[Sca-cooks] Re: Cakes

[Nancy Kiel]

I think they are fabulous, and I want to try to make something like that, 
some day.  But how do you copy onto rice paper?  Can you run it thru a copy 
machine?

Nancy Kiel
nancy_kiel at hotmail.com
Never tease a weasel!
This is very good advice.
For the weasel will not like it
And teasing isn't nice.




>From: "Elise Fleming" <alysk at ix.netcom.com>
>Reply-To: alysk at ix.netcom.com, Cooks within the SCA 
><sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
>To: "sca-cooks at ansteorra.org" <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
>Subject: [Sca-cooks] Re: Cakes
>Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 10:26:41 -0500
>
>Stefan wrote:
> >Wow! Those are quite inspirational, although also a bit overwhelming
> >as in, there's no way I can ever do anywhere near as good, so why try?
>
>Well, to me that's a bit discouraging to hear.  I had hoped the response
>would be something like "What if I tried to do X instead?"  Or, "Hah!  I
>see the mistakes in that one.  I can do better!"  Please note that I
>included some "flops" - like the icing that melted in the heat of a May
>Cooper's Lake event!  Now, keep in mind that we all have different
>abilities.  You, Stefan, understand computers.  To me they are wizard boxes
>and I have no idea what the buttons in the top row (F1, etc), print screen,
>esc mean, nor do I usually use that block of keys on the right except when
>I need specific symbols (and I have to look up their numbers!)  So,
>regarding cakes, I'm a "copyist".  I can copy a picture if I have a line
>drawing.  For several of the cakes with pictures I used the drawings in
>children's coloring books and directly copied them onto semi-transparent
>rice paper.  It's easy, then, to color in the picture.  (If anyone needs
>hints, e-mail me.)  Same thing goes for borders.  I've found some scribal
>boks (SCAdian) that give examples of different styles of borders and I just
>copy them in icing.  One thing that I do have is a steady hand so some of
>the work is easier for me than for others.  However, I can do calligraphy
>on cakes but I don't seem to be very good at it on paper.  Go figure! <g>
>
>So, having zapped into Laurel-teaching mode, I would say to look at the
>cakes, find something that looks fun to do and try to copy it - or e-mail
>me and ask for hints about how I did it.  I'd like to inspire, not
>intimidate.  (However, I will say that I'm tickled to receive praise!)
>

>Alys Katharine
>
>Elise Fleming
>alysk at ix.netcom.com
>http://home.netcom.com/~alysk/
>
>
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