SC - Aoife's Bull

[Elise Fleming]

Greetings!  Aoife wrote:

>Aoife---who is making a life-sized bull calf soteltie this weekend 
>modelled on the pillar capitals of the Ancient Persian 100-pillar 
>hall, for our new Zaroastrian Baron's investiture next weekend. But 
>he's too cute, I may have to keep him. I had thought of a Persian 
>Miniature (scenes painted in miniature) with a short-bread tablet-type 
>base and the picture cut out of colored fruit leathers and assembled 
>like a collage. I wonder if I still have time for that? Tempus fugit, 
>y'know.

Gee... Sugar paste makes great "concrete" and pillars!  Roll out some 
slabs, let them dry, fasten together and paint on it with food paste 
colors so it looks just the way the columns would have...  And you can 
break them after serving them!

Alys Katharine...Never enough sugar paste in the world


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