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Tickets, not refundable, are $60.00 per guest for all seats.
Advance
Reservations only.
Seating is
limited to 40 guests.
No
cameras / cell phones, please.
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Lent, in medieval Europe, was observed as a period of fasting and
penitence in preparation for Easter, beginning on Ash Wednesday and lasting 40
days (excluding Sundays) until Easter, during which meat and dairy products were
not to be eaten. One
meal, in penance, was to be eaten late in the afternoon (early evening).
Many, especially those who did not live near the sea, or did not own
private fish ponds, grew tired of the
standard diet of dried salt herring.
The fourth Sunday in Lent, known as Mid-Lent Sunday, was sometimes
treated as a feast to brighten lagging spirits.
Skillful cooks found ways to follow the fasting rule without denying
pleasure to the palate.
Thus yeast dough was substituted for pastry with egg binders, almond milk
for meat stock in stews; food was fried in oil instead of fat, and fish, of
course, was substituted for flesh and fowl.
Thus, fine meat dishes were transformed into delicious Lenten
equivalents. In
this spirit we have created for your enjoyment a ten-dish meal, with seafood,
vegetables and sweets, presented in our usual Banquet
format.
Minstrels entertain with live music from medieval Europe.
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Le
Menu
Cours
i
TRENCHER
BREAD (to
eat upon)
BAKED
SHRYMPS
SPRING
SALAT
EGERDUSE
(sweet & sour fish)
FYSSH
IN GALYNTYNE (a sauce with
galingale)
FYGEY
(fig & almond pudding)
TABLE
WINE - MUSTE (spiced juice)
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Cours
ii
AQUAPATYS
(boiled garlic)
CABOCHES
IN POTAGE (cabbage & leek pottage)
TART
DE BRYMLENT (cod & fruit
pie)
COUDRE
EN TENS DE NOIS (roast salmon
in hazelnut sauce)
PYNADE
(pears & pine nuts)
MEDE
(honey wine) - MUSTE
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