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From "Dining With William Shakespeare" by Madge Lorwin, page 401:

"At Christmas bread bakers sometimes added sugar and currants to bread dough and made little roly-poly figures, with currants for eyes, for the children of their customers. They were not supposed to do this sort of thing, for, according to the statues governing the various baking crafts, anything made with sugar and fruit was the preserve of the pastry cooks. There were numerous complaints against bread bakers who made the little 'Yulebabies' by pastry cooks, who, like all craftsmen, jealously defended their own jurisdictional rights."

I just love the idea of making 'Yulebabies' for an upcoming Yule event - or to hand out as samples at a food workshop. So cute! :)

EDIT: Another fun notion for Elizabethan and earlier feasting from 'Fabulous Feasts' by Madeleine Pelner Cosman, page 18:

"Sometimes small flat platters called roundels, made of porcelaine or stiff paper, were served with the last course of the feast. When the food was eaten, each guest turned over his roundel to find written on the reverse a text or poem of bawdy phrase which required an improvised setting and singing."

Apparently there is a 'delightful set' of these roundel that were created for Queen Elizabeth which are discussed by Curt Buhler in 'Renaissance News 9' (1956), 146f

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Date: 2009-08-09 05:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gryphonlsb.livejournal.com
Edible Children...Id like to point out that I, for one, am not shocked

;)

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Date: 2009-08-09 06:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hsifeng.livejournal.com
Nor should you be! ;)

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Date: 2009-08-09 06:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gryphonlsb.livejournal.com
There must be BACON in them then

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Date: 2009-08-10 12:08 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hsifeng.livejournal.com
Bacon makes EVERYTHING better...

Broken Leg? Bacon.

Lost your job? Bacon.

Ready to go postal all over your neighborhood? BACON BACON BACON!

And I am not talking about the cops....*grin*

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Date: 2009-08-09 05:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] virginiadear.livejournal.com
Better than springerle, which I'd have thought would be more, er, natural for your persona?
Or have I, perhaps, misunderstood who your persona is?

But "Yulebabies" do sound the most delightful fun!

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Date: 2009-08-09 06:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hsifeng.livejournal.com
*chuckle* I already have a few springerle molds (still lusting after the 'card set' one from House on the Hill though). Given the 'European Mixer' that most workshops/Yule events end up being, I can get away with a lot. Especially at the workshops, which are mostly 'English' in nature...

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Date: 2009-08-09 09:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] virginiadear.livejournal.com
We want details, you know. And pictures.
Erm--'pictures' reminds me I still owe you some pics of my garden, such as it is. They have to be resized. I bought this particular camera for capturing detail (thinking "garb" at the time), which it will do, but I haven't learned all I need to about using it.
So right now, the images of, for instance, the arboreal grapes (18' above the ground) are so big you have to scroll the screen and they've been reduced by at least half, already.

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Date: 2009-08-09 11:52 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hsifeng.livejournal.com
There will be pictures and details and all sorts of good stuff as the various food projects progress. I'm getting hungry just thinking about it....*grin*

I am looking forward to garden photos when the sizing issues are resolved. Thank you for sharing!

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Date: 2009-08-09 08:25 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kimikosews.livejournal.com
Oh, I gotta try some of these yulebabies.

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Date: 2009-08-09 11:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hsifeng.livejournal.com
Isn't it a fun idea?!? I think we should 'host' one of the 12th Night tables at Full Circle this year and blow the doors of their history scale. *grin*

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Date: 2009-08-10 12:08 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kimikosews.livejournal.com
*snerk* I tried a period recipe once, and no one wanted to find out what was under the nice pie crust but me. Delicious meat dish, but a waste of good food.

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Date: 2009-08-10 12:10 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hsifeng.livejournal.com
That is why we host OUR friends at OUR table. The people I am thinking of are food pussies...*grin*

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Date: 2009-08-10 12:17 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kimikosews.livejournal.com
Sure then. 12th Night it is, with a period dish (now to find a period dish I want to cook).

And I will bring home made soap balls to properly wash our hands before and after our meal. Something I learned from Bess at CoCo. And she's graciously allowing me to teach about the Unwashed Tudors myths at RenSymp!

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Date: 2009-08-10 12:30 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hsifeng.livejournal.com
Excellent! I have table clothes and wash towels as well as salt cellars and olive oil & vinegar dispensers.

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Date: 2009-08-15 07:40 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] myladyswardrobe.livejournal.com
There is at least ONE full set of these roundels in Colchester Castle - complete with their box. I think there may be TWO sets. They really are exquisite!

Actually - you've just given me an idea!!! Next year's Outside Gentry Houshold at Kentwell will have a set of these!!!!

Just need to get my dad to make my a set of round wooden "platters" - then I can paint them!! :-)

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Date: 2009-08-17 05:25 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hsifeng.livejournal.com
Ohhh! Post piccies please - I love that someone is going to do something fun with this!

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