Re(2): SC - Re: sca-cooks V1 #124

Terry Nutter gfrose at cotton.vislab.olemiss.edu
Tue May 20 09:25:35 PDT 1997


Hi, Katerine here.  Derdriu asks:

>While honey is a popular SCA-alternate for sugar in recipes, I am beginning to
>doubt how much it really was used in period recipes.  Can anyone shed some
>light on this?

A long answer to this can be found at http://users/jtn/Articles/sugar.html.
The short version: in England, 13th-15th century, sugar is overwhelmingly
more common in the recipe corpus than honey.

Cheers,

- -- Katerine/Terry



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