September, 2019 Volume 31, Issue 1, AS LIV redgingsthe Being the Voice of the Barony of Lochmere in the Kingdom of Atlantia, SCA, Inc. Inside this issue New Member Information ................ 2 Lochmere Calendar of Events ........... 2 Information on the Dredgings ........... 2 Attention Lochmere Officers ............. 2 B&B Corner ........................................ 3 Lochmere Baronial Progress ............. 3 Baronial Reoccurring Activities ......... 3 This Month in History ........................ 3 Mistress Lisette’s Kitchen .................. 4 Populace Meeting Minutes ............... 5 Photos from Pennsic ......................... 5 History Highlights .............................. 6 Bards of Olde .................................... 7 Battle on the Bay .............................. 9 Lochmere Officers Listing .................. 10 Lochmere Baronial Champions ......... 10 New Member Information If you are new to the Barony of Official SCA Homepage: Lochmere, these websites should be http://www.sca.org of interest to you: The Acorn, Atlantia’s Official News- Information on the Dredgings Barony of Lochmere Homepage: letter: http:// http:// www.acorn.atlantia.sca.org The Dredgings is a publication of the www.lochmere.atlantia.sca.org Barony of Lochmere of the Society of Creative Anachronism, Inc. The Atlantia Event Calendar: http:// Dredgings is a free publication and is Barony of Lochmere Facebook www.acorn.atlantia.sca.org/ available electronically. You may Group: https://www.facebook.com/ calendar.htm request a copy from the Barony of groups/LochmereSCA/ Lochmere Chronicler at [email protected]. You can also contact the Barony This newsletter is not a corporate Kingdom of Atlantia Homepage: Chatelain: chate- publication of the Society of Creative http://www.atlantia.sca.org [email protected] Anachronism, Inc., and does not delineate SCA policies. © 2019, Society of Creative Anachronism, Inc. For information on reprinting letter and artwork from this publication, please contact the Barony of The September meeting took place on August 27, 2019 and there Lochmere Chronicler at [email protected], who was no August meeting due to Pennsic. will assist you in contacting the original creator of the piece. Please respect the legal rights of the contributors. Attention Lochmere Officers Lochmere Calendar of Events Make sure your information in this Tuesday September 3—Fighter Practice and A&S newsletter and website is correct. Thursday September 5—Archery & Thrown Weapons Practice Contact Lady Katla Flokadottir at [email protected] Tuesday September 10—Fighter Practice and A&S for The Dredgings and Lady Marta De Lyon Thursday September 12—Archery & Thrown Weapons Practice at [email protected] Tuesday September 17—Fighter Practice and A&S for the website. Please submit your Baronial Report in Thursday September 19—Archery & Thrown Weapons Practice advance of the business meeting via Tuesday September 24—Fighter Practice and A&S email to Sir Aelfred of Cres at Thursday September 26—Archery & Thrown Weapons Practice [email protected] and the Chronicler, Lady Katla at [email protected]. Atlantia Calendar of Events Thank You! Friday—Sunday, Sept. 6-8—Battle on the Bay in the Tyrrhenian Sea—Barony of Lochmere Front Cover Friday—Sunday, September 6-8—Blades & Bows 5th Ed—Canton of Brockore Abbey Top: Ursus Sat., Sept. 7—Festival of Elvagast - The Wedding of Isabella & Oratio—Canton of Elvegast Bottom: Brian De Moray Friday—Sunday, Sept. 13-15—Rip Rap War III: Guts, Gold, Glory—Barony of Marinus Friday—Sunday, Sept. 13-15—Sacred Stone Baronial Birthday—Barony of Sacred Stone Saturday, September 14—Royal Archery Tournament—Barony of Bright Hills Saturday, September 21—Stierbach Baronial Birthday Celebration—Barony of Stierbach Saturday, September 21—Fall University—Barony of Hawkwood Friday—Sunday, Sept. 27-29—Harvest Wars—Barony of Bright Hills 2 Friday—Sunday, Sept. 27-29—Border Skirmishes—Canton of Cydllan Downs Saturday—Sunday, Sept. 28-29—Clash with Bacchus—Barony of Black Diamond Baronial Reoccurring Activities B&B Corner Populace Meeting First Monday of every month 7:15 pm To the Barony of Lochmere your Baron and Baroness sends their warmest greetings, 1325 Annapolis Road Odenton, MD 21113 Pennsic is over and our thoughts turn to the fall, where the weather will start to cool Fighter Practice (Heavy & Rapier) off but the comings and goings of our Barony will be quite busy. Every Tuesday 7:00 pm Severn Christian Church Battle on the Bay will be a great event - our autocrat, Baron Gabrell, has been 8132 New Cut Road , Severn, MD 21144 diligently working on making BotB a memorable experience! We are eagerly anticipating and welcome hosting both Their Royal Majesties and Their Royal Archery Practice Highnesses. Every Thursday (til time change) Lord Ivan’s Home 511 Chad Avenue, Severn, MD 21144 As a reminder - Sarra and I are always looking for award recommendations. We want to be sure the Populace of Lochmere are properly recognized for their efforts to our Equestrian Practice 10:00 am till? Barony, the Kingdom, and the Society. Send