SC - Aoife's bull

[Mark.S Harris]

Mercedes asked:
> Wasn't it someone on this list who made a large bull subtletie that bled
> wine when stabbed in the throat and, ahem, dispensed fudge cookies when the
> tail was lifted?????

I assume you are talking about Aoife's bull soteltie.

The entire story is probably too long to quote here, but there are at
least two long messages on this in this file in the FOOD-SWEETS
section of the Florilegium:
sotelties-msg    (199K) 11/ 1/00    Sotelties and Warners - decorated
food.

Here is a paragraph from one of the messages:
> Last came the bull, at the end of the feast. I was unaware of a fortuitous
> legend from the Zaroestrian religion, wherein the God Mithras wounds a
> celestial bull, and the blood spilled became all of creation. This made the
> soteltie more appropriate than I could have hoped, given that our new
> Baron's (my brother) device was a Bull. Two stalwort fellows carried out the
> table bearing the bull. Khasar announced the last soteltie which "wasn't
> subtle at all. In fact, it could be downright offensive". Naturally that got
> them all crowding around. I explained the originals the bull was based on,
> and had the good Baron Tigranes recieve the first cup of wine when the
> corking arrowhead was removed. And then I began to explain about how we had,
> like all groups going barony, gone through some rough times, with a lot of
> BS. I was leading up to opening the trap door in the rear so that the
> chocolate cookies could fall out. But my 8-year old (who had been keeping
> the secret for 2 weeks) joyously shouted "And he POOPS cookies". So I simply
> explained that even the BS in Endless Hills was delightful and let the
> cookies fly. Gratifyingly, the first cookie went flying out and rolled
> across the floor. I had to "help" the rest, a substantial paylod, but no one
> seemed to mind. It was a big hit, got lots of laughs, and folks really
> enjoyed their "bulls blood and BS for dessert." I had to donate the wine,
> since the SCA money cannot buy alcohol for drinking purposes, which I was
> happy to do.

Stefan li Rous
stefan at texas.net