This is mostly meant as a visual tour of what I did at the fort last weekend. 😉 Enjoy!
Please note, this is a VERY pic heavy post, which is why images are behind the “more” line.
Allyson, working on making turkey soup from the leftover carcass. Her sweetie is in the background, building up the fire for her.Ally is squeezing fresh lemon into the broth.Lots of garlic into the broth, right before adding the lemon.Fire building equipment!The Rich Cake, in all it’s glory.Allyson is quite pleased with herself over this cake.Fetching the Rich Cake out of the beehive oven.Pies and bread baking in the oven.These two were having way too much fun LOLAllyson talking to patrons while setting her bread out for a second rise.Explaining the baking process to patrons.More explaining.Showing people the size of bread trough I use when making dough at the fort.Punching the dough down.Once the dough is punched down, it gets rolled into loaves.Kneading the dough a bit before cutting it into loaf sized pieces.Checking the feel of the dough.Separating the dough into four parts.Allyson and GeoffreyAllyson and her Sweetie.Allyson and Sweetie, another pose.Allyson working on meal prep and her Sweetie having a drink of water.Peeking out of the window in the Great Hall.The dashing Geoffrey, in his tricorn.Geoffrey the working class man.Saturday morning, about 5am, as the sun was coming up over the palisade.Geoffrey, prepping food for the big dinner on Saturday.The first knead on the bread dough.The serving table, full of food cooked by Ally and brought by others.Most of the reenactors enjoying the evening meal.Silliness and prep for Saturday’s feast ongoing, as we talk to a patron.Ally’s sweetie trying to rescue her pies.Sun coming up over the fort, pic taken from the window of the Great Hall.The first knead, ongoing.Allyson loves to bake at the Fort.Scraping flour and dough off the sides of the bowl, to reincorporate it into the main dough.Ally and Sweetie, enjoying dinner.More Fort folk, enjoying the meal.More fort folk, enjoying the meal.More attendees at the dinner.The 15th century contingent, eating and enjoying.Yet more Fort folks.Did someone see a herd of locusts go by?Foooooood.Geoffrey and his lovely lady wife.More images of the dinner, as the eating part came to a close.Lining up to get food!So many people, it was amazing.
Now im hungry!