SC - Re: How do you make the fruit and flowers from "Vatel"?

[Craig Jones.]

Canwe order this book after festival and have a play?

Cj.


>Huette asked about a book on blown sugar.  There is a good, step-by-step one
>by Peter Boyle, _Sugar Work_, Blown- and Pulled-Sugar Techniques, Van
>Nostrand Reinhold, 1992, ISBN 0-442-20994-0 in hardback and 0-442-01359-7 in
>paperback (which I have).  It has color prints of goblets, fruits and
>flowers made of blown/pulled sugar.
>
>'Twas mentioned by Richenza in Boston that it might be late period.  I think
>so, also.  Seems to me in one of the books I have there is a reference to
>something from Italy.  I would not expect it to have gotten out of Italy
>during period, although there were cast fruits in molds.  Maybe Richenza
>would go to the KW A&S Symposium in An Tir and teach it??  I suppose the
>humidity of Pennsic wouldn't allow for a class...
>
>Alys Katharine
>
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