Blackfriars Medieval Banquets – (Sample Menu)

The year is 1306 and we, the Dominican Monks and Nuns, are delighted to welcome you to the Guest Hall of Blackfriars Friary and to this gastronomic feast. Tonight we will entertain you with a Mead Reception, hearty food including Roast Pigge, sausages, drumsticks, Fine Wine, Strong Ale, lively entertainment, and the famous St Michaelmas Pye! And as tradition dictates, an elegant ring will be hidden within the pye with the lucky recipient surely being the next to wed!  Today is a celebration of the bountiful harvest where we pay homage to the natural cycle of birth, life and death!

Mead Reception
This is where guests will be greeted by our resident court entertainer, Peter Bull.

Welcomes & Grace
You will be invited for welcomes and to say Grace.

First Remove
Delicious Spinnage pye or Watercress sallet with cowcumber and violet vinagre

Second Remove
Spit roasted suckling Pigge with a variety of condiments- stue of orenges with clove, quinces preserved with cinnamon, pears and saffron, frumenty, Hodgepodge, petitoes roasted with apples, turnep root pudding & mead glazed cerrets

Third Remove
St. Michaelmas Pye - one lucky recipient will receive a ring & surely will be wed!

Notes
The cost of £39.50 includes:

• mead reception
• gastronomic feast
• live entertainment
• one bottle of fine wine, or
• 3 large bottles of ale each
• dressing in medieval costume is optional but encouraged
• there is one large convivial table for all

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