Sunday, February 26, 2023

Rhyming Cheese Tarts

 Rhyming Cheese Tarts

Our coffins fair for this rhyme
We must make them ahead of time.
Ingredients we need to gather ‘round:
Flour by the cup, not a pound
Sugar, half the amount, to give some flavor
Butter, melted, we’ll use it later
Saffron and water, we’ll add it to the mix
Instructions for this tasty fix:
In a bowl, flour and sugar we’ll blend
Butter, melted, we’ll add in the end
Saffron bloomed in water hot,
Two tablespoons is not a lot.
Stir it all up, until it’s a crumble
Using our hands, so that we do not fumble.
Gather the dough, form it into a ball
Flatten it out, give it a quick sprawl
Wrap it up, on the counter let it sit
Preheat the oven, let it heat until it’s fit.
Flatten it out, fit it in our tart dishes
Press it in, trim the edges, if those are your wishes
Prick the bottom, so steam can escape
Bake it up, until it’s golden and great.
Cool it down, then fill with your choice
Serve it up, hear everyone rejoice.


Filling to make our tarts
Ingredients to gather, let’s make a start:
Crush the saffron and add it to a cup
Add some water and heat it all up.
Eggs beaten without salt if you please,
Take the same volume of our basket cheese.
Half that volume of sugar fine for a sweet touch
Instructions to make these tarts tell so much:
The cheese and sugar you must grind
So that a paste is made very fine.
Add the water and saffron
To color it well anon.
In with the eggs beaten well
Mixed fine before we add them to our shells
The taste and color should be like bliss
Pour the filling into the shells, don’t be remiss
Bake it up, until the filling is set
Let it cool, then serve it, don’t fret
Enjoy these tarts, they’ll surely please
A tasty snack, with cheese, eggs, and saffron, at ease.

Scroll Text - Stasha of Hunters Home - Golden Alce 2023

 Scroll Text - Stasha of Hunters Home - Golden Alce 2023


Kingdom of AEthelmearc - Martial Award

O listen to the words of your Sovereigns. Whereas anciently from the beginning, the valiant and virtuous acts of worthy persons have been commended to the world with sundry monuments and remembrances of their good skills. Stasha of Hunters Home has done commendable deeds behind and around siege engines upon the battle fields of War Practice and at Pennsic. It is only fitting that We should recognize her efforts and welcome her into Our Noble Order of the Golden Alce that all may know of her worth. So say We Arnthor and Ceirich, King and Queen of Sylvan AEthelmearc, on this 25th day of February, anno societatis seven and fifty, in Our castle in Our Shire of Hunters Home, at Bear's Event.

Based on an English Patent of Arms to an Individual, 1576

Monday, February 20, 2023

Knock Knock!

 Who's There?

I have some sad news: Knock knock jokes aren't period. 

I had thought that they were popular in the late middle ages, but other than Shakespeare using something like a knock knock jokes in the Scottish Play called Macbeth, there's nothing. 

Knock, knock! Who's there, in the other devil's
name? Faith, here's an equivocator, that could
swear in both the scales against either scale;
who committed treason enough for God's sake,
yet could not equivocate to heaven: O, come
in, equivocator. [Act 2, Scene 3]

Actual knock knock jokes started in the early 1900s with newspaper cartoons in the format of:

Do you know {person's name}
[Person's name} who?
{Pun based on person's name}


These jokes turned into actual knock knock jokes in the 1930s with ad campaigns.

Knock! Knock!
Who's there?
Don.
Don who?
Don forget to do your shopping at the Cash and Carry


Knock, knock.
Who's there?
Rufus.
Rufus who?
Rufus the most important part of the house!



According to NPR:
"You can't turn the radio on anymore without getting one of the Knock-Knock gags," Jean Mackenzie observed in a radio-listening column in the July 25, 1936, News Herald of Franklin, Pa. "They're fun and when some of the better orchestras perform them, they're screams. But you've probably found that out for yourself."


I am disappointed, I was planning a lengthy research paper on the medieval origins, but now I have to think of something else.



Weeks, Linton. “The Secret History Of Knock-Knock Jokes.” NPR, 3 Mar. 2015, Https://www.npr.org/sections/npr-history-dept/2015/03/03/389865887/the-secret-history-of-knock-knock-jokes.

Wednesday, February 8, 2023

Scroll Text - Fuego - ODC 2022

Scroll Text - Fuego - ODC 2022

Barony of the Rydderich Hael - Martial Award

Forasmuch as we have been familiarized with the fantastic and feisty fights of our subject, the friendly and fleet of foot Fuego, the facts of her frequent foray with foible and forte as well as her free floating facsimile of the framework of the famous Fiore have caught our eyes as we followed her fencing career. Never fainthearted, the aforsaid Fuego feints and fakes her attackers, forcing her frenemies into fatal failure as she faces down all who flounce onto the field. Far be it for us to, in good faith, feign ignorance and not choose favorites do, at this time, favor the aforesaid and faithful Fuego with this fait accompli: entrance into the Order of the Dragon’s Combatant forever more. Done by the hands of Padraig and Juliana, face to face, at our final forum, on the 17th day of December, AS fifty-five plus two.