Update: Let them eat cake- Eustace
Posted by: Alysten on: March 9, 2011
The last post was suppose to be about Eustace and ended up being about sugar paste. Well this is what this project journal is suppose to be about. A nice place for me to store random project thoughts for future reference. So… back to Eustace.
Eustace’s head, arms and chicken will be the rice treats and gum paste part of the project. I have already started on the head.
Rice cereal head shape:
Here he is with the start of the paste coating to establish features:
The mouth has been cut and gum pasted. The lips, eyebrows, eye sockets, and ears have all started to take their final shape. The final coat will be royal icing. It will be shaped to look like chiseled stone.
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- opusanglicanum: there is a c15th version, and the latest example (the one I used) was from richard dolby cook's dictionary of 1832, quoted in elizabeht ayrtons englis
- Alysten: I've done several galentines that require that level of boning. But I haven't done one of those types of subtleties yet. I am hoping to attempt one w
- opusanglicanum: havae you tried the seventeenth century thing where you bone out a whole chicken (that bits tricky as you have to bone it complete from the inside, in
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