SC - Sotelty question-Pirates!

[Robyn Probert]

At 16:16 19/11/1998 -0800, Kat wrote:

>Someone here was telling about the making of an edible "book" made with
leaves of phyllo... is that person still on the list, and if so would he or
she be so kind as to outline the procedure?  I'd love to try something like
that... maybe as a ship's log?

That was me! I made the boards (covers) out of sweet biscout (cookie) dough
(sweet shortcrust would work too), then partially baked them and gilded the
edges using an eggwhite glair. The pages were 1/2 sheets of phyllo - a whole
box worth - 'bound' with eggwhite and separated with a dusting of ground
almond, cinnamon, sugar and lemon zest. The top pages were strengthened by
sticking 2 pages together with eggwhite, then I calligraphed and illuminated
them using professional food colouring (fabulous vivid colours!) and gold
leaf, assembled the pages into the boards (more eggwhite) and baked the lot
until golden. It looked great and tasted good too.

Certainly adaptable to a ships log... You could even illuminate a nice map
showing compass bearings, the four winds and 'here be dragons'...

Rowan


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