Spring Camp (Labour Weekend)
BOOKINGS FOR THIS EVENT ARE NOW CLOSED
Come and join us at Braythwayte Manor on the northern shores of Lake Rotorua for up to 3 days from your favourite century over Labour Weekend from Friday 24th (4pm) to Monday 27th October.
This is a relaxed 'Living History' encampment with no set timetable. Each day starts with sunrise and ends when you decide it should with breakfast, lunch and dinner somewhere in between.
Bring your A&S projects, swords, armour, bows, instruments and games and enjoy the company of other like-minded folk.
Pricing:
| Full Event | Full Event | Up to 48hrs | Up to 48hrs | Up to 24 hrs | Up to 24 hrs | |
| Meal plan | Self-catering | Meal plan | Self-catering | Meal plan | Self-catering | |
| Adult (SCA member) 16yrs + | 120 | 30 | 80 | 20 | 40 | 10 |
| Adult (Non-member) 16yrs+ | 125 | 35 | 85 | 25 | 45 | 15 |
| Child 5 to 15yrs | 60 | 21 | 40 | 14 | 20 | 7 |
| Infant under 5yrs | Free | Free | Free | Free | Free | Free |
Food:
In keeping with the living history theme, all food will be prepared in the medieval kitchen and cooked over the open fire or baked in the wood-fired bread oven. The event is fully catered with delicious cooked breakfasts, generous lunches with freshly baked bread and a cooked evening meal. Hot and cold drinks and snacks are also included.
The meal plan will cater for vegetarian, dairy-free and gluten-free diets. There is also a self-cater option for those who have dietary needs that are not met by the meal plan.
Draft menu and ingredients: This is included here as a draft for planning purposes only. There will likely be minor changes/substitutions at the event.
| Ingredient lists | |||||||
| Friday eve: | Light supper (not a main meal) | Saturday Dinner | Sunday Dinner | ||||
| Bread rolls or GF Bread | Salat (Cold Salad) | Parsely, Sage, Spring onions | Vegetable Broth | Soybeans, chestnuts | |||
| Butter | lettuce, violets, onion, leek, | Dried mushroom, spring onion | |||||
| GF Beef or Pork Sausages | fennel, rosemary, rue | Red dates, ginger, salt, | |||||
| Vegetarian Sausages | White pepper, water | ||||||
| Green salad | Wortes (Hot veg) | Spinach, onion, cabbage | |||||
| Fried onioin | beet greens, leeks, parsley | Braised tofu & egg | Tofu, lotus root, | ||||
| Cheese (Colby, Brie) | Butter | Dried mushroom, egg | |||||
| GF Crackers | |||||||
| Nuts (Various) | Pasrty for pies: | Flour, eggs, butter saffron | Green Stirfry | Snow peas, spring onion | |||
| Dried fruit (various) | (tbc. Maybe GF) | veg stock, salt, garlic, | |||||
| Apples, oranges | dark and light soy | ||||||
| Fillings for Pies: | Bok Choy | ||||||
| Breakfasts | Sat, Sun and Mon | Apple Pie | Apples, pears, raisins, figs | ||||
| Porridge (made with water, not milk) + brown sugar or Honey | sugar, saffron, cinnamon, | Beef broth | Beef bones, spring onion | ||||
| Home cured bacon (Pork belly, salt, sugar, juniper berries) | ginger, nutmeg, cardamom | ginger, carrot, cinnamon, | |||||
| Eggs (Free range) fried in butter or olive oli | cloves | Bay leaf, star anise | |||||
| Portabello mushooms (Fried in olive oil and butter) DF available | |||||||
