Spring Camp (Labour Weekend)
Bookings (and payments) close on Saturday 11th October!
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.
Booking Form Here:
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. | |||||||