[Sca-cooks] Orlaith's cake

[Sue Clemenger]

I couldn't figure out what the heck it was at all, until I clicked on
the thumbnail, and got a larger view.  It's great.  Many kudos to the
makers and the recipient!
--maire, who hopes someone will encourage Roxanne to join the
SCA-laurels list, so she can pick her brain (I'm learning bobbin lace)
OFC: I'm planting 4 half-barrels full of calendula.  Don't ya just love
multi-useful plants? I can eat the flowers fresh, use them dried in herb
mixtures, dye with the dried flowers, and also make salves....

Orlaith of Storvik wrote:
>
> Yep.  :)
>
> Lacemaker and Elizabethan Studies.  The cake was Honey Saffron covered in
> Marzipan with gold lace and pulled sugar bobbins.  Roxanne said that she
> didn't realize it was a cake until the bobbins started melting from the
> heat in the Vigil tent!
>
> Orlaith
>
> At 07:12 PM 5/28/03 -0600, you wrote:
> >A bobbin-lace cake! How wonderful! I take it that Roxanne is a lace
> >maker?
> >--maire, embroidery and textile geek masquerading as a cook....
> >
> >Olwen the Odd wrote:
> > >
> > > http://www.fairyforest.org/gallery under Sapphire Joust you can find a
> > > picture of Orlaith and Terezza and a picture of part of the cake they made
> > > for Roxannes vigil.
>
> Lady Orla Carey
> Exchequer for the Barony of Storvik
> Personal Secretary to Dame Roxanne Greenstreet
>
> Per bend sinister gules and Or, a wolf couchant contourny sable.
>
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