[Sca-cooks] New cooking tool! ;o)

[Sue Clemenger]

Yup.  Which is probably what I had in mind when I saw the similar thing at
Michael's.  If I'm not mistaken, though, yours is an actual "pasta machine,"
and the one I saw is called a "pasta machine for clay," so it's meant less
for noodle and more for playing? I suspect that cost may be a factor as
well...
--maire

----- Original Message -----
From: "Johnna Holloway" <johnna at sitka.engin.umich.edu>
To: "Cooks within the SCA" <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 5:28 AM
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] New cooking tool! ;o)


> Gee I mentioned that on November 3rd in an early response to the Count--
>
> Small batches and what they don't tell you is that
> if you want it thin you roll it through a pasta machine's rollers.
> Start thick and keep running it through so it gets thinner and thinner.
> Then cut and roll for artificial cinnamon sticks.
> If you do a huge batch, then only work with a part and keep rest in
fridge.
> ----------------
>
> I keep one machine around just to use for things like this now. The other
> has been co-opted for clay stuff in the basement. I don't touch theirs;
> they leave
> mine alone.
>
> Johnnae
>
> Sue Clemenger wrote:
>
> >I saw something this evening in Michael's (craft store, where I was
> >eyeballing some inexpensive carving tools for this new thing I learned to
do
> >at Collegium last weekend*), and maybe because I was thinking of Papa's
> >story of the Cinnamon Sticks of Doom, and maybe it was just serendipity,
but
> >there in the aisle with all the varieties of modeling clays and sculpies
and
> >stuff, are these $24 small-sized "pasta machines" meant specifically for
use
> >with stuff like sculpy.
> >Ba-da-bing! Wouldn't that work just as well for marzipan or sugar plate?
The
> >tool looks to make a pretty good-sized sheet of the stuff, and looks (on
the
> >box) to be very similar in style/function to the pasta maker that my Dad
> >had, many years ago.
> >At any rate, I thought I'd mention it, for those of you who are inclined
to
> >make these sorts of things.....
> >--maire