Oh yeah...I did another thing for Crown, too.
Food, this time.
I was part of the kitchen squad, and given the Very Special Assignment of creating a Pie That Was Not Pie for the banquetty course to be presented to Their Majesties at the head table.
So I did.
I did a bunch of research into period sugar paste, and then just bought some modern stuff because I didn't have time to faff. I'll come back to this, though, and do it properly at some point.
(Now) Dame Edith was feast steward, and had themed her feast around pies. She'd taken a course several months earlier, and had thoughtfully posted a bunch of photos from it which I used as a reference. The design elements included a dragon for Drachenwald, and maple leaves for the visiting Avacal royalty. And dots. Because I was basically making it up on the fly, so didn't have the vast array of pie decoration devices that Edith has. The "pie" was also filled with spiced sugared almonds.
I got the base dough look by working some food colouring into the sugarpaste, and the baked look by mixing more food colouring with vodka and painting it on. There is also some edible gold, in there, because Royalty and Head Table and obviously.
Takeaways from this are, as I mentioned, doing the sugar paste from scratch. I'll also look into period food colourings. I also regret painting the dragon black. The presentation of it to the Head Table was awkward and left me feeling not very good, which is a bummer because this was a fun project and I was excited to do it.
I was part of the kitchen squad, and given the Very Special Assignment of creating a Pie That Was Not Pie for the banquetty course to be presented to Their Majesties at the head table.
So I did.
I did a bunch of research into period sugar paste, and then just bought some modern stuff because I didn't have time to faff. I'll come back to this, though, and do it properly at some point.
(Now) Dame Edith was feast steward, and had themed her feast around pies. She'd taken a course several months earlier, and had thoughtfully posted a bunch of photos from it which I used as a reference. The design elements included a dragon for Drachenwald, and maple leaves for the visiting Avacal royalty. And dots. Because I was basically making it up on the fly, so didn't have the vast array of pie decoration devices that Edith has. The "pie" was also filled with spiced sugared almonds.
I got the base dough look by working some food colouring into the sugarpaste, and the baked look by mixing more food colouring with vodka and painting it on. There is also some edible gold, in there, because Royalty and Head Table and obviously.
Takeaways from this are, as I mentioned, doing the sugar paste from scratch. I'll also look into period food colourings. I also regret painting the dragon black. The presentation of it to the Head Table was awkward and left me feeling not very good, which is a bummer because this was a fun project and I was excited to do it.
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