[Sca-cooks] suet & vinegar

[Kim]

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  Greetings to the list,

I am new to the list and if you don't mind, I have a some semi food
related questions to ask for Kataryna Dragonweaver.  She has some
documentation for Psanky or Ukrainian Easter Egg painting that refers to
the use of suet and she is wondering how our suet might differ from
period suet.  She did try using it as described and it didn't work.
 Also she was wondering if you could recommend a good recipe for
vinegar, which she also uses in the process.  She figures if anyone can
help her it would be this group.  This is the reference she used.

How to acid etch eggs from The Jewel-house of Art & Nature by Hugh
Plat 1594:
32. How to grave any armes, posies, or other devise upon an egg shel, &
how to through-cut the same, with divers works & fancies, which will
seem very strange to
such as know not the maner of the doing thereof. Dippe an egge in suet
being molten, first the one halfe, and then the other, holding the same
betweene your thumb and forefinger when you dippe it, let the same coole
in your hand, and beeing colde, with a sharpe bodkin or some other
instrument of iron, worke or grave in the suet what letters or
portrature you wil, taking away the suet clean, & leaving the shell bare
at the bottom of your worke. Then lay this eg thus engraved in good wine
vinegar or strong alliger in a Glasse or stone Pottinger, for some six
or eight houres, or more, or lesse, according to the strength and
sharpnesse of the Vinegar, then take out the egge, and in water that is
blood warme disolve the suet from the egge, then lay your egge to coole,
and the woorke will appear to be graven in the shell of a russet color.
Saepius probatum. And if the egge lie long inough in the vineger after
it is so graven, and sovered in suet as before, the letters will appear
upon the egge it selfe being hard sodden, or else if you care not to
loose the meate, you may picke out the same when the shell is through
graven, and so you shall have a strange piece of work perfourmed.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Ciar
The Shire of Harrows Cross,
in Avacal