SC - Re: Purple fleur de lys

[Elise Fleming]

'Twas written:

> Could you color the cookie with something (ie not icing, but a 
>colored cookie) to make purple?

A sort of curmudgeonly question... Why bother to make something, which 
is not a period food, out of period ingredients?  One could, far more 
easlily, use purple food coloring to color the cookie, or make the 
shortbread and put purple icing on it and present it as an SCA gift.  
We all live with (and usually enjoy!) SCA "anachronisms" when they are 
admitted as such and fall within the scope of "fun" rather than 
"re-creation".  Receiving one's Laurel is an SCA-ism, not a re-creation 
of a period activity.  Make a basket of purple fleur-de-lys.  Make a 
shortbread laurel wreath of cookies to pull apart by the visitors.  
Make a large sheet cookie with rice paper in the middle and pen (in 
edible coloring/pen) the Laurel oath, or her scroll wording.  Make an 
edible box with purple fleur de lys inside, or attached to the sides as 
decoration...

Alys Katharine
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