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 )

I've been asked enough questions lately I want to make my stuff available, but I don't have a website. This leaves LJ as my best means of information dissemination. I'll keep this behind cuts, though.

A Medicine for an Ague.
Initially submitted for Northern Lights A&S Competition 15.
Lady Elinor Strangewayes, College of St Cuthbert.

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Thanks to the generosity of iarwain, I now have a pound of raw dried cacao beans. This is as close to from-the-tree as I'm gonna get. As you may have noticed, I've been having a lot of fun playing around with the late 16th & early 17th century recipes for chocolate ( Read more... )

[EDITED to stay current ( Read more... )

Tablets of Drinking Chocolate in the Spanish Style

100 cocoa beans
2 cods red chili pepper (approximately 1/2 tsp)
1 handful aniseed (quarter-sized mound in palm, powdered)
2 mecaxóchitl flowers (a dash of pepper was substituted)
2 drams cinnamon (1/2 tsp)
12 almonds
12 hazelnuts
1 cup sugar

Grind the cinnamon, anise, and chili peppers together. Grind ( Read more... )

One of my A&S projects for Northern Lights this year is chocolate. I found a really neat pamphlet which just clings barely to the edge of period (Antonio Colmenero, tran. Don Diego de Vades-forte. “A Curious Treatise of the Nature and Quality of Chocolate.” Published in London in 1640, in Spain before 1631.) and decided I wanted to redact the ( Read more... )

*** I've been transferring my research over to its own website. More up-to-date projects can be found here: https://strangewayes.wordpress.com/Read more... )