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Modern candles

2007-10-28T17:10:05Z

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lidomdr
==Modern Candles for SCA feasts:==
Modern candles are generally made from white paraffin. Many of the yellow beeswax candles available today are deliberately coloured yellow or purified less to keep a yellow colour to distinguish them from paraffin (although sometimes you can get Asian import [[beeswax]] candles that are cheaper and whiter, although some may contain part paraffin).

'''WARNING''': Beeswax candles burn much hotter than paraffin candles, and can severly burn and blister skin. Never play with melted beeswax.

Large fat [[beeswax]] candles are good for feasts - you can often buy them cheaply, they are a not bad imitation of period candles, white/cream ones usually don't contain nasty scents that people have allergies to, and they should last nicely, without going out, through several [[feast]]s. They also generally keep the light at the height required for seeing your [[food]].

The tall white emergency candles generally require a candlestand, drip wax more, blow out more often and shed less light, but still work quite well. You can generally buy a pack of 10 from the [[supermarket]] for just a dollar or two.

Tealight candles, are cheap and provide lots of light, however they burn very hotly, heating up the feast hall, which in the Australian [[winter]] is generally quite hot enough by the time everyone arrives (and let's not mention the [[Australia]]n [[summer]]). They also go out easily, wax stain [[tablecloth]]s (and more permanently than other candle types) and can be hotter to touch. Other types of candles (including the very similar, but less hot votive candles) are much better alternatives for an indoor feast.

TO GET MORE LIGHT FROM YOUR CANDLES: Put a [[metal]] ([[silver]] or [[brass]]) tray under the candles, and stand up another tray behind to act as a reflector. You can get nice cheap [[metal]] trays from Woolworths supermarkets and also from those asian discount homewares stores. Square trays stand up easier, but oval works OK. You may already have a tray or two for serving food.

see also:
*[[lighting]]
*[[candles]]
*[[wax]]
*[[making oil lamps]] the easy way
[[category:artefact (modern)]]

Project Gutenberg

2007-10-28T16:50:06Z

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coelbo
'''Project Gutenberg''' is a project that takes [[book]]s no longer under [[copyright]] (or under special copyright conditions) and converts them into plain text files for distribution on the internet free of charge.

All [[period]] texts could be added to Project Gutenberg but recent translations (those done in the last 70 years or so) of period texts could not be.

Proofreading for Project Gutenberg can be done through the ''Distributed Proofreaders'' website. This site shows one page at a time along with a machine created copy of the text which needs to be checked for errors.

* Project Gutenberg's website - http://gutenberg.net/
* The [[Distributed Proofreaders]] website - http://www.pgdp.net

'''To Quote the Official Site:'''
:Project Gutenberg is the brainchild of Michael Hart, who in 1971 decided that it would be a really good idea if lots of famous and important texts were freely available to everyone in the world. Since then, he has been joined by hundreds of volunteers who share his vision.

:Now, more than thirty years later, Project Gutenberg has the following figures (as of November 8th 2002): 203 New eBooks released during October 2002, 1975 New eBooks produced in 2002 (they were 1240 in 2001) for a total of 6267 Total Project Gutenberg eBooks. 119 eBooks have been posted so far by Project Gutenberg of Australia.

== Books of period interest in Project Gutenberg ==
* [[Beowulf]] (150kb) - http://library.adelaide.edu.au/etext/pg/etext97/bwulf10.txt
* The Complete works of William [[Shakespeare]] (5mb) - http://library.adelaide.edu.au/etext/pg/etext94/shaks12.txt
* Decameron -- Volume 1 by [[Giovanni Boccaccio]] - http://library.adelaide.edu.au/etext/pg/etext03/thdcm10.txt
* The Life Of Castruccio Castracani Da Luca by [[Niccolo Machiavelli]] - http://library.adelaide.edu.au/etext/pg/etext98/tprnc10.txt
* History Of Florence And Of The Affairs Of Italy by [[Niccolo Machiavelli]] - http://library.adelaide.edu.au/etext/pg/etext01/hflit10.txt
* Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems by [[Geoffrey Chaucer]] - http://library.adelaide.edu.au/etext/pg/etext00/cbtls10.txt
* The Prince by [[Niccolo Machiavelli]] - http://library.adelaide.edu.au/etext/pg/etext98/tprnc10.txt

== Related Topics ==
* [[Mutopia Project]] (similar to Project Gutenberg, for sheet music)

== External Links ==
* [http://gutenberg.net The Project Gutenberg homepage]
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Daryols (recipe)

2007-10-28T16:41:59Z

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delricchier
== Period Recipe ==
From the [[Forme of Cury]].
:'''''DARYOLS''. XX.IX. III.'''

:Take Creme of Cowe mylke. oþer of Almandes. do þerto ayren with sugur, safroun, and salt, medle it yfere. do it in a coffyn. of II. ynche depe. bake it wel and serue it forth,

=== Notes ===
* ''Daryols''. Qu.

== Modern Recipe ==
[[Image:Daryole.jpg]]
=== Ingredients ===
* Pastry tart case
* 300 ml [[cream]]
* 2 [[egg]]s
* 1/4 cup [[sugar]]
* 12 threads [[saffron]]
* 1/4 tsp [[salt]]

=== Method ===
# Mix all ingredients together and pour into a pastry case
# Bake at 180 C for about 30 minutes until solid

Emma de Lastene

== Notes ==
The historical version of this recipe was taken from the [[Project Gutenberg]] e-text of the [[Forme of Cury]].

See [[Daryoles (recipe)]] for analysis of the possible shape of period darioles.

[[Category:Forme of Cury]][[Category:recipes]]
[[Category:VicCG]][[Category:VicCG-Emma]]