[Sca-cooks] sugar-paste and other sugar craft info
Stefan li Rous
StefanliRous at austin.rr.com
Mon Nov 7 23:11:34 PST 2005
Margaret (Mah-greht) Northwode (Narthwoohd> commented:
> wherein
> Dame Alys (waves) takes up period sugarplate. I had never heard of
> this
> before, being a n00b in the ways of Real Period Cooking, and
> thought it
> sounded Spiff and Nifty To Try. I'd been thinking of playing with
> sugarplate for 12th Night.
You might want to take a look at this file in the FOOD-SWEETS section
of the Florilegium. There are quite a number of messages in there
from Dame Alys as well as useful info from others:
sugar-paste-msg (104K) 6/29/03 Making sugar paste sotelties.
Here are some other sugar info and crafts in the same section as well:
Roses-a-Sugar-art (21K) 7/15/98 "Divers Pretty Things Made Of
Roses & Sugar"
by Mistress Renata Kestryl of
Highwynds.
Sgr-a-Cnftns-art (20K) 12/26/00 "Of Sugar and Confections" by Alys
Katharine, O.L., O.P. (Elise
Fleming).
suckets-msg (7K) 4/ 1/02 Spices, fruit or fruit peel in a
sugar syrup
sugar-msg (112K) 3/25/04 Sugar and other medieval sweeteners.
Sugar-Icing-art (36K) 11/10/01 "Sugar Icing" by Johnnae llyn
Lewis. Some
notes on sugar icing in late
period.
sugar-icing-msg (6K) 1/16/02 Period sugar icing/frosting.
sugar-paste-msg (104K) 6/29/03 Making sugar paste sotelties.
sugar-sources-msg (16K) 6/13/01 Modern sugar sources. Sugar types.
Sugarplums-art (19K) 7/15/98 "Visions of Sugarplums" by Mistress
Renata Kestryl of Highwynds.
marzipan-msg (85K) 6/18/04 Use of marzipan (almond paste) in
sotelties.
Stefan
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THLord Stefan li Rous Barony of Bryn Gwlad Kingdom of Ansteorra
Mark S. Harris Austin, Texas
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