[Sca-cooks] Re: Sca-cooks Digest, Vol 14, Issue 31
Christina L Biles
bilescl at okstate.edu
Fri Jul 16 13:06:50 PDT 2004
Message: 8
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 19:54:11 -0400
From: "Sharon Gordon" <gordonse at one.net>
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] tart crust question
To: "Cooks within the SCA" <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
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> want to do a tart like this one:
> <http://worldart.sjsu.edu/VieO42870$10084*778063>
>>>>Wow, really pretty tart! When you figure out how to do that design
and get
it to stay even, I'd love to hear how you did it!
Well, it helps that my best beloved is an engineer & that we have AutoCad
on the computer at home. He designed it for me, printed it out in the
right size of the tart & I used that as a template to cut out the design.
It held up quite well in my tests.
The trick is to roll it out on parchment paper, although it held up pretty
well to being folded in quarters the usual way. The parchment paper just
made it easier. Really, it's just like a pierced crust for an apple pie,
just more elaborate.
>>>What's the white in the silvery cylinder on the left?
salt. At this time period, the Dutch loved spiffy huge salts. I've got
several images with salts that have huge elaborate bases & itty bitty
bowls for the salt.
>>>On the right would that be small chickens or a smaller bird?
It could be either. Sadly, I can't look at a stripped down bird & tell
you what type it is. There are a number of examples in still-life at the
same period/place of piles of different game birds, so I'd say it could as
easily be game birds as chickens.
>> On top of themis that black olives or a blue fruit?
In better color images, the fruits are reddish. They could be prunes,
plums, cherries, or reddish olives.
>>> The more rounded dark green ones could be rose leaves or bay leaves or
??? The white/pinkish item below the tart
I think that we are looking at rose leaves and petals from a wild rose,
although the petals may be from some other flower.
>>>Any ideas what the flowery herb is at the front of the table and maybe
the
same thing is just behind the orange?
blue cornflowers or blue borage flowers. Borage, I think.
>>>In the glass container at the back (can't make out it's base) is that
likely
to be wine, vinegar, cider or something else given the container and
color?
My personal guess is that the roemer is filled with a white wine or
possibly a cider.
-Magdalena da Cadamosto
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