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[Ann Sasahara]

pat fee wrote:

>   Your idea is wonderful.  Could you please ask the kind and wonderful
> Laurel to please, please share the infomation as to where you can buy the
> pre cut eggs? I feel a Easter feast cumming on.
>
>   Lady Katherine McGuire

I asked & the reply was:
"A lot of craft stores now do them, as people are quite into making fake fab
eggs.  Check the yellow pages under the Craft section and you will probable find
a couple of places that specialize."

Lorix

>
>
> >From: Lorix <lorix at trump.net.au>
> >Reply-To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
> >To: "sca-cooks at Ansteorra.ORG" <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
> >Subject: SC - Sharing My (albeit temporary) moment of Brilliance
> >Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2000 13:51:39 +1100
> >
> >Well, some of you may remember my heartfelt plea
> >of a way of serving chocolate in a discrete
> >manner.  Ie When your landed royalty decide you
> >will serve chocolate at a feast (and not the Aztec
> >variety), how do you do it discretely.
> >
> >Well, I received many suggestions and the one I
> >liked best was a suggestion of poring the
> >chocolate into a blown egg-shell.  Now this idea
> >tied in well with a subtltie I was going to use.
> >Alas, in practice (well with me doing it anyway) .
> >. . it was not a success - the least said here the
> >better. <think melted warm gooey chocolate
> >exploding backwards from the syringe/egg because I
> >forgot to think of 'airhole' issues.  Do you
> >realise how much of a SPREAD that stuff has?>
> >
> >So I pondered again (cause I really wanted to tie
> >it in with the egg idea) and at some ungodly hour
> >the other morning a solution presented itself.  If
> >I got little chocolate easter eggs & placed them
> >in the 'fake faberge egg' design, I would have
> >achieved my desire.
> >
> >For those who are wondering about 'fake faberge
> >eggs', basically they come hinged or joined.  With
> >the joined variety basically you place your 'gift'
> >inside egg shells, glue them back together.  Paint
> >shell in nice colours and put braid around the
> >join - that is if you are me.  If you are a
> >laurelly type person, you put a hinge on the
> >contraption, line the inside with silk or satin,
> >bedeck it with drapes of pearls & delicate braids
> >and so forth.
> >
> >Problem 1:  Now I had only seen the final results
> >of these beauties, I had never made them.  While I
> >was pondering on the technical aspects of putting
> >said eggs together, a friendly laurel (who will be
> >wayfaring to my feast) asked me whether there was
> >anything she could do.  <think evil laughter
> >here>  Initially, I asked for advice on the making
> >of the eggs & it turned out that not only did she
> >know How to make them, but offered to make some
> >for me.
> >
> >I tentatively broached what I wanted with a modest
> >proposed number of said eggs.  She not only
> >acquiesced in the making thereof, but chastised me
> >as she thought the number far too low (oh there
> >really should be more laurels like that about,
> >they really don't grow on trees ya know ;-)
> >Sometimes the life of an event steward is really
> >good!
> >
> >Now for all those who have read this far and are
> >trying to work out how you cut the egg shells
> >evenly & get the darn things back together:  I
> >will impart the tidbit that my laurelly friend
> >advised me.  Apparently, you can buy pre-cut egg
> >shells in a variety of sizes and because they are
> >neatly pre-cut the fit together 'eggcellently' (I
> >couldn't help myself here).
> >
> >Well for those who asked for a report on the final
> >result (and probably now regret the request) here
> >'tis!
> >
> >Lorix
> >
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