[Sca-cooks] dissolved pearls

[ED Reese]

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More along the idea of an English "cracker" that gets pulled with a teeny
explosion -- a tour de force. :-) Grand and old meant that it was a
venerable "splash" to liven up a meal! ;-)

I don't know about providing tums to the diners -- the cooks might take it
amiss! :-))

Esther

At 10:41 PM 5/18/2003 -0500, you wrote:

>Ester gave some good ideas for Roman or psuedo-Roman feasts and among
>this said:
>>Come up with a dessert -- or even a soup -- based on the grand old
>>cracker
>>of Cleopatra dissolving a pearl in wine -- a "soup" in which "pearls"
>>of
>>sour cream/cream cheese, that sort of thing "dissolve".
>Pardon me if I misunderstood you, but it sounds like you don't believe
>they dissolved pearls in Roman times. But I imagine they did, at least
>for the most prosperous. They did it in the Middle Ages, and I suspect
>they were doing it from medical tradition handed down from Classical
>times.
>For more information on this, check this file in the ACCESSORIES
>section of the Florilegium:
>pearls-msg        (22K)  7/19/99    Period pearls. Use in jewelry and
>elsewhere.
>I suspect though that disolving pearls in the populace's drinks might
>be a bit expensive. Perhaps you could do it for the headtable. The rest
>of us peons could get say Tums in ours. :-)
>Stefan
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