SC - IT'S A YES!!!!

[Laura C. Minnick]

Aoife skrev:

>I need a mold to bake gingerbread in (the hard cookie renaissance Italian
>sort, not the cake or early period sort w/breadcrumbs), so as to make a
>vessel, and wonder if anyone has baked gingerbread in a carved plaster mold
>before.  I've never used plaster in the oven before, but if I line it with
>foil or grease the plaster, it might work. I think I could get a very high
>level of detail in that manner.

I'd be very careful with that, Aoife. Unless it's very thoroughly dry,
plaster has a tendency to explode when heated. I'd hate to see you having
very detailed impressions of exploding plaster in your oven....

;-)

Phlip

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Philippa Farrour
Caer Frig
Southeastern Ohio

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