SC - butter
Terry Nutter
gfrose at cotton.vislab.olemiss.edu
Tue May 20 09:58:34 PDT 1997
"Sue Wensel" <swensel at brandegee.lm.com> writes:
> 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.
i sound like i'm beating a dead horse, "In the Domestroi...." nearly
every recipe which calls for sweetening, specifies honey. Indeed, i
cannot find a place where sugar is used at all! I cannot
say if this was the translator's (Carolyn Pouncy) choice, or
original. I imagine that it would depend on region. I don't know the
specifics for sugar cane, but it seems as though it is mostly grown in
humid zone 8 or warmer. (tropical climate)
here is what the online encyclopedia has to say about it:
> It is believed that sugarcane culture began in New Guinea and
> then gradually spread throughout the South Pacific, Southeast
> Asia, and India. Thereafter it spread to China and to the
> ancient Arab world, but sugar remained a scarce luxury in Europe.
> In the 15th and 16th centuries, however, European explorers and
> colonizers of the Caribbean and South American regions brought
> sugarcane cuttings with them, and once planted, the cuttings
> thrived in the warm, moist climate and productive soil. By the
> year 1600, sugar production in the subtropical and tropical
> Americas had become the world's largest and most lucrative
> industry.
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