[Sca-cooks] Another TV-inspired cooking contest

[Johnna Holloway]

There are yeast raised (ale barm) great cakes. I suppose you could  
bake a number of them
and stack them.
There are wafers. Those could be stacked into towers.
Baumkuchen- those spit cakes would be tall enough. Rumpolt has a  
recipe for Baumkuchen.
Kransekake would make a tall enough cake. Substitute a period recipe  
and bake in the cake rings.. maybe??
How about gingerbread?
I think the question is how sculpted does it have to be? The icing  
I've already dated and that article is in the Florilegium.

Johnnae

On Nov 17, 2010, at 8:56 PM, bronwynmgn at aol.com wrote:

> HRH Jana of the East has announced a Cake Sculpting contest for  
> coronation.  The theme is "Medieval".  Cakes may be any combination  
> of layers and flavors, with a minimum height of 2 feet and a maximum  
> height of 4 feet.  They must be transported from the work table to  
> the display table intact. There is a "Most Fun" category, as well as  
> a "Historically Accurate" category, for which documentation MUST be  
> provided.
> Am I wrong in thinking that there is NO period documentation for  
> doing this sort of thing with anything we would recognize as cake?   
> In that case, I can only assume the documentation is for what you  
> sculpted it to look like.
> I really wish people would quit bringing modern game shows into what  
> is supposed to be a medieval atmosphere.