Evening court and feast...

The evening court started at 5:00pm with King Stephen and Queen Ailleanne marching in mist thier Royal Guard and court attendants to ascend the thrones. The Prince of Midrealm was next announced to come into court and he was seated on the right hand of the Queeen. His pages brought in cookies to give to the populous and the court as gifts from Midrealm. Many gifts were given to the new Queen and King from others of the realm as they in turn gave out awards of service. The King stood up and began to talk about the growing reputation of the Northshield army in the Pennsic wars over the past couple of years. Even though our forces are small our renown was growing for their courage and great bravery on the battle field. Others would give up after a couple of charges but our forces did not give up and kept on fighting. Other Kingdoms took notice of this. Recently many have contacted him wanting to form alliances with Northshield and so negotiations have begun. He turned to the Prince of Midrealm agreeing to an alliance with Midrealm in the upcoming Pennsic Wars. There was great rejoicing in this announcement as the King and Prince hugged to seal the alliance. New banners and flags were given to the King and Queen and shown off for all their beauty. Court was dismissed and the Court left the hall admist drum roll.

The feast went beyond my expectations. The tables were set up in a U shape with the Royals at the bottom of the U. They were served first. There was a food contest with 13 entries. The Royals were given each entry and voted with peas in a dish. Each table had the chance to sample a couple of the entries. Besides this there was the main feast menu which was served in courses. This included : sallet of all kindes of hearbes, pudding in a turnep, cheese buns, rice casserole, roasted chikins, smoked pork, leibkuken, spanish pastries, and custard. There were six sauces placed on the table first to use as you saw fit. They were honey mustard, French mustard, green sauce, good French sauce, cinnamon of must, and a thin sauce for roasted fowl.
There was a sheet on the table listing the ingredients of each dish, sauce, and contest entry.
Needless to say we did not leave the table hungry! It was a very good day we had at the cornation.