[Sca-cooks] Re: Exploding Cabbage

[Daniel Myers]

T'was a team effort.  The paper mache part was done by Emmelyne de 
Marksbury (emmelyne at silkewerk dot net).  The internal workings were 
made by me.

Interestingly enough, a version of paper mache is actually period for 
Europe.  There's a note about it in the Florithingy.

 From  http://www.florilegium.org/files/CRAFTS/papermaking-msg.html

 > Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 14:11:48 EST
 > From: <GoodhueMA at aol.com>
 > To: sca-arts at raven.cc.ukans.edu
 > Subject: Re: References to Paper Mache in Period?
 >
 > <<Mistress Teleri ferch Pawl is investigating uses and techniques of 
paper
 > mache in period>>
 >
 > In "Traite d' Architecture" printed in 1567, Philibert Delorme 
describes dolls
 > made of paper paste which were pressed into hollow molds.  These toys 
used
 > paper pulp, bran, sawdust and vegetable matter to make the 
pulp.  Adding
 > arsenic stopped the rats from eating the finished dolls.  It isn't 
exactly
 > paper mache the way we use it today but rather close.
 >
 > HL Agrippina Archon
 > Barony of Bjornsborg
 > Kingdom of Ansteorra"


- Doc


On Jan 13, 2005, at 7:01 PM, Olwen the Odd wrote:

> OMG!!!  That is this the funniest thing I have heard in a while!!  
> Thanks for sharing!  Who did the thing??  I have got to talk to her.
>
> Olwen who only made fog come out of a rice dog.
>
>> The MK Cooks List carried this description---
>> The Entrement - Le Chou Eclatant - was a large paper mache cabbage 
>> made
>> by my very talented lady wife.  The mechanism that worked so well in
>> testing (a balloon inside a 4" diameter tube, with a balloon pump)
>> failed on the first go round, so I had the crew carry it back into the
>> kitchen, reset the silly thing, and we brought it out again.  I was
>> told that the failure and repetition actually made it all somewhat
>> funnier.  The second time it worked - sort of.  Instead of shooting 
>> out
>> broccoli pieces in a 4 foot radius, one lone floret popped out, which 
>> I
>> then presented to St. Dorinda.
>>
>> Maybe Doc will elaborate further.
>>
>> Johnnae
>>
>> Linda Peterson wrote:
>>
>>> The picture of this is lovely, the name intrigues. What did it do?
>>>
>>> Mirhaxa
>>>
>>>  http://www.medievalcookery.com/images/chou.jpg
>>>
>>>  mirhaxa at morktorn.com