[Sca-cooks] Cake Sotelties

[Stefan li Rous]

Elisabetta commented:
> Thanks for all the advice! My plan is to make a sheet cake (what  
> type yet I'm
> not certain) for a base and then decorate it using the marizpan.

Perhaps this file in the FOOD-SWEEY-DECORATED section of the  
Florilegium might be of some use to you:
cak-soteltes-msg  (51K)  6/19/04    Cake based sotelties. Decorated  
cakes.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD-SWEETS/cak-soteltes-msg.html

The same section also has these files:
Roses-a-Sugar-art (21K)  7/15/98    "Divers Pretty Things Made Of  
Roses & Sugar"
                                        by Mistress Renata Kestryl of  
Highwynds.
Sgr-a-Cnftns-art  (20K) 12/26/00    "Of Sugar and Confections" by Alys
                                        Katharine, O.L., O.P. (Elise  
Fleming).
Sugar-Icing-art   (36K) 11/10/01    "Sugar Icing" by Johnnae llyn  
Lewis. Some
                                        notes on sugar icing in late  
period.
sugar-icing-msg    (6K)  1/16/02    Period sugar icing/frosting.

Stefan
(hey, you northern folks can take your cold, icy weather back. Brrr.  
Very few of the folks here know how to drive on ice. And to think  
that after the last US election I was considering moving to  
Canada  :-) )
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