| Bread (GF available) | Strawberry Pie | Strawberries, egg yolks, | Braised beef | onion, ginger, garlic, daikon, | |||
| Bread (GF available) + butter or Olivini | breadcumbs, sugar, butter. | mushrooms, light & dark soy, | |||||
| Vegetarian Sausages | rock sugar, wine, bean sauce, | ||||||
| Ember Tart (Egg) | Eggs, onioin, cheese, currants | douchi, cinnamon, star anise, | |||||
| Lunches | Sat, Sun (Monday lunch will be all the left-overs) | sugar, parsley, sage, hyssop | Ginger, orange peel, bay, | ||||
| Salad (Lettuces, rocket, radish, spring onion) | ginger, cinnamon, cloves | fennel, cloves | |||||
| Cucumber | nutmeg | ||||||
| Pickles (Gherkins, pickles onions) | Mushy peas | Dried peas, veg stock, water | |||||
| Fruit (Apples, oranges) + Nuts and dried fruit | Bokenade (Meat stew) | ||||||
| Salami (venison) | Beef, parsely,sage, hyssop, | Three finger salad | Vinegar (Contains Gluten!!) | ||||
| Ham | mace, cloves, egg yolk, ginger, | Daikon, carrot, cucumber, | |||||
| Cheeses (various) | salt, saffron, verjuice | garlic | |||||
| Smoked fish | |||||||
| Bread and butter | Chicken Stew | Chicken, rosemary, thyme, | Cucumber salad | cucumber, balsamic vinegar, | |||
| breadcumbs, wine, raisins, | rice vinegar, garlic, sesame oil, | ||||||
| prunes, vinegar | sesame seeds | ||||||
| Soy Braised eggs | Eggs, brine | ||||||
| Toppings | Pao Cai picked veg | ||||||
| Pickled mustard greens | |||||||
| sesame seeds, coriander | |||||||
| spring onions, sichuan pepper oil | |||||||
| chilli oil. | |||||||
Chores List (Chronological): People in BOLD are in charge of that chore.
| Supper cook | Ed | Angele | Llewelyn | ||
| Supper Wash up | Christopher | Florence | Alice | ||
| Torches + Lighting | Bess | Domenego | |||
| Breakfast prep | Ed | Eleanor Hall | James of SG | Alice | |
| Breakfast wash up | Tory | Winifred | Trudie | Tristan | |
| Lunch Prep | Aethelred | Etain | Fiona | Mathilde | Emeline |
| Lunch Prep | Daniel or Lori | Elizabeth of Elmslac | Nancy | ||
| Lunch wash up | Laurie | Melani | Sympkyn | Cecilia | |
| Dinner prep/cook | Rosalind | Jane | William | Revna | Viktoria |
| Dinner prep/cook | Anthony | Leo | Rhys | Isobel | |
| Dinner wash up | Azalais | Kjartan | Sarah | ||
| Torches | Gerard | Steph | |||
| Fire Maintenance | Maerwynn | Christopher | |||
| Breakfast prep | Inigo | Eleanor Hall | Yasuda | Ben | |
| Breakfast wash up | Florence | Jaymes | Johannes | Aliesha | |
| Lunch Prep | Aethelred | Sithech | Elyna | Jane | Azalais |
| Lunch Prep | Cecilia | Tristan | Jessica | ||
| Lunch wash up | Nancy | Ethan | Domenego | Steph | |
| Dinner prep/cook | Rose | Mary | Angele | Llewelyn | Elizabeth of Elmslac |
| Dinner prep/cook | Viktoria | James B | Mathilde | Maerwynn | |
| Dinner wash up | Emeline | Friedrich-Leonard | Tory | Melani | |
| Torches | Simone | Anthony | |||
| Fire Maintenance | Trudie | Soni | |||
| Breakfast prep | Inigo | James of SG | Yasuda | Ben | |
| Breakfast wash up | Glenn | Don | Mary | Rhys | |
| Lunch Prep | Leo | Geffrey | Gareth | Johannes | Kjartan |
| Lunch wash up | Sithech | Winifred | Etain | ||
| Bakery | Melissa | Nate | Abigail | ||
| Fire Maintenance | |||||
| Coffee House | Gurman | Fiora | Soni (reliever) |