sca-cooks Transport of Foodstuffs

[gypsy1]

  I watched an interesting show on Marzipan and all the wonderful things
  you can do with it (like a basket full of marzipan fruits - you couldn't
  tell the difference!) anyone have any experience in working with it? I
  may try my hand at a few marzipan carrots and maybe some Marzipan Men
  (like Gingerbread Men) but if there is anything I need to know about
  working with this material, I'm always looking to learn something new...

It is fun.  If you make your own, grind the almonds super-fine, and remember
that modern recipes for marzipan call for ingredients that don't seem to
have been used back then.  And that modern confectioners sugar has
cornstarch.

At a feast some years ago, when a close friend was being made a Laurel, the
Queen had announced that she loathed carrots.  Carrots being on the menu, my
friend Franchesca had made a soteltie of carrots made of marzipan.  Hoping
to impress the Queen.

My wife had made a soteltie too: a model of the Thrones of the East, with
the Monarchs seated on them, and our friend Aquel receiving his Laurel:  All
of them wearing the same clothes they actually wore that day.  It was
presented with a fanfare, an announcement, and was paraded around the hall
before the statues were presented to High Table.  Just before the carrots.

Sigh.  Francesca said "pooh".

	Tibor