[Sca-cooks] Royal Sugar Sculpture

[johnna holloway]

While browsing through another of those British sugarcraft
magazines at the Books to Cooks bookstore in Vancouver, I came across
mention of the following exhibition. There are 82 images that are online
at the museum's website, so everyone can look and drool, even if we
can't fly over in person.

Johnnae llyn Lewis   Johnna Holloway

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Royal Sugar Sculpture
Saturday 1st June until Sunday 22nd September

  Historical and Contemporary. Examples of 16th, 17th and 18th century
sugarpaste sculpture and table settings. Using a unique set of moulds by
Ivan Day and Peter Brears, that are being bought by the Museum, there is
a recreation of an early nineteenth century ceremonial table setting.
The very best of modern sugarcraft is also on display.

You can find it under the WHAT'S ON August section at:
http://www.bowesmuseum.org.uk/index.html


Or click on:
http://www.bowesmuseum.org.uk/whatson/browse.php3?month=August&monthnum=200208

The press release is at:
http://www.bowesmuseum.org.uk/whatson/press_sc.htm

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OF Special Note--

The Coronation of Henry VI
The coronation feast in Westminster Hall on November 6th 1429 was one of
the most colourful of medieval English court entertainments. and

A Gift of Sugar for Elizabeth I
Sugar models of St. Pauls Cathedral appear to have become a Tudor
tradition. In 1562, the surveyor of the cathedral presented Queen
Elizabeth with a four-foot high example. By Queen Elizabeth's reign,
elaborate sugar work and conceits tended to appear after the meal had
been consumed and accompanied with a host of other sweet foods.