[Sca-cooks] sugar-paste and other sugar craft info

[Stefan li Rous]

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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