SC - Re- woad OT

[Marisa Herzog]

Greetings!  Crystal of the Westermark wrote:

>There are instructions for distilling in Curye on Inglysch, I think 
>some cooks would have made brandy to produce the famous fire breathing
>subitiles.

I haven't seen brandy listed as needed for making things flame.  
Camphor is what the period cookery books call for.  Cotton or other 
flammable things are soaked in camphor and then set alight to produce a 
dragon's flame (St. George's dragon, not SCA fantasy), etc.

Alys Katharine

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