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Medieval Feast
The Boar's Head Feast was this evening! The menu was as follows:
Piggys (meat "hedgehogs")
Foyles (thin pancakes with ginger)
Pipefarces (wine-battered, fried cheese sticks)
Asparagus boiled in wine
Papyns (poached eggs in a saffron-honey sauce)
Leeks cooked with Walnuts
Rota (barley and fruit soup)
Blak Perys (pears with carob cream)
Salad with mint
Bread, cheese, fruit, nuts
Mead, wine, cider
I think it was the best feast yet. Mark Lambert, Jean French, and (briefly) Alice Stroup came, and besides that there were around 25 or so students, including my dear supportive friends. Jess and I were an hour late because of cooking. Finally we got there, and after everyone was seated Kirsten, Jess and I came in singing the Boar's Head Carol, with me carrying the boar's head. The boar's head was really cool, by the way. Jami made it out of clay over a frame of chicken wire. It had tusks and a spine at the back of its head and Aristotle coming out of its mouth, and it sat on a tray in a bed of ivy and apples. After dinner there were readings. I read an ubi suntish passage of Beowulf (2247-2266) and "Lo ferm voler" by Arnaut Daniel. Raechel read Deor. Jess read "the Lay of the Chevrefoil," and Kirsten sang "Greensleeves." Afterwards we danced a brasnle to "Bache Bene Venies" and "Heartsease" and finally "Toss the Duchess," that perennial favorite, which got nice and rowdy as it always does. As far as I can tell everyone had a good time--I know I did. My last Christmastime feast at Bard...well, I'm going to do one more feast in the Spring, with Senior Project readings and horses.
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