Tudor Fare this Christmas

Just a little commission someone asked me to do! I've made Tudor foods before and I was messaged and asked to make this new rustic board of cheeses, breads, fruit and meat pies. It's in one inch scale and everything was made by myself of course. The foods are polymer clay and mixed media, and the board is wood, hand-carved, stained and waxed.


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Enjoy the photos. The first photo shows a work-in-progress.

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Mountains of Bread and Cheese, please!

Do you remember when I posted about my new bread range (back here)? Well I have been soooo busy that I still haven't had time to photograph each new kind of bread and make them available at my online Hummingbird Miniatures Etsy Shop. But, I will do soon... honestly! So check back here or Facebook every so often.

Anyway, part of why I have been so busy? I had an order for 500 pieces of bread from a lady in Paris, and almost as many cheeses. It was a fun and all-consuming commission so I thought I'd share photos of it in progress on my blog for you all to see.

Keep checking back at this blog and the Facebook page if you want updates on the new Christmas 2013 range which will be coming soon....! Don't forget to click to 'follow' and 'like' so that you don't miss coupons and competitions which are available for blog followers and Facebook fans. :)

Cheese please!

With over 700 British cheeses made in the UK, boy did I miss English cheese when I lived in the US! Felt inspired to make some fun English cheese plates as part of my 'Best of British' range and here's some photos for you to see.
Stay tuned for glass-domed cheese boards to be added to my shop before long...
Find cheese at my online shop as well!





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Ploughman's Lunch... how festive!

Quite the British classic - the 'Ploughman's'. It's made up of bread, cheese, chutney and fruit. You can have other things in it as well such as pork pies / ham / crackers. This one's quite festive as it includes all kinds of English cheeses (and Welsh goats cheese), English chutney, pork pies, a bottle of red wine tied with silk bow, crackers, royal gala apples, a pear, green grapes, red grapes and bread.

Part of my Best of British Range. I photographed it in my Tudor setting because it's all fairly Tudor fare (apart from that bottle of Pinot Noir and modern chutney) - so it suits old and new scenes fairly well. Quite festive. Available at my online shop soon.







The chutney (along with everything else) is glued down, but I took this photo first because I wanted you to see how absolutely teeny it is! See below.





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A Round English Cheese Plate - for the Tudor home

Here's my second English Cheese Plate made as part of my Tudor Range, but works fine in a modern setting too. (See my other cheese plate here).

I adore cheese, so it was fun to make. More detailed than the other one as this one includes green and red grapes as well as bread, the mixed Welsh and English cheeses, Royal Gala apples and a little cheese knife. I'll start listing on my online shop soon....! (Hopefully today).









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English Cheese Plate - for the Tudor home...

Continuing my new Tudor Range, here's one of two English Cheese Plates with cheeses from England and Wales. I'll blog about the other cheese plate later today or tomorrow. See more of the Tudor Range here.

Click the images to see the list of cheeses included... Stinking Bishop, Cheddar, Stilton... etc!
Will be available at my online shop tomorrow.







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A Tudor Feast...

Being an avid historian, I was bound to launch a Tudor line of miniature foods! Just been taking my time as I've had so many other things on the go.

The Tudor period was between 1485-1603 and was a fairly exciting time (although it ended the House of Plantagenet which was much more interesting, I think). Tudor food didn't exactly make any gigantic culinary advances, although we started importing things like oranges and lettuce (which we didn't have before) and of course we had the arrival of the potato from South America.
Anyway... stopping before I bore people to death... the point is miniaturists seem particularly fond of Tudor food and so that's why I'm making food from this era. But you could just as easily use much of this range for miniature scenes of earlier (or later) periods in history.

My Tudor Range forms part of my new Best of British Collection... much more to come! Available at my online shop in 2 days.

Crayfish Stargazy Pie ~ a Cornish dish from the 16th century - still served in the UK today. (Note to Americans - we say crayfish, not crawfish in the UK! :) )



English Cheese Plate ~ featuring Royal Gala apples, bread, Welsh goat's cheese, Cheddar, Stinking Bishop, Stilton and a cheese knife.



Golden Pears ~ pears have been popular in Britain since they were brought to us with the Roman invasion. They were a favourite of Henry III. This miniature is one of my best - a soapstone dish of realistic pears with a one gilded pear among them. (A popular dinner party touch in mediaeval households).



Ploughman's Lunch ~ very traditionally English! A 'ploughman's' includes cheese, chutney, bread and fruit. This fancy one features little pork pies, Royal Gala apples, a pear, bread, English chutney, crackers, Welsh goat's cheese, Cheddar, Stinking Bishop, Stilton, red grapes, green grapes and a bottles of red wine.



Round English Cheese Plate ~ featuring Royal Gala apples, bread, Welsh goat's cheese, Cheddar, Stinking Bishop, Stilton, red grapes, green grapes and a cheese knife.

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