Confections and Cakes

By Elise Fleming, also known as Dame (Countess) Alys Katharine in the Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA)

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  • Sugar Paste and Confections
  • "Medieval" Cakes
  • Modern Cakes
  • Historic Toilets
  • Articles
  • Welcome! One purpose of this site is to show what I have created, from cakes with simple drop flowers to medieval book cakes with a turnable page.

    But another purpose is to let you see my triumphs as well as my mistakes, to say to yourself that you could do better and then go and do it. One-up-man-ship has been part of human nature since prehistoric times. "Og cook mammoth with salt. I gonna cook it with salt and these plants."

    And, while it may seem odd to link toilets with a cookery site, consider that the final destination of the cook’s or confectioner’s hard work and devotion is the… No other artist’s efforts are designed to ultimately end up in the privy. In the original guilds, were not the secrets of the trade considered privileged information?!?

    Go and one-up me!