[Sca-cooks] Olwen's Pennsic Marzipan class

[Mark.S Harris]

Muiredach mac Loloig asked:
> Forgive my ignorance, but why tokens for class?  how does this work?

Okay, my appologies for perhaps being a bit obtuse here. This
originally started out with me trying to make a joke using someones
comments about "Saint" Olwen (for her work with marzipan) crossed with
the fact that one of the things I do is make cast pewter SCA site
tokens in imitation of medieval pilgrim tokens. This was in part
meant as a gentle request for Olwen to do a marzipan class. I would
certainly be interested in attending, as I suspect others would. My
final comment was an offer meant to "sweeten the pot" by offering to
make (attempt?) pilgrim badges for the class out of marzipan. The idea
was that Olwen could do as she wished with these, hand them out as
samples to the students, pass them out as advertisement for the
class, whatever. So, I guess a joke that didn't work. But if it
would get Olwen to teach the class, I would still be willing to
make the tokens.

Stefan li Rous

> Olwen replied to me with:
> > >Come to Olwen's marzipan class at the next Pennsic and get this
> > >genuine, marzipan pilgrim token to prove that you've been there....
> > >--
> > >THLord  Stefan li Rous    Barony of Bryn Gwlad    Kingdom of Ansteorra
> >
> > What??!  Did I sign up to teach a class???  I must have been drunk.
> > Remember my motto:  If I don't remember, I didn't do it!
>
> Well, I don't remember if you did or didn't. But you COULD! And
> I think a lot of us would enjoy it, especially from the Marzipan
> Queen.
>
> If you agree to do this, I will make the tokens. I've never tried
> to work with marzipan before, but I would be willing to try it
> for the tokens for this.
>
> Stefan li Rous