[Sca-cooks] castelletes

[Elaine Koogler]

Yes, I'd love a copy!

Kiri

"Mark.S Harris" wrote:

> Maire said:
> > Elizabeth/Betty Cook wrote:
> > > Do you know how they made the pastry for the castelletes? The minimal
> > > experimenting I did with this a while back resulted in towers that
> > > collapsed.
>
> > I've never made the stuff, myself, Mistress, but I know of at least one
> > person in our kingdom who has, and she's on this list (Hi, Constance
> > <g>).  She did this really nifty (and tasty) subtlety for our Kingdom
> > A&S Competition the year she won.  It was a pastry castle with different
> > goodies (sauces, I seem to recall) in the towers.  The pastry was
> > sturdy, but quite edible.  Heck, she even hand-ground the flour to
> > approximate medieval flour texture.
> > I know she's got documentation for it--don't know if if was one of the
> > files she donated to the Florilegium, but this note should smoke her out
> > of lurk-mode, and you could probably ask her for a copy directly....
>
> Yes, Constance has submitted this documentation to me. When I have time
> I will be adding that one to the Florilegium as an article. I also have
> several more of hers to add. Unlike the usual text messages, Constance
> uses things like italics and bold in her documents which takes me more
> time to work around yet still keep a reasonable appearance. Using Word
> to generate the HTML, even though it will handle such things like
> italics and bold attributes often results in real ugly and often
> inconsistant formating. So I fret over it and do other things. :-(
>
> I can however, send a copy of the documentation in the original
> format to any who might be interested.
>
> Stefan li Rous
> stefan at texas.net
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Elaine Koogler

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