[Sca-cooks] Drinking horns for kids

[Stefan li Rous]

Ana commented:
<<< In Sweden, where the Vikings hold wild feasts with mead and salt  
fish,
kids do their horns today with cow or bullhorns, when playing "live".
It should be possible to buy them in a slaughterhouse, I assume they
are sold as "left overs". >>>

Raw horns are available. I don't know that they will fall in  
Christianna's price range though. Also the cleaning of the horns can  
take a while and probably can't be done in one day. One of the  
easiest ways is apparently to place the horn near an ant pile.  
smaller horns tend to be cheaper than larger ones, and since you'd  
probably want smaller horns for children, that would help. Ready to  
work horns are available, but are going to cost a bit more.

This file in the CRAFTS section of the Florilegium contains the  
instructions for making drinking horns and other items from horn.
horn-msg         (105K)  6/ 7/04    Working with horn. drinking horns.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/CRAFTS/horn-msg.html

for any left over horns or horn pieces, this might be of interest:
Horn-Spoons-art    (9K)  1/ 5/00    "Making Horn Spoons" by Mistress  
Gunnora
                                        Hallakarva.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/CRAFTS/Horn-Spoons-art.html

And lest you distroy what you've worked so hard to create, see this  
file:
horn-utn-care-msg  (7K)  3/26/05    Care of utensils made of horn.
http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD-UTENSILS/horn-utn-care-msg.html

Stefan
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