[Sca-cooks] Casa Bardicci Subtlety Contest

[Jeff Gedney]

>So, how would one go about making a "fountain" without a 
>post-Renaissance electric fountain kit?  I'm thinking, an adjoining 
>reservoir set on a shelf just above the level of the output spout. 
> Fluid goes in the reservoir and out the spout.  Refill as necessary, 
>isn't that what servants are for?

Heck, My dear! 
The common pump is plainly and documentably period.  
Also could use a bladder to hold the reservoir of liquid 
and applied pressure to it. In fact, Coopers sells bota's that could easily have served in this capacity.


Capt Elias
Dragonship Haven, East
(Stratford, CT, USA)
Apprentice in the House of Silverwing

-Renaissance Geek of the Cyber Seas
- Help! I am being pecked to death by the Ducks of Dilletanteism! 
There are SO damn many more things I want to try in 
the SCA than I can possibly have time for. 
It's killing me!!!

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Upon the hempen tackle ship-boys climbing;
Hear the shrill whistle which doth order give
To sounds confused; behold the threaden sails,
Borne with the invisible and creeping wind,
Draw the huge bottoms through the furrow'd sea,
Breasting the lofty surge: O, do but think
You stand upon the ravage and behold
A city on the inconstant billows dancing;
For so appears this fleet majestical,
Holding due course to Harfleur. 
  - Shakespeare - Henry V, Act III, Prologue







---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Susan Fox <selene at earthlink.net>
Reply-To: Cooks within the SCA <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Date:  Wed, 24 Aug 2005 09:08:44 -0700

>It could be worse.  She could have run the fountain through that one 
>instead of the fish. White wine, anybody? <grin, duck, runaway!>
>
>So, how would one go about making a "fountain" without a 
>post-Renaissance electric fountain kit?  I'm thinking, an adjoining 
>reservoir set on a shelf just above the level of the output spout. 
> Fluid goes in the reservoir and out the spout.  Refill as necessary, 
>isn't that what servants are for?
>
>Selene
>
>kingstaste at mindspring.com wrote:
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>>I tasted some of that particular subtlety late that night.  I never imagined
>>it would taste like almonds and rosewater :)
>>Christianna
>>
>>
>>Greetings!  Yes, Faerisa, please let us know when the photos get posted.
>>(I hope one doesn't need to "register" to see them.  I have so many Yahoo
>>names and passwords now that I don't recall any!)  Per instructions from
>>the hosts of the contest, I went to see the display at 1 pm but only one
>>item had been submitted at that time.  (Two meetings - 3 pm, 5 pm - and
>>Midrealm Court prevented coming down any other time.)  Can you tell us what
>>was entered?  Did you take photos of other entries?  The only one I saw was
>>a gilded "P..nis on the Half Shell".
>>
>>Alys Katharine
>>
>>Elise Fleming
>>
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