[Sca-cooks] gum-dragon?

[johnna holloway]

GUM TRAGACANTH runs upwards of 30.00 a pound
and can be bought mail-order through
cake decorating stores and catalogues
or on-line at Beryls
http://beryls.safeshopper.com/index.htm?235

You may want to check out
Stefan's Florilegium's sugar-paste-msg files
at http://www.florilegium.org/
under Sweet or decorated foods
or
see this article
SUGAR PASTE: A Cook's "Play Dough"
By Elise Fleming (HRH Alys Katharine)
at http://www.netcolony.com/arts/mkcooks/sugarpasteacooksplaydough.html
She talks extensively about the uses
of the various gums and what products we can
now use to replicate them.

Hope this helps..

Johnna Holloway   Johnnae llyn Lewis




Mary Denise Smith wrote:
> Gum tragacanth. A thickener, used like "Fray Check" on the edges of
> fabric, and to make puckered scars on your face for Halloween.>
> MD/Marged