Ria has an extensive post about the party here.
Here are some of the foods we had at the feast including links to recipes I was able to find (more coming).
- Grape Juice
- Almonds
- Figs
- Dates
- Cheese (I'm not sure what kind we had)
- Fava Beans
- Ham (one of my nephews carved the ham into the Boar's Head pictured above)
- Red Wine Sauce for the Ham (the alcohol, of course, is cooked off - I'm hoping that "coyote" will share the recipe with us - it was quite good!)
- Custards
- Libum
Of course we had to sing The Boar's Head Carol in honor of the centerpiece. There was a costume contest and a team skit contest based on portions of the Aeneid (this is a regular feature of their club meetings).
I thought it was particularly interesting to celebrate the party in presence of a relic of St. Matthew (which was given to us a few years ago). Rather appropriately, we also had a handful of ancient Roman coins (after all, Matthew was a tax collector).
2 comments:
Looks and sounds wonderful! Can you speak Latin?? I found your site through a link of a link, and I believe I had brunch at your brother and sister-in-law's home in Fillmore, CA a while back. My husband and I are also TAC grads.
That sounds right and I'll bet it was delicious!
I speak only a little; I'm definitely better at reading. I've been teaching Henle I for a few years now in our homeschool co-op. Amazing how the students can pass up the teacher - all in all it works out rather well.
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