[Sca-cooks] marzipan madness
Stefan li Rous
StefanliRous at austin.rr.com
Sun Dec 14 21:10:16 PST 2003
Cailte moaned:
> i am either goddess or the village idiot... no one even touched my
> marzipan creations for al-Barran midwinter (Outlands).
>
> last i heard, the tromp d oil (sp) flemish scroll was intact, and the
> painted treasure map was headed south with my intrepid hubby's knight.
> > sigh< i could not even entice a dear friend who adores marzipan to
> pluck one strawberry!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Apparently your work was toward the goddess side. People are generally
reluctant to "mess up" nice artwork. Although there have been stories
related of some children eating soteltie castles and such even when
told not to. The moral for the latter is to make sure you get your
pictures taken early.
The suggestion for the first problem is to go ahead and slice the
soteltie or even remove and eat a slice. Another is to have a serving
knife and spatula? available. I've seen a lot of cakes and pies at pot
lucks that don't get eaten or get eaten last because no one wants to be
the first to cut into that new cake or there are no serving utensils
easily available.
For your friend you should have cut out the strawberry and presented it
to her. Then any damage has already been done and *you, the artist* did
it, so she could feel comfortable in eating it.
Stefan
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Mark S. Harris Austin, Texas
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