SC - Eggs graven with Vinegar

[Stefan li Rous]

Magdalena posted:
> Hugh Plat
> _The Jewel-house of Art & Nature_  1594
> 
> 32.  How to grave any armes, posies, or other devise
> upon an egg shel, & how to through-cut the same, with
> divers works & fancies, which will seem very strange to
> such as know not the maner of the doing thereof.

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Thank you.

> This brings up a question for me.  How close was period
> vinegar to the stuff I buy at the store?  

Perhaps some of the comments in this file in the FOOD section of
the Florilegium might help with your question:
vinegar-msg       (32K)  1/25/00    Vinegar in period. Making vinegar.
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Lord Stefan li Rous    Barony of Bryn Gwlad    Kingdom of Ansteorra
Mark S. Harris             Austin, Texas           stefan at texas.net
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