Potluck food

This is a list of foods that can often be gotten from your local shops, and don't generally require cooking, suitable for potluck feasts. If you feel like cooking, see period recepies.

• period Fruits
  • apple
  • orange
  • grapes
  • strawberries
  • many more less common varieties listed under fruit
• Dried fruits and nuts
  • almost any fruit was dried (apple, pear, sultanas, dates, figs,...)
  • Most nuts (almond, walnut, hazelnut, chestnut, pistachio) except peanuts, cashew are period
• cheese
• pies
  • fruit pies (yes look in that supermarket freezer for apple, pear, apricot or berry pies), but please defrost them on a cold day. A period example: Pear_tart_(recipe)
  • quiche - there is a kind of period tart - eg Ember_Day_Tart(recipe) much like a quiche, although more heavily spiced. Try for a plain quiche without tomatoe in it please.
  • large meat pies, preferably with added other ingedients (not potato), eg a period pie with meat and berries Caneline_Beef_Pie(recipe)
• bread (remember the autocrat often supplies some too)
• roast chicken - hot or cold (but be careful of food safety
• cut cold meats
• some dips
  • hommus
  • chives and onion???
• salad - was made up of herbs and general leaffy stuff, including flowers and sometimes chopped fruit. Salad mix may not be a bad approximation to some period salads.
• sweet buns eg glazed sultana buns (I think)
• almond cake (look at the gormet italian coffee cakes in the supermarket)
• shortbread
• Angel's food - a sweet dip that goes well with italian or shortbread style biscuits, for dip see: Angels_food_(recipe)

See also:

• Food