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An Intro and Sweet Cubes of Jellied Milk

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Hi there! I'm Aelis de la Rose, Apprentice to Seamus O'Caellaigh (OL, OP, OS). I have been making bougie jello and pudding shots since around 2008. Oh, but not your average frat house jello shot with bottom-shelf vodka and back-of-the-drawer jello, oh no. Around here we do *Fancy*.  I've also been in the SCA since 2000, and met Seamus in...2010ish? I'm not sure what year, it's been a long time. I am a voice herald and a bard and I teach and coordinate things, and more recently have become Seamus' Apprentice (student in historical Arts and Sciences). My focus is in two closely-related areas: researching and replicating boozy desserts in history, and combining non-alcoholic historical desserts with modern recipes and techniques to remake them as historical desserts with a modern, often boozy, twist.  Before I started getting into the historical side of the shot and dessert making, I had an excel spreadsheet and some word documents to keep track of my jello, jelly,...