Title: edble-embrdry-msg
Subject: Comments and suggestions on making edible embroidery.
Author: Edited by Mark S. Harris
Last saved by: Mark S. Harris
Keywords: SCA, soteltie, edible, embroidery, string, thread, decoration, knitting

edble-embrdry-msg – 4/29/06

Comments and suggestions on making edible embroidery.

NOTE: See also the files: illusion-fds-msg, Warners-art, gilded-food-msg, marzipan-msg, Sgr-a-Cnftns-art, sotelties-msg, embroidery-msg, emb-blackwork-msg, knitting-msg.

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Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 00:11:20 -0600
From: Stefan li Rous <StefanliRous at austin.rr.com>
Subject: [Sca-cooks] embroidery/cooking Laurels
To: SCA-Cooks maillist SCA-Cooks <SCA-Cooks at ansteorra.org>

Mistress Maire commented:
>>>>
Laurels also don't know everything about everything, despite our secret
decoder rings.  I hang out on this list because you guys let me, bless you
all, but I am *SO* NOT a Food Laurel.  I got recognized for embroidery.
<<<<

Sooo.... Have you figured out how to do edible embroidery? :-)

Stefan
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THLord Stefan li Rous    Barony of Bryn Gwlad    Kingdom of Ansteorra
     Mark S. Harris           Austin, Texas

Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 08:27:19 -0500
From: "Elise Fleming" <alysk at ix.netcom.com>
Subject: [Sca-cooks] Re: Embroidery/cooking Laurels
To: "sca-cooks at ansteorra.org" <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>

Stefan responded to Mistress Maire:
> Sooo.... Have you figured out how to do edible embroidery? :-)

Well, I'm not Maire, but I did a blackwork and cross stitch embroidery cake for a SCAdian needleworker's wedding anniversary.  I copied an Elizabethan blackwork design for the border and found a cross stitch pattern for an owl (of significance for her) for the center.  It's at
http://home.netcom.com/~alysk/photos-medievalcakes.html should you want to see it.  So, Stefan, some of us have done edible embroidery!  <g>

Alys Katharine

Elise Fleming
alysk at ix.netcom.com
http://home.netcom.com/~alysk/

Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 08:39:33 -0500
From: Elaine Koogler <ekoogler1 at comcast.net>
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] embroidery/cooking Laurels
To: Cooks within the SCA <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>

> Sooo.... Have you figured out how to do edible embroidery? :-)
>
> Stefan

I don't know about that, but Dame Olwen did a hat out of marzipan...an
exact replica of one she saw in a painting.  I don't remember which one,
but I'm sure she can tell you!

Kiri

Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 08:46:21 -0500
From: "Martha Oser" <osermart at msu.edu>
Subject: [Sca-cooks] Re: Embroider/Cooking Laurels
To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org

Stefan asked:
> Sooo.... Have you figured out how to do edible embroidery? :-)

Licorice whips - the kind that are the long, spaghetti-like strings, of
course!

  -Helena

Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 07:19:09 -0700
From: "Sue Clemenger" <mooncat at in-tch.com>
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] embroidery/cooking Laurels
To: "Cooks within the SCA" <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>

Not edible embroidery, no, but I do have a pattern for edible  
knitting (made with "string" licorice).  Would that count?

--Maire

Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 12:00:43 EST
From: Devra at aol.com
Subject: [Sca-cooks] Re: edible embroidery
To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org

What about using licorice whips? You could do blackwork with them...
Especially on a sheet of marzipan or marziplate... With gold leafing for
capitals...  Of course, you'd need a needle with a pretty big eye, or  
maybe use an awl... (Oh this is so gross)

      Devra, who is sorry that she even thought about it

Devra Langsam
www.poisonpenpress.com

Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 17:49:30 -0600
From: "otsisto" <otsisto at socket.net>
Subject: RE: [Sca-cooks] Re: edible embroidery
To: "Cooks within the SCA" <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>

You can whittle a point on the licorice. (laced a gingerbread box)
If anything, you are looking at mostly couching methods.
You could use celery strands as string.

Fruit leather could be cloth. (saw once a fruit leather pouch filled with
gem shape hard candy, 4 string licorices as drawstring).
If you can make hard candy, you can make beads (though it will be a bit
difficult) and jewels.

Weave a cloth of string licorice (if able, cut string in half) and with
needlepoint method using thin strips of fruit leather. (be warned, this can
get sticky especially if you are a warm handed individual)

Lyse

Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 16:17:19 -0800
From: Susan Fox <selene at earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Re: edible embroidery
To: Cooks within the SCA <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>

I got that really good Armenian string cheese, the kind that looks like a
skein of yarn and challenged Megen Paget to do something with it.  She
crocheted the cheese.  No joke.  She's in Ft. Worth now but not playing SCA,
more's the pity.

Selene C.

Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 17:50:15 -0800
From: lilinah at earthlink.net
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Embroidery/cooking Laurels
To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org

Stefan responded to Mistress Maire:
> Sooo.... Have you figured out how to do edible embroidery? :-)

Alys Katharine
> Well, I'm not Maire, but I did a blackwork and cross stitch embroidery cake
> for a SCAdian needleworker's wedding anniversary.

Someone knit a couple pairs of socks using "licorice whips" in
several different colors to achieve some color patterns. I haven't
tried it myself, since I just don't like "licorice"...
-- 
Urtatim (that's err-tah-TEEM)
the persona formerly known as Anahita

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