SC - I get to cook a feast!

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On Mon, 26 Oct 1998 11:22:17 +0200 Aletta Saayman
<AlettaS at seaharvest.co.za> writes:
>What is a soteltie? A dish showing off your skill? Any examples?

A soteltie (or subtlety)is a dish that creates a pictoral scene.  It can
be a sweet or a savoury. They are often decorated with herbs, candied
flowers, bits of dried fruit, etc. Some examples that I have read
about...

1.  a wedding feast,  England (IIRC about 1400's).  A sculpture of sweet
bread in the shape of the wedding party before the door of the church. 
Specific details include the bride's blonde hair and dress done in
candied flower petals.  Peices baked separately and then assembled with
marchpane and something that sounds like spun sugar.

2.  a wedding feast (German)(no date given).  A savoury bread sculpture
of a rampant goat (one of the figures on the groom's arms) and a doe
dormant (the bride's family). Specific details include the eyes of the
goat and doe made of dried fruit.

Both books were borrowed from a library in California years ago.  I think
one of them was by a Rodney? MacKinnon.  The other one was something
unpronounceable in German.  One of these days I will start taking notes
when I find a good book and keep them!

Caitlin Nicfhionghuin
House Oak and Thistle
Shire of Bordervale Keep, Atlantia
Augusta, GA

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