[Sca-cooks] REC: LARDED MILK...BACON

[Philip & Susan Troy]

johnna holloway wrote:
> Speaking of the Larded Milk reminded me that
> somewhere I had seen another "fake" bacon.
> I did find it. Peter Brears shows it in a
> drawing in his article "Rare Conceites and
> Strange Delightes..." in Banquetting Stuff,
> ed. by C. Anne Wilson, 1991.
> The drawing is on p62 and concerns making
> collops of bacon out of marchepane.
>
> Johnnae llyn Lewis Johnna Holloway

Laurel and Hardy, at one point, served an entire meal to studio contract
player bad guy Walter Long, consisting of spaghetti made from a mop and
some red paint, meat balls made from a sponge, and bacon made from a
red-and-white striped lamp wick... I forget the rest, but the
stripey-ness of streaky bacon seems to have captured the imagination in
the Western Hemisphere.

On the other hand, it just occurred to me that kids could have a really
good time with some of those extruding toys made for Play-Doh, and some
marzipan.

Adamantius
--
Phil & Susan Troy

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"It was so blatant that Roger threw at him.  Clemens gets away with
things that get other people thrown out of games.  As long as they
let him get away with it, it's going  to continue." -- Joe Torre, 9/98