them via email to Meeting and potluck follows either [email protected] or [email protected] 2361 Rutland Rd , Davidsonville, MD 21035 Thank you all for what you do! Lochmere Vocal and Music Group Cormacc and Sarra Please contact Sir Aelfred of Cres [email protected] Baron and Baroness, Lochmere Arts and Sciences Lady Anne d’Evreux [email protected] This Month in History Lochmere Baronial Progress September 1: 891 Northmen defeated near Louvaine, France 1067 Baldwin VI becomes Count of Flanders Battle on the Bay War of the Wings 1181 Ubaldo Allucingoli replaces Alexander III as Pope Lucius III Sept. 7, 2019 October 17-20, 2019 1255 Königsberg founded by Teutonic Knights & named in honor of Bohemian King Ottokar II Barony of Lochmere, Kingdom of Atlantia, 1267 Rabbi Moses Ben Nachman establishes a Upper Marlboro, MD Booneville, NC Jewish community in Jerusalem 1355 Tvrtko I writes in Castro Nostro Vizoka Hospitality needed Fall Crown Tounament Vocatum from old town Visoki Rip Rap War III: Guts, Gold, Glory Nov. 1-3, 2019 1482 Tatars plunder Kiev, Ukraine 1511 Conciliabulum of Pisa opens Sept. 14, 2019 Hidden Mountain, 1535 French navigator Jacques Cartier reaches Barony of Marinus, Bennettsville, SC Hochelaga 1547 Charles demands creation of Imperial League Courtland, VA Red Mountain Mead Hall 1598 Spanish king Philip II receives sacraments September 2: Oct. 17-20, 2019 (Baron only) 911 Viking-monarch Oleg of Kiev-Russia signs Stierbach Baronial -B day Shire of Isenfir, treaty with Byzantines 1192 Sultan Saladin & King Richard the Lion- Sept. 21, 2019 Charlottesville, VA heart of England sign treaty over Jerusalem Barony of Stierbach, 1519 1st Battle of Tehuacingo, San Salvador vs Mexico Dun Carraig Baronial B-day 1537 King Christian III publishes "Ordinance on Spotsylvania, VA Nov. 9, 2019 (Baroness Only) the Danish Church" Hospitality needed Barony of Dun Carraig , Waldorf , MD Fall Coronation Holiday Faire October 4-6, 2019 Nov. 23, 2019 Barony of Storvik, Barony of Stierbach, Upper Marlboro, MD Manassas, VA Hospitality needed Hospitality not needed If you are interested in retaining for Their Excellencies, please contact Duchess Simone at [email protected]. 3 Mistress Lisette’s Kitchen References 1. The Food Chronology by James Trager 2. The Oxford Companion to Food by A. Davidson 3. Herbs & Spices – the cook’s reference by J. Norman Floor mosaic depicting birds, fish and fruit basket. Opus vermiculatum, Roman artwork of the end of For More Information the 1st century BCE/begin of the 1st century CE. Cooking and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius 14 CE: Roman gastronome Marcus Gavius Apicus, creator of Culinary Matters (De Re Coquinaria or De Re Culinaria) the world's first known book of recipes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lovage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garum Within the book is a recipe to make a “Sauce for all kinds of game, boiled or roast (ius in venationibus omnibus elixis et assis): eight scruples of pepper, http://penelope.uchicago.edu/ rue, lovage, celery seed, juniper, thyme, dry mint: six scruples in weight ~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/wine/ garum.html [each], three scruples of flea-bane; reduce all this to the finest powder, put it together in a vessel with sufficient honey and use it with vinegar and garum.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Marcus_Gavius_Apicius Lovage is a tall perennial plant, resembling wild celery, Scruple but is more pungent with musky overtones. It was used similar to celery but it has a much milder and sweeter Fleabane taste. It is distinctly warm and has a spicy fragrance.2 The parts that can be used include the leaves, stalks, roots, and Images Used seeds.3 It was popular as a flavoring herb in classical Greek https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ and Roman times and continued to be a medicinal herb Lovage#/media/File:Liebst%C3% B6ckel.JPG found in most medieval gardens. The leaves were also used to flavor cordials 2 while the stalks were cooked like celery. https://upload.wikimedia.org/ wikipedia/commons/e/ Flea-bane is an herb derived from a perennial plant e8/0_Mosaico_pavimentale_%E2% 80%93_Grotte_Celloni_%E2%80% native to most parts of Europe. It has a soft, hoary 93_Pal._Massimo.JPG foliage with flat heads of one, two, or three bright yellow flowers about an inch across. Flea-bane is an https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ astringent with a slightly soapy smell and an extremely Pulicaria_dysenterica#/media/ File:Pulicaria_dysenterica_compresse bitter taste. Its young leaves were used in Roman summer d.JPG salads. Modern cooks often substitute it with rosemary when trying to reproduce ancient recipes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Garum#/media/ File:Garum_Mosaik_Pompeji.JPG Garum is a fermented fish sauce that Romans used as a condiment. You can find more information, as well as a recipe for “quick” garum here: https://coquinaria.nl/en/ 4 roman-fish-sauce/. Populace Meeting Minutes This Month in History, continued..