[Sca-cooks] Sugar Plate - gelatin vs Gum Trag...

[Stefan li Rous]

> With Sugar Plate, what are the advantages/disadvantages between using
> Gelatin
> and Gum Traganth and are there any other agents that can be used and 
> the
> relative merits of them...
>
> Drakey - about to embark on a sugar plate frenzy as soon as he has
> finished his Chaperon with oak-leave dagging...
>
Yeah, I don't think that sugar plate would work for that oak leaf 
dagging. :-) I could just see a bunch of SCA folks swarming around you, 
breaking off pieces and nibbling like a bunch of piranas.

You might want to take a look at this file in the FOOD-SWEETS section 
for a bunch of info on sugarpaste. A lot of it from Mistress Alys.

sugar-paste-msg (104K) 6/29/03   Making sugar paste sotelties.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD-SWEETS/sugar-paste-msg.html

Stefan
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