SC - Hello & Questions

[Phil & Susan Troy]

>Hello
>Lady Rowan the Capricious here.
>
>I want to know if there are any kinds of cake
>type frostings or icings that were used in
>period cooking?
>
>Cheers,
>Rowan

Icing, yes. You find in sources like Gervase Markham and Kenelm Digby 
cake recipes that include instructions to sprinkle a cake with finely 
powdered sugar and put it back in the oven to glaze. This produces a 
hard-crack sugar shell.

I believe some cakes are sprinkled with rosewater first, but I could be 
confusing some vague memory here...

Adamantius