SC - Subtlety Question

[Stefan li Rous]

Kat asked:

>I'll be making a subtlety for an upcoming event.  The theme is Pirates 
>(which we have pleaded/threatened/cajoled the autocrat into revising to 
>Pirates in Period) and my vision for the subtlety was, of course, a huge 
>completely edible treasure chest.  Not exactly original, but...  :-)

>Now, obviously, I'm going to make the chest itself of gingerbread; and I'll 
>need to go buy several pounds of honey for trial runs to build the thing 
>and try to figure out how to get the panels to stick together and actually 
>hold something.

Take a look at this file in the FOOD-SWEETS section of my Florilegium:
gingerbread-msg   (31K) 10/28/97    Medieval gingerbread. Recipes.

>Does anyone have any ideas for the treasure itself?  I've already
contemplated 
>making strings of "pearls" out of either carved almonds, marzipan or hard
candy 
>(I think I'll go with the marzipan; it sounds MUCH easier!) and probably
doing 
>hard-candy "gems" and marzipan or pastry "cameos" and "enamel."

You might get some ideas looking at these files, also in the FOOD-SWEETS section:
sotelties-msg    (105K)  6/30/98    Sotelties and Warners - decorated food.
candy-msg        (109K)  8/31/98    Period candy. Recipes. Candied fruit peels.

>BUT... can anyone come up with an idea for gold coins?  (No, I am *not* 
>going to get those nasty-tasting mostly-wax chocolate coins, bleah.)  Or, 
>failing that, gold or silver ingots?

Perhaps sugar-paste for the coins molded in a bought or made mold? Check this
file:
sugar-paste-msg   (62K)  7/16/98    Making sugar paste sotelties.

Stefan li Rous
stefan at texas.net
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