[Sca-cooks] Kashrut and illusion food

[Susan Fox-Davis]

Devra wrote:

> Many years ago, I went to a small but wonderful event called 'Feast for a
> winter's afternoon.'  Among the other great dishes they had at least 3 kewl
> illusion items: sugar-frosted grapes mixed on the tray with marzipan grapes,
> rolls which were cut open and stuffed with baby-rabbit stew, then recovered,
> and a dynamite 'cake'.  The cake was served as part of the first course, and
> looking at it, you thought it was a frosted darkish spice cake. Actually, the
> 'cake' was a chicken loaf (think meatloaf or pate), the base frosting was
> whipped egg white slathered on and then hardened/cooked in the oven, and the
> decoration (yellow dots all over the white 'frosting') was egg yolk piped on
> in little spots and then cooked in oven.  (They might have done both stages
> of the 'frosting' in one go.) It was served cold, I think, and was both
> clever and tasty.
>      Devra

Very cool!  How did the "frosting" taste cold?  Frankly
it doesn't sound that appealing, but then again, we eat
sweet meringue cold on a lemon pie.

They thought I was nuts last night at cake class, as I
was piping some very golden-yellow frosting and saying that
we could have snuck Cheez-Wiz in and nobody would have
noticed until the first bite.  OTOH, maybe I need to take the
rest of this frosting, which really does look like cheese, fleck
it with chopped cherries instead of chilis, and serve it
with sugared fried tortilla chips.

Selene Colfox