class handout or an A&S paper or  contest 
documentation if they will stand alone without the class or  the actual A&S 
object.

If you have an idea for an article that you would like to see in the  
Florilegium, I would appreciate that as well. Perhaps someone is just  
waiting for an article idea or two.

Thanks,
  Stefan
-----
A Blending of the Past and Present

Over the past sixteen years in an ongoing effort, I have been  collecting 
bits of useful information from various newsgroups, mail  lists and articles 
submitted to me by their authors. In order to make  this information 
available to others, I have placed this information  in a series of files I 
call Stefan's Florilegium.

The Florilegium is on the web at: http://www.florilegium.org

I am always interested in new articles. If you have written an  article that 
would be of interest to others in the SCA, please send  it to me for 
possible inclusion in the Florilegium. Contact me for  more details.

I am also interested in volunteers who might be interested in helping  me 
maintain the Florilegium. Everything from collecting materials,  editing and 
web work is needed. Again, please contact me for more  details.

For those who would like to help support the Florilegium project in  another 
way, I have added a PayPal donation button on the top page of  the site. Any 
donations, while not tax deductible, do help pay the  overhead costs of 
keeping the site running.

     THLord Stefan li Rous   Ansteorra    stefan at florilegium.org

Here are the new files for this month:
In the COMMERCE section:
   silk-road-msg        The silk road medieval trade route.
In the FEASTS section:
   cookng-grains-msg    Cooking grains in quantity.
In the FOOD section:
   whey-cheeses-msg     Cheeses such as ricotta made from the liquid
                           left after making other cheeses.
In the FOOD-SWEET section:
   pulled-sugar-msg     The case for and against pulled/spun sugar
                           being period.
   rice-pudding-msg     Period rice puddings, both savory and sweet.
   snow-msg             “Snow”, a white, creamy confection often
                            served with wafers.

Here are some of the updated files.
   absinthe-msg         A cordial made with wormwood.
   bread-for-fsts-msg   Baking and buying bread for SCA feasts.
   burials-msg          Period funeral practices.
   cider-msg            Apple and other ciders. Cider presses.
   dayboards-msg        SCA dayboards, middle-of-the-day meals.
   feast-serving-msg    Ideas for serving feasts. How to organize.
   fowls-a-birds-msg    Period fowls and birds. Period Chickens.
   fresh-cheeses-msg    Fresh cheeses cream cheese and cottage cheese.
                           Non-aged cheeses.
   frittours-msg        Period fried breaded foods. Recipes.
   fruit-quinces-msg    Period uses and recipes for quinces.
   ham-msg              Period ham. Modern sources. Recipes.
   mustard-msg          Mustard seed in period. sauces. recipes.
   plums-msg            Period plums and plum recipes.
   rotten-meat-msg      Comments on the "they used spices to cover
                           the taste of rotten meat" myth.
   sauces-msg           Period sauces. Sauce recipes.
   taverns-msg          SCA and period taverns.
   verjuice-msg         Medieval verjuice. Modern substitutions.
   vinegar-msg          Vinegar in period. Making vinegar.
   waterbearing-msg     Water and beverage distribution at events.
---
Copyright 2006, Mark S. Harris.
Permission to reprint in SCA-related publications is hereby granted  if the 
contents are left unchanged and the author is notified of the  publication. 
Notification may be by email and reformatting is allowed.

<end>
--------
THLord Stefan li Rous    Barony of Bryn Gwlad    Kingdom of Ansteorra
   Mark S. Harris           Austin, Texas           
StefanliRous at austin.rr.com
**** See Stefan's Florilegium files at: http://www.florilegium.org ****