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Baker's Mark Stamp

English, 16th century.

Lady Elinor Strangewayes, OM.

Categories: 25. Heraldic Display; 22. Sculpture and Carving.


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An egg tart.

Take eight eggs, beat them well and take one quart of milk. Let it seethe [2] in a pan and put the eggs into it and stir it around until it becomes thick, and let it become cool, so that the water comes out. Put in it sugar and a little butter. If you would like, you can also put into it ground almonds and rose water. And let it ( Read more... )

I'm building a small clay bake oven as a project for Northern Lights. There are a couple different ways to do it; the one I'm going with is going to be portable (for obvious reasons). Gode Cookery has several good primary images of this sort of thing. This is the one with the best detail.

It's a basic clay form, constructed over a wattle framework ( Read more... )

Northern Lights is coming up. I won the category of Research Paper last year, but in case anyone is looking for my paper ("Desirous to See the Strange Things of the World": The Curious Voyage of M. Hore) online there, I've had to ask for it to be taken down from the site. Not because of anything negative; rather, I want to see if I can get it ( Read more... )

Here's the documentation for my compass, with a few pictures of both it and its supporting primary sources.

( Reproduction of a 16th Century Compass, now with photos! )

Submitted for Northern Lights A&S Competition 15. Boy was it ugly, but it tasted pretty good and seems to actually be effective.

( A Powder for the Cough )

This was my first A&S project. Looking at it now, I'm rather embarrassed, but I was rather proud of it at the time. I'll post pics later.

( A Late Period English Quadrant )

Submitted for Northern Lights 14.

( Excellent Small Cakes )