SC - quenelles again...

[Lorix]

  According to my sources, to combat the "bug" problem "foul smelling herbs, 
such as garlic were ground find and added to the eggs-pigment emulsion".
   How good this would work I have no idea.  But a friend adds boric acid 
crystals to her egg tempora for just this reason.

  Lady Katherine McGuire


>From: Christine A Seelye-King <mermayde at juno.com>
>Reply-To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
>To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
>Subject: Re: SC - Tempera question
>Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 11:12:43 -0400
>
>I also have it on authority of a Laurel friend of mine that cockroaches
>just love to eat egg-based tempera paint.  I wonder what they did in
>period to prevent this?  Perhaps in England this was not a problem, but
>I'd be willing to be it was in the warmer climes.
>Christianna
>
>On Wed, 7 Jun 2000 04:13:54 EDT CBlackwill at aol.com writes:
>  For those interested, it is very period, and was the major paint used
>  for illumination up until the arrival of oil-based paint in the 14th
> > century.
>
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