[Sca-cooks] beast feasts

[Daniel Myers]

On Saturday, July 13, 2002, at 04:02 AM, Mark S. Harris wrote:
> Generys commented:
>> and thinking, hmm, that will be pink.  Pigs are
>> pink... So, what I was thinking is that I could make the "body" of the
>> pig
>> out of the strawberry snow stuff, and then make a head and legs and
>> such out
>> of either bread of some sort, or marzipan (though I'm not the marzipan
>> expert that m'lady Olwen is), or something like that.  I was hoping to
>> get
>> some feedback on the idea - I'm trying to get to something that's,
>> while
>> probably not period, at least "perioid" in feel, and *unique*.
>
> The "snow" that I've made is closer to whipped cream. You couldn;t
> form such a shape out of it.

The time I made it (when it wasn't incredibly hot and humid) the "snow"
had a thick, cool-whippish consistency.  It could be sculpted, but I
suspect it wouldn't hold its shape for more than 15-20 minutes.


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