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Bright Hills Cooks Guild - Trial by Fire
Sep. 7th, 2009 07:16 pmMy intrepid readers know I have been preparing the past week to compete at the Bright Hills Cooks Guild event "Trial by Fire". It was this past Sunday and as always is was loads of fun!
I entered two dishes -
in the Meat Catagory, a 16th Century Stewed Mutton (with a lamb substitute) from "A Propre new booke of Cokery" (1545)
in the Dessert Catagory a 16th Century dessert "Strawberries with Sweetened Cream"
The Photos of my dishes were take by Lord Seamus O'Loughlin, Grand Champion at this years TBF and past Guild Master of the Bright Hills Cooks Guild.
I scored 60/75 on the Stew and 56/75 on the Dessert. I was apparently a close second for my two catagories.
Whew, I labored over the documentation. Her Excellency, Countess Adelicia of Cumbria offered to review my Stewed Mutton docs for me and pointed out some things that I could do to improve them. She was a great help as I ended up scoring 15/15 for my documentation for that recipe and 14/15 for the strawberries! Now that my brain is working again I want to tweak my docs by adding some details about the ingredients that I felt I should have included.
There were 5 other entrants and we had a total of about 16 dishes all together. After the judging we got to eat the entries for dinner! It was all excellent food and I came home stuffed!
I had such a good time this year that I think I will try again next year!
I entered two dishes -
in the Meat Catagory, a 16th Century Stewed Mutton (with a lamb substitute) from "A Propre new booke of Cokery" (1545)
in the Dessert Catagory a 16th Century dessert "Strawberries with Sweetened Cream"
The Photos of my dishes were take by Lord Seamus O'Loughlin, Grand Champion at this years TBF and past Guild Master of the Bright Hills Cooks Guild.
I scored 60/75 on the Stew and 56/75 on the Dessert. I was apparently a close second for my two catagories.
Whew, I labored over the documentation. Her Excellency, Countess Adelicia of Cumbria offered to review my Stewed Mutton docs for me and pointed out some things that I could do to improve them. She was a great help as I ended up scoring 15/15 for my documentation for that recipe and 14/15 for the strawberries! Now that my brain is working again I want to tweak my docs by adding some details about the ingredients that I felt I should have included.
There were 5 other entrants and we had a total of about 16 dishes all together. After the judging we got to eat the entries for dinner! It was all excellent food and I came home stuffed!
I had such a good time this year that I think I will try again next year!
