[Sca-cooks] Re: Documentation for Presentation

[kattratt]

Cool do you mean that I screwed up and did something period by mistake? 
  Neat!!!!!
And here I thought it was simply a Very Good Idea.... I still doubt that 
our gingerbread was right but hey way cool period Doll Houses... Made 
from Food.

Nichola


Elise Fleming wrote:

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>The Andalusian _Manuscrito Anonimo_ of the 13th century has a recipe for
>"cast sugar" items which is boiled sugar poured into molds.  I can't lay my
>hands on the Charles Perry edition, but the prior one (my translation) ends
>with "Then decorate it [this refers to the molded item] with gilt...(snip)
>If you want to make a tree or a figure of a castle, cut it piece by piece. 
>Then decorate it room by room (section by section) and stick it together
>with mastic until you complete the figure you want, if God wills."  The
>title in that version was "Figures dressed in sugar".
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>Alys Katharine
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>Elise Fleming
>alysk at ix.netcom.com
>http://home.netcom.com/~alysk/
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