East Kingdom Gazette
Covering the Eastern Realm of the SCA
The following message has been posted to several email lists by the Autocrat of Bellringers: This message is to inform you that this weekends Baronial birthday celebration at Bellringers has been CANCELED due to weather concerns, We will be working with the Boy Scouts to see if we can have an alternate weekend to hold …
The next quarterly meeting of the Board of Directors for the Society for Creative Anachronism will take place on Saturday, April 23, 2016. The start time is 9:00 a.m. PT. The location will be: Mt. Olive Lutheran Church 1989 East Calaveras Milpitas CA 95035 The agenda deadline for this meeting is Friday, April 1, 2016. …
This article appeared in the Æthelmearc Gazette on 1/17/16, and is reprinted below in its entirety. Love to embroider? Does the thought of spending an entire weekend learning and doing needlework fill you with anticipatory joy? The Gazette caught up with two of the organizers of the first ever needlework-centered event in Æthelmearc. The event …
These updates have been gleaned from Kelly Magill’s updates posted on the Society Seneschal’s web page. You can view the originals by starting with this link: January 2016 Board Meeting Updates These are not official minutes of the meeting, and should be treated as unofficial until any changes involved are announced from more formal sources. …
En françis Calling for Content for the East Kingdom 50th Anniversary Displa With less than six months to go, the East Kingdom 50th Anniversary Display Committee is asking all members of the populace to begin submitting photos to be included in the exhibit. The booth design is based on a traveling art exhibit from a major …
Sir Gunther KegSlayer, Deputy Mayor of Planning & Zoning for Pennsic War 45, has posted new procedures for land registration for the upcoming Pennsic War. These procedures can be found here on the official Pennsic website.
From Member Services: We are pleased to let you know that the February 2016 Kingdom Newsletters are now available to all current Sustaining and International members for your review. Are you a New Member? No Registration is Required – to visit the enewsletter site, please go to http://enewsletter.sca.org to access. Please use your Membership Number …
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Recommendations for TRH Kenric and Avelina’s first order polling are due on January 10th, 2016.
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Unto the Populace of the great East Kingdom does the Chancellor of the Exchequer send greetings. At the October 2015 Board Meeting the Board of Directors expressed a desire to provide the Kingdoms with the ability to use PayPal as a replacement to the prior online event reservation tool. If the East is to use …
Our fifth A&S Research Paper comes to us from Baroness Alesone Grey, Sugarwricht, and is drawn from her studies in historical confectionary, specifically the preserving of fruits with sugar. (Prospective future contributors, please check out our original Call for Papers.)
The Most Kindly Way To Preserve
One of the great joys of preserving the harvest is you can enjoy summer time fruits all year round, including in the dark days of winter. Many fruits have a very short season and need to be picked and eaten or preserved quickly. In the United States, the tart cherry season lasts 1-2 weeks in June. Apricots are 4-6 weeks starting around mid May. Peaches and plums start around the end of June and can last through August, depending on region. Apples, pears, quince and crab apples start their peak in September-October. There are a few varieties of fruits that have 2 seasons; among them are figs, which are picked in early spring and early fall.
But which method of preservation is ideal for various fruits? It depends.
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