My wife is a expert cake decorator and tonight she asks me how much a book of 22K leaf costs because she read that it can be used to frost cakes! Guess I never heard of that one.
Anyone else?
Posted by Doug Allan (Member # 2247) on :
I had to burn a screen for a baker at one of the upscale resorts here. They said they would be printing "real" gold onto some kind of chocolate cake.
Posted by mike meyer (Member # 542) on :
ya ever look at a bottle of "Goldschlager?" I'd say it is.
Posted by E. Balch (Member # 3545) on :
I've eaten gold leaf, it was sprinkled on a chocolate cake at a fancy event. It doesn't add much to the flavor.
ernie
Posted by Amy Brown (Member # 1963) on :
Mike,
I was going to say the same thing "Goldshlager". That stuff knocked me on my behind once in my younger years!
Posted by Don Coplen (Member # 127) on :
Mike....he asked about eating, not drinking it! lol
Posted by Si Allen (Member # 420) on :
Eating and drinking gold leaf is safe! Gold is inert and will simply pass right through you unchanged! Only 2 things will affect gold (Aqua Regia and Cyanide), and hopefully you don't have any of them in your body! Otherwise, it doesn't matter what you eat!
PS In many places, gold or silver leaf is placed on cakes and pasteries, as a show of wealth and power.
[ January 22, 2003, 10:16 PM: Message edited by: Si Allen ]
Posted by Ken Henry (Member # 598) on :
I' really curious, why would anyone want "sparkly ka-ka". Wouldn't that be the ultimate end result?
Posted by Del Badry (Member # 114) on :
Thats reminds me steve.. is my cake ready yet!
Posted by Kathy Joiner (Member # 1814) on :
Ken Henry You never fail to bring humor to another level!!! Might be a neat trick to play at the lab nest time a sample is needed.
Yes, it is edible. Today I was surfing to find a gilder's tip and ran across a site that featured a really beautifully garnished table. I was shocked! Think I'll spend the extra bucks on ribeyes though.
Posted by Mike Pipes (Member # 1573) on :
Well there's a whole new way to produce Adrienne's Golden Turd award!
By the way, Goldschlager is some good stuff!
Posted by Bruce Bowers (Member # 892) on :
Hmmmm... Pooping gold leaf.... Gives a whole new dimension to the the term " golden goose".... LOL!
Posted by KARYN BUSH (Member # 1948) on :
i for one would love to see gold spark-a-ly kaka...this brown color is getting old.
Posted by Tasmus (Member # 445) on :
Karyn---for a happy GREEEN color, try eating a whole box of crunch berries lol!
(don't ask me how I know that....but it might have something to do with having three little boys )
Barry
Posted by Kimberly Zanetti (Member # 2546) on :
Steve,
Tell her to get it from one of your suppliers (Esoteric maybe?) instead of one of her culinary sources. It will be cheaper. The culinary sources try and lead you to believe that they are selling special, edible food-grade gold leaf and charge you more. It's all the same stuff.
Posted by captain ken (Member # 742) on :
Gold is one of the only metals that will not be effected at all by the digestive system, most other metals i.e. copper, steel, brass... will be effected, I wasn't around but during the gold rush but alot of people would swallow the bits of gold they found so as to not get mugged for their loot, but then they would have to pan for it again in a few days! Posted by J.G. Kurtzman (Member # 1736) on :
Rumpelstilskin seemed to think it was benificial anywhere you wanted.
J.G. kurtzman
Posted by bronzeo (Member # 1408) on :
Gold shots, (vaccinations) are used frequently for arthrietis patients, and work very well. They are expensive at about 100.00+ a pop. I'm not sure is they are given intermusclular or interveiniously.
Posted by Bruce Bowers (Member # 892) on :
Ok... one more...
I guess it is true that one man's s*** is another man's treasure.... LOL!
I, for one, would like to see the pictures of the gold leaf cake.
[ January 24, 2003, 06:31 AM: Message edited by: Bruce Bowers ]
Posted by Bill Biggs (Member # 18) on :
My Dad used to delight in rubbing scrap gold leaf into his knuckles and making it disappear, He claimed it kept him from getting arthritis. Maybe it did, he lived to be 90 without ever having any. He always said that the Hindu's sprinkled gold on their food. I don't know but I have seen it dissolve into your pores so it couldn't be much of an effect on anything, except your pocketbook. LOL Bill
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