Subtleties

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Food disguised to look like other food, or some other object altogether. A modern analogy for a subtleties would be character cakes, but in [[period]] they were either sweet or savoury.

A favourite example of a subtelty was skinning a peacock (keeping the feathers in tact), [[roasting]] the bird, and then replacing the skin back over it so it looked like the live thing. Other common subtelty creations are [[dragon]]s, [[castle]]s, birds, heraldic [[devices]].

[[Marzipan]], [[herbs]], [[flower]]s etc. are all used to decorate foods.

Also note that there are about 15 different ways of spelling subtelty.

Related links:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SCA_Subtleties/
This list is a forum for (but not restricted to) SCA members dedicated to the research and recreation of subtleties (also reffered to as sotelties, soltelties, etc.), entremets and illusion foods within SCA timeframe. We study documented recipes and examples of this food art from the Roman, Medieval and Renaissance sources as well as sharing our attempts at recreating our own versions.

Entremets, illusion foods

Eleanor of Castile

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'''Eleanor of Castile''' (1244-1290) was the first [[queen consort]] of [[Edward I]] of [[England]]. Eleanor was born in [[Castile]], [[Spain]], the daughter of [[Ferdinand III]], [[King]] of Castile and [[Leon]]. Her given [[name]] was Leonor (she was called Eleanor in England). She [[marriage|married]] Edward, the son of [[Henry III]] of [[England]], in October 1254 at Burgos and became [[queen]] in 1272 when his father died and he became king. Theirs was one of the most successful [[royal]] marriages of all time, and she often accompanied her husband on his military campaigns, giving [[birth]] to his fourth son (later King [[Edward II]] of [[England]]) at Caernarfon in 1284, immediately after the conquest of [[Wales]]. She gave birth to sixteen children all told, six of whom survived into adulthood, but only two or three of whom outlived their parents.

Eleanor died on November 28, 1290, at [[Nottingham]] (believed actually Harby, Nottinghamshire rather than the city), and her body was returned to [[London]] for burial at [[Westminster Abbey]]. Such was Edward's devotion to her that he erected [[memorial cross]]es at each overnight stop. Three of these "[[Eleanor cross]]es" are still landmarks today, although the most famous at [[Charing Cross]] (from which its name derives) is a copy. He did not remarry for nine years, to Margaret of [[France]], in 1299.

The locations of the 12 crosses were as follows: [[Lincoln, England|Lincoln]], [[Grantham]], [[Stamford]], [[Geddington]], [[Northampton]], [[Stony Stratford]], [[Woburn]], [[Dunstable]], [[St. Albans]], [[Waltham]], [[Westcheap]], and [[Charing Cross|Charing]].

'''Children of Queen Eleanor and King Edward I :'''
#[[Eleanor of England|Eleanor]] -- (17 June 1264 - 12 October 1297) married (1) Alfonso III of Aragon, (2) Henry, [[Count]] of Bar
#Joan -- (1265 - <7 September 1265) [[burial|buried]] in [[Westminster Abbey]]
#John -- (<10 July 1266 - 3 August 1271) buried in [[Westminster Abbey]]
#Henry -- (13 July 1267 - 14 October 1274) buried in [[Westminster Abbey]]
#Katherine (or Julian) -- (1271 - 5 September 1271) died shortly after birth in [[Israel]]
#Joan of Acre -- (1272 - 23 April 1307) married (1) Gilbert de Clare, 3rd [[Earl]] of Gloucester

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Subtleties

Eleanor of Castile