[Sca-cooks] Re: edible embroidery

Susan Fox selene at earthlink.net
Wed Dec 28 16:17:19 PST 2005


On 12/28/05 3:49 PM, "otsisto" <otsisto at socket.net> wrote:

I got that really good Armenian string cheese, the kind that looks like a
skein of yarn and challenged Megen Paget to do something with it.  She
crocheted the cheese.  No joke.  She's in Ft. Worth now but not playing SCA,
more's the pity.

Selene C.

> You can whittle a point on the licorice. (laced a gingerbread box)
> If anything, you are looking at mostly couching methods.
> You could use celery strands as string.
> Fruit leather could be cloth. (saw once a fruit leather pouch filled with
> gem shape hard candy, 4 string licorices as drawstring)
> If you can make hard candy, you can make beads (though it will be a bit
> difficult) and jewels.
> Weave a cloth of string licorice (if able, cut string in half) and with
> needlepoint method using thin strips of fruit leather. (be warned, this can
> get sticky especially if you are a warm handed individual)
> 
> Lyse
> 
> -----Original Message-----
>       What about using licorice whips? You could do blackwork with them...
> Especially on a sheet of marzipan or marziplate... With gold leafing for
> capitals...  Of course, you'd need a needle with a pretty big eye, or maybe
> use an
> awl... (Oh this is so gross)
>    Devra, who is sorry that she even thought about it
>